TOPIC for Change: Improving safety for healthcare staff in a busy inner city Emergency Room setting. Design a small test of change in daily work (using an experiential learning method such as Plan-Do-Study-Act from IHI). You should have 3 sections to your course project: 1.Who has the problem, where, and why is it important? 2.What is the change you want to make? Some ideas of how you would accomplish this and who you might involve. 3.Projected evaluation of change, what do you see happening. Any barriers? Pro’s/ Con
Introduction :
An emergency room is a location of extremely high activity level and involves a very complex, hazardous work with interactions between the ailing emergency patient, the doctor, nurses, and the intensity of emergency. Different studies of such hazardous work has produced different results and insights and have contributed immensely in the in the improvement of safety in these fields o, of the personnel involved .They have led to different valuable alterations in mechanisms of the process and involves electronic reporting, analysis of safety of the staff, communication etc. Human errors have been significant in contribution to many undesirable effects and hence proper management of human errors also becomes essential.
Occurrence of preventable errors on part of hospital staff in emergency room
There are considerable implications of preventable errors that were produced by human error to patients in the emergency room. .Different epidemiological studies have identified significant rates of preventable error occurring in almost all stages of care within emergency