Striving for Excellence: Importance of Healthcare Quality and Informatics

                 Blog II: Understanding How to Manage Patient Safety Issues and Reports https://www.caregiverchampionadvocate.com/what-does-a-patient-advocate-actually-do/       How can you help with patient safety issues? Many organizations have found that there are unquiet ways to assist in managing how to report and ensure patient safety is conducted within the healthcare environment, however, the most impactful way patient safety events are prevented is through patient advocacy through family and caregivers. Patient advocacy is defined by the Institute of Health Improvement as an individual or group of individuals that are supporters, sponsors, or assistance in the welfare of a client (Plantemoli, 2021). These individuals are usually the patient's spouses, children, extended family, and or power of attorney, however, there are specific organizations that assist in the welfare of vulnerable individuals, such as children, the...

  Blog 1: Health and Safety Issue within the Hospital      Wonder if you or your loved one was faced with an error or overlook that can cause harm or even death and was never even reported? A major   issue that I have seen personally and has continue to be a constant concern is the increase prevalence of adverse events and lack of reporting. The purpose of reporting or creating an incident report, which is to identify a patient safety issue, with the goal to find the causality the issue and make measures of not happening again (Meyer, 2019).       Unfortunately, I have seen same incidents occur, with leaders not following up on incident reports or not making endeavors to prevent them. Some healthcare facilities focus on certain healthcare issues and forget about others for example, patient falls are reported always however, readmission rates to hospitals due to lack of nursing education or medication instruction is omitted (Meyer, 2019). ...