NUR 163 Week 3 Pre-Class Assignments 2023 update

163 Week 3 Pre-Class Student Worksheets Note to students: This class session builds on the concept of safety you learned in Nursing 150. The thinking skills you learned in Nursing 155 are in italics listed with the tasks. Reading assignments as per weekly outline. Complete these worksheets. You will share/use your work during class. The Concept of Safety Definition from Giddens: Safety is: 1. Freedom from accidental injury; ensuring patient safety involves the establishment of operational systems and processes that minimize the likelihood of errors and maximizes the likelihood of intercepting them when they occur. 2. Avoiding injuries to patients from the care that is intended to help them. 3. Safety standard: The healthcare environment should be safe for all patients, in all its processes, all of the time. Task Definition #1 incorporates both #2 and #3. For definition #1, explain what is meant by: "establishment of operational systems and processes that minimize the likelihood of errors and maximizes the likelihood of intercepting them when they occur." Explain with rationale: Preventing an injury as best as possible but if an injury was to occur the interception outweighs the likeliness for it to occur again. Task Now explain what is meant by: Safety has two dimensions