Question

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

sentinel event ;

an unexpected event happens in a heaith care settings , which can cause death or severe physical or psycological harm to the patient , other than natural course of patient illness.

examples of sentinel events

.patient suicide in health care settings .

. patient fall in health care settings.

.wrong site surgery .

. medication error .

. delay in treatment .

. operative or post operative complications .

. patient assult , rape , or homicide

. patient injury or death related to restrains .

health care workers are responsible for deliver good quality care to the patient . in order to achieve this ensure a safe ,effective ,timely ,efficient , equitable ,people centered care to each patient and family to meet a desired health out come.providing unwanted care , not providing necessary care or providing wrong care indicates poor quality of patient care.delivering poor qulity care adversly affect the patient heath like worsen the patient condition , prolonged hospital stay , incresing economic burden to the patient and family ,which leads to poor patient and family satisfaction towards health care system. low qulity health care servies affect the health progress of country by incresing morbidity and mortality and may cause economic burden to the country.