Question

Please make each answer is no fewer than 4 full sentences but no longer than 10 sentences. Long, run-on sentences will be considered as multiple sentences. Be clear and concise.

What are some examples of sentinel events?

Describe the impact of poor quality care on the individual, family, community, and the United States.

Create a core value statement.

Answer 1

Examples of sentinel events are:

patient falls from the bed, patient falls while walking, bed sores, blood transfusion error, surgery on wrong patient and wrong site, retaining of foreign object inside the body after surgery, medication errors, infants death.

Impact of poor quality of care on individual: dissatisfaction, frustration, anger, guilt, embarrassment, trust issues, injuries, fractures, impairments, long term disabilities. Loss of productivity, feeling of dependency, malnourishment.

Impact of poor quality of care on family:

Psychological distress, worry, stress, strain, Effect on interpersonal relationships and financial resources, pressure and burden on family, disruption in work.

Impact of poor quality of care in community:

Poor health care facilities leads to high morbidity and mortality rate, poor living conditions.

Impact of poor quality of care in United states:

Good health is the foundation of country's human capital and no country can afford low quality or unsafe health care, it also effects economic productivity of country. Therefore health care systems should focus on competence and follow the guidelines, policies and protocols to improve the health care quality.