Aspects on Patient Safety in Critical Care Unit

Mohammed, Hanan Mohammed

doi:10.21608/tsnj.2018.71043

Aspects on Patient Safety in Critical Care Unit

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Hanan Mohammed Mohammed

Assistant Professor of Medical-Surgical Nursing Faculty of Nursing, Ain Shams University, Egypt

10.21608/tsnj.2018.71043

Abstract

Safety culture is a complex phenomenon that is not clearly understood by hospital leaders, thus making it difficult to operationalize. We found senior leadership accountability key to an organization-wide culture of safety. Ensuring patient safety is becoming increasingly important for intensive care unit practitioners. The intensive care unit is particularly prone to medical errors because of the complexity of the patients, interdependence of the practitioners, and dependence on team functioning. Workload, emotional stability, following safety precautions and lack of drug availability problems were found that lead to lack of the patients‟ safety in the ICU.

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