PATIENT SAFETY AND NURSING QUALITY

Patient Safety and Nursing Quality

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Patient Safety and Nursing Quality

Introduction

Patient safety is crucial for the nurses as this will help them to deliver quality services. Caudill (2001) argues that those nurses who care for their patient have their patients more satisfied as compare to those who less care about the safety of patient. In this connection McGrath & Hillier (2002) argues that most of the patients ask for the assistance of nurse in order to get well soon. Although, nurses can serve well, if they follow the standard code and procedures set for any particular services. This study in this regard will attempt to answer several questions in order to assess how easy/difficult is for the nurses to find policies and procedures for any particular practices? Did the registered nurses know where to find the policy? And is the policy based on evidence? In order to answer these questions, RNs performing the identified procedure would be examined to reveal the extent to which nurses follow the identified procedure and why RNs don't follow or deviate from the policies. As there are so many procedures and identifying each and every policy to answer the question would not be feasible that is why pain management has been selected so that the study can set its direction in order to provide concrete argument to answer each and every question, but it is pertinent to describe what pain management is, so that the context of the policy could easily swallowed by senses.

Pain Management

Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience, associated with existing or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage. Pain management covers every pain which is being experienced by an individual during his/er life cycle, that is from birth to death. Continual ache, specifically in the back and in the head, plagues a considerable per cent of the populace. (Toombs and Kral, 2005) That hurting condition could be traced back to harm or perhaps to an ailment. Whatsoever the cause, the agony that it involves can disturb the life of an individual, and to get rid of various forms of pain patients are ready to take every measures which can help them get rid of such pain. Mostly, people refer to nursing care in order to avoid any kind of complications. Persons having a tough time with that recurring ailment as a rule should consult medical or health care providers for ways of allaying the agonizing ache. An individual might end up being dependent on these anti-ache medicines which make matters worse. That spurred nursing practitioners to properly take care of each and every patient they attend, so that they can spend normal life again. That has brought forth an evolution of pain management medical centers. (McGrath & Hillier, 2002) An option has been given to continual pain sufferers. Physical rehabilitation offers alternative ways to manage pain. Pain Management has been significantly and generally associated with elderly individuals. Some elderly people are helped with public ...