please answer each post separately. 1.The IOM recommendation 5.1 and 5.2 puts th

please answer each post separately.
1.The IOM recommendation 5.1 and 5.2 puts the biggest impact on patient safety. These recommendations require serious errors to be disclosed publicly and not so serious errors be reported internally however holding the person responsible for the error accountable; even though the center for Health believes these errors should not ever occur. However there are legal actions that may occur when reported it also prohibits under reporting as well. If medical errors, no matter how large or small, are carefully eliminated from the process then this would create a better report and a better rating for the hospital or clinic overall. I believe these have the highest impact because it creates awareness and allows the individual to recall their errors and improve from experience.
According to US healthcare errors no matter how small they may be should always be reported; however, they don’t have to always be disclosed. The disclosure of the errors depends on the seriousness of the offense created. “It involves the prevention and mitigation of harm caused by errors of omission or commission in healthcare, and the establishment of operational systems and processes that minimize the likelihood of errors and maximize the likelihood of intercepting them when they occur.” (www.psnet.ahrq.gov) This process involves the person being more careful and compassionate about their work and being more attentive to the patent that they are taking care of at the time. In healthcare we have to be proactive about situations and people’s loved ones and make sure we are handling them as if it were our very own family. We also have to make sure we are back on track in situations.
The IOM report for errors is a good resource for incoming personnel entering the medical field. This would be a great way to study the errors being done and learn from those before even seeing a patient.
Reference:
Patient Safety 101: The fundamentals. 1 May 2023. Retrieved from www.psnet.ahrq.gov.
2.There are many factors that has led to the nations epidemic of medical errors. medical errors can be very costly. To achieve a better safety record The IOM 1999 report recommends a four tier approach. The first approach is establishing a national focus to create leadership, research, tools, and protocols to enhance the knowledge base about safety. Healthcare is decades behind in its attention to ensuring basic safety. the second recommendation is identifying and learning from errors by developing a nationwide public mandatory reporting system and by encouraging health care organizations and practitioners to develop and participate in voluntary reporting systems. Voluntary reporting systems will provide an important complement to the mandatory system. The third recommendation is raising performance standards and expectations for improvements in safety through the actions of oversight organizations, professional groups and group purchaser of health care. The process of developing standards also helps to form expectations for safety among providers and consumers. I feel the third recommendation provides the greatest impact on patient safety, because setting and enforcing standards for patient safety through regulatory mechanisms can define minimum performance levels for health professionals and the tools they use to care for patients. The last recommendation is implementing safety systems in health care organizations to ensure safe practices at the delivery level. Medication errors occur frequently yet many organizations are not making use of known systems for improving safety. (IOM, 1999)
reference
Institute of medicine. To Err is Human; building a safer health system. 1999 November. Shaping the future for health.Retrieved from: www.nap.nationalacademies.org