Question

Case study: Electronic Healthcare System Issues

A group of nursing students are discussing client safety during a clinical experience. The clinical instructor mentions that the hospital is interested in addressing The Joint Commission’s patient safety goals that are associated with the use of health information technology.

1. Which Joint Commission safety goals are directly related to health information technology?
2. How can a group of nursing students impact the recommendations concerning alarm safety cited by the Joint Commission?

Answer 1

The joint commission's patient goals directly related to health information technology are:

• Correct patient identification
• Improve staff communication
• Identify patient safety risks

The newly added students are well updated about the technical advancements and it's impact on patients safety. These advantages let them have a good impact on judging and influencing the recommendations.

They can suggest new methods or ideologies which they tare better this context and that will ensure the patient safety.

They can report a faulty working instrument or technology and thereby help the authority and patient to have a better instrument or System there.

They can also easily share the views with the patients amd understand their ideas and thereby help making it better.

The nursing students will have enough time to understand the efficiencynof a certain alarm and point out any disadvantage or faulty machinery. It's audibility and signal can also be re checked. Alarms which has been turned off unexpectedly and similar events can be understood easily by students.

These students will also have plenty of new raw ideas and ideologies which can help improve the whole program.

Likewise, there are several tils which can help improve the joint committee guidelines