NURS3335 Discussion Environmental and Occupational Health/Human Factors
NURS3335 Discussion Environmental and Occupational Health/Human Factors
NURS3335 Discussion Environmental and Occupational Health/Human Factors
The role of Human Factors in healthcare cannot be overstated.
Review the videos you watched this week on the subject and think about your own experiences and what you learned from them.
Daughter LDI Louise Batz speaks about her mother’s belief that patients and their families should be an integral part of the healthcare team in the video below.
Preventable medical errors are made more likely by a lack of collaboration, a lack of knowledge, and a lack of technology, all of which are discussed in the LDI Louise Batz video.
Healthcare errors can be attributed to human factors.
In either your professional or personal life, describe what you have seen.
In order to improve healthcare, how can patients and their families be included in the healthcare team?
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Hospitalized for pneumonia in June 2011 was Alvin, an end-stage fibrosis patient with terminal illness.
In addition to powerful antibiotics and steroids, Alvin’s doctor, a lung disease specialist at a prestigious academic medical center, gave him 100% oxygen, but his condition quickly worsened.
Alvin decided to forego life support and spend his final days at home with his family rather than undergo intubation and a mechanical ventilator.
Morphine was prescribed to his family, but they were given no instructions on how to administer it, and several pharmacies refused to fill the prescription.
Alvin’s family discovered that despite the hospital’s orders, the oxygen supply was insufficient for his needs.
To get Alvin back to the hospital, the EMTs who took Alvin home had only one suggestion:
The family, attempting to honor his wishes, refused.
A few hours after leaving the hospital, Alvin was in excruciating pain and struggling for air.
Alvin’s family had to hire a private-duty nurse to help them care for him in his final hours because hospice workers were off duty on a Saturday night.
After he died, a hospice nurse arrived, apologized, and instructed his family on how to properly dispose of the remaining morphine vial.
When it comes to patient-centered care, Alvin’s case serves as a reminder of the importance of a patient-centered care team that includes family members, clinicians, and other healthcare providers working together to overcome system complexity and poorly aligned incentives (Winakur, 2012).
Care for patients is a full-time job for health care professionals in an increasingly complex, sluggish, and stressful environment.
Patients’ well-being is their primary concern, but this is not always supported by the structure, incentives, and culture in which they work.
As a patient-centered health care system, a learning health care system puts patients and their families at the center and empowers them to design and implement the learning process.
It is possible to significantly improve health, the quality of care received by patients and their families, as well as the satisfaction with the system as a whole and the economy as a whole, when all parties involved are fully engaged and actively involved.
In order to cross the Quality Chasm, the health care system must put patients first, but this goal is often not met (IOM, 2001).
There has been little progress in patient-centered care since the Quality Chasm’s call to action was issued more than a decade ago, and patients still have a difficult time navigating the health care system.
Because of the increasing complexity of the system, patient engagement becomes increasingly important as a means of making sure that patients can find the right care for their individual characteristics, needs and preferences.
Patients and clinicians must be involved in order to provide the best possible care in these situations.
Expertise in treatment and intervention options, as well as possible outcomes, is provided by clinicians.
With the help of patients’ loved ones, doctors can determine which treatments are best suited for a patient’s unique situation and preferences.
Both sources of information are necessary to make an informed decision about a patient’s care.
A patient-centered approach to healthcare does not mean simply agreeing to every request from the patients.
As a result, it requires a patient-centered approach in which the clinician and patient work together to understand each other’s needs and establish a dialogue about the evidence and decisions in play (Epstein et al., 2010).
In order to provide patient-centered care, it is necessary for the patient, family, and care team to be involved in the decision-making process and to consider all aspects of the patient’s care.
Learned health care systems can help fill in some of the voids in the US healthcare system’s focus on the needs of patients.
A vision for how the health care system could be improved in this regard is laid out in the first chapter, and the chapter sums up the benefits of moving toward that vision.
Finally, the chapter examines the ways in which this knowledge can be applied at various levels of health care systems.
There is now a discussion of community-based health care and how it can be used to include stakeholders that are not traditionally part of the health care system.
Final recommendations are made for achieving an inclusive health care system that includes patients and their families and their communities.
As a learning health care system incorporates patients, families, and the general public, the discussion focuses on ways to improve health and health care.