Promote patient safety in your Nursing team
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Patient safety is defined as “the absence of preventable harm to a patient and reduction of risk of unnecessary harm associated with healthcare to an acceptable minimum”. [1]
Nevertheless, to achieve this status, it is important to continuously improve competencies, skills, and attitudes, and align them with teamwork, mistake discussions, and trust.
Advancing Patient Safety: Empowering Nursing Teams
In any professional area, mistakes should never be hidden from patients, families, or colleagues. As the ‘Swiss cheese’ model illustrates, this might happen when a set of ‘holes’ is aligned. In other words, when the framework, the technical system, the patient, and the healthcare professionals all end up in the same direction. [2]
Sharing information, insights, and resources to facilitate seamless coordination of care is essential to prevent mistakes from happening. However, the greatest tip for continuous improvement and balanced working relationships is to understand what lessons we can all take from each situation.
Let me elaborate!
Whenever you or your teammate identifies or recognizes a mistake:
- Don’t immediately focus on the problem but on the solution (treat and help the patient)
- Give space for discussing mistakes and what guided the professional to it. Enhance a flexible and open environment between all coworkers is the team’s responsibility
- Identify the main improvements to prevent this mistake from being repeated
Remember: Don’t focus on the person! That further analysis is your leader’s responsibility.
Don’t miss information / Build trust
Treat with empathy and build trust with your patients.
Information is the key to preparing and providing the treatment plan. Whether obtained through complementary diagnostic tests or dialoguing with the patient, all information is essential and crucial for healthcare professionals and your team.
By building an emotional bridge between you and the patient. Showing a comprehensive attitude and respectful personality, you will certainly provide the best care to your patients. No matter their background or cultural influences.
Please always take into consideration the ethical and deontological codes. Safety is also important to prevent influenced choices and decisions.
Complement theory with Simulation-Based Education
Nursing involves making quick and accurate decisions in complex situations. For this reason, not always is easy to mimic a real-life situation based only on theory or applying manikins for training. You need to deliver dynamic learning experiences!
Through the help of the Virtual Patient Simulator, you will access realistic clinical scenarios with varying levels of acuity, allowing current and future Nursing professionals to apply critical thinking skills and make evidence-based decisions. They can assess patient conditions, prioritize interventions, and anticipate potential complications, enhancing their clinical judgment and problem-solving abilities.
Nursing involves making quick and accurate decisions in complex situations. For this reason, not always is easy to mimic a real-life situation based only on theory or applying manikins for training. You need to deliver dynamic learning experiences!
Through the help of the Virtual Patient Simulator, you will access realistic clinical scenarios with varying levels of acuity, allowing current and future Nursing professionals to apply critical thinking skills and make evidence-based decisions. They can assess patient conditions, prioritize interventions, and anticipate potential complications, enhancing their clinical judgment and problem-solving abilities.
Virtual Patient Simulators like Body Interact offer immersive, engaging, and realistic learning experiences. Represent an innovative platform to refine clinical skills, enhance patient safety, and ultimately improve healthcare outcomes.
From current to future healthcare professionals, all individuals benefit from complement theory with simulation-based learning. And you need to start today preparing the future of healthcare.
Body Interact for Nursing
With tools and strategies to standardize processes, provide better insights, and empower time-strapped clinicians, Body Interact Nursing solutions aim to help reduce these barriers so that patients can safely and equitably receive the best care everywhere.
