Nursing 4320A/B Chapter 6: 4320 Week 6 Reading-Patient Safety

• School: Western University
• Department: Nursing
• Course: Nursing 4320A/B
• Professor: Mary- Anne Davies

Document Summary

Patient safety is the reduction and mitigation of unsafe acts within the health-care system as well as through the use of best practices shown to lead to optimal patient outcomes. For a nurse it means more than that, it means: The canadian nurses association (cna) believes that providing for patient safety involves a wide range of actions at the level of the individual nurse, the profession, the interprofessional team, the health-care organization and the healthcare system. Cna believes that the nursing shortage, inappropriate staffing practices and the understaffing and underskilling of health-care services pose a significant threat to patient safety and contribute to incidents of failure to rescue. Patient safety cannot be achieved without system accountability and system competence. Efforts to analyze and reduce adverse events are most effective when such events are viewed as system failures. Patients have the right to know when an adverse event has occurred in their care.