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Applying Library Research Skills
Learners Name
Capella University
NHS4000: Developing a Health Care Perspective
Instructor Name
August, 2020
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Applying Library Research Skills
With the advent of new technologies and treatment methods, health care organizations
are facing many challenges. Patient safety is one such challenge that needs to be addressed not
only by health care professionals but also by other stakeholders in the business. Ensuring patient
safety is essential for providing quality health care.
As a medical transcriptionist, I am responsible for of
health care professionals into text. Although I am not directly involved in treating patients, any
errors that occur during the transcription process could result in inaccurate documentation of
medical data. For example, one of my colleagues documented the dosage of Lasix as 400 mg
instead of 40 mg in a discharge summary. When the health care professional who had dictated
the report reviewed it, he was able to spot the error in the dosage and correct it, which helped
prevent the patient from having a dangerous reaction to the incorrect dosage. This incident
helped me realize the importance of preparing accurate documents for ensuring patient safety
and delivering quality care. I developed a keen interest in issues relating to patient safety ever
since.
Identifying Academic Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles Using
Summon, a search engine that searches across Capella University Library’s databases, I accessed
articles that are carried by databases such as ProQuest Central and PubMed Central. I used
keywords such as health care issues, patient safety, and quality of care to search for peerreviewed literature relevant to patient safety. Using the advanced search option, I limited my
search to scholarly and , choosing journal article as the publication type,
medicine and nursing as the subjects, and articles published within the last five years as the
publication date range.
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Assessing Credibility and Relevance of Information Sources
To ensure credibility, I selected that were published within
the past five years. I made sure that the selected sources were published by authors who were
well-known in the field of health care and had extensive professional experience.
To ensure that the chosen sources of information were relevant to the topic, I confirmed
that they contained accepted facts and opinions on issues relating to patient safety and quality
care. I also checked whether each information source had a clearly defined purpose and
contained pertinent information about patient safety and quality care.
Annotated Bibliography
Kronick, R., Arnold, S., & Brady, J. (2016, August 2). Improving safety for hospitalized patients:
Much progress but many challenges remain. The JAMA Network, 316(5), 489490.
https://jamanetwork-com.library.capella.edu/journals/jama/fullarticle/2528945 This
article provides a viewpoint on the progress that hospitals have made toward reducing
patient harm and understand the factors that have led to this progress. The authors cite
reports released by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the
National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) to analyze the occurrence of issues relating
to patient safety in hospitals. The authors hypothesize that improvement in health care
safety for hospitalized patients may have been possible because of reasons such as an
awareness of the importance of improving safety culture with evidence-based
suggestions. The authors conclude by expressing the need for finding ways to maintain or
accelerate the rate of decline in adverse events relating to patient harm. They believe that
investing in patient safety research programs and ensuring that patient safety remains a
high priority for hospital leadership teams can help reduce the number of adverse events.
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This article is relevant to patient safety because it examines evidence of reduction in
patient harms in hospitals and offers approaches to reduce such harms.
Morris, S., Otto, N. C., & Golemboski, K. (2013). Improving patient safety and healthcare
quality in the 21st centuryCompetencies required of future medical laboratory science
practitioners. Clinical Laboratory Science, 26(4), 200204. https://searchproquestcom.library.capella.edu/docview/1530677721/fulltextPDF/CF6F9C5B900402CP
Q/1?acc ountid=27965
In this article, the authors express their concern about health care professionals,
particularly medical laboratory science (MLS) practitioners, being insufficiently trained
to achieve the five core competencies that the Institute of Medicine (IOM) identified in
2002. The authors discuss ways to incorporate patient safety practices and concepts in the
MLS curricula to ensure that future MLS practitioners are well-versed in the
abovementioned competencies identified by the IOM. The authors conclude that by
focusing on the aims and competencies identified by the IOM, future practitioners will be
better equipped to deal with patient safety concerns while practicing MLS. This article
was chosen because it offers a solution for dealing with patient safety issues and explains
how patient safety concepts can be incorporated in the curricula for courses pertaining to
health care, such as MLS, to enable future health care practitioners to provide effective
health care.
Parand, A., Dopson, S., Renz, A., & Vincent, C. (2014). The role of hospital managers in quality
and patient safety: A systematic review. BMJ Open, 4(9). http://dx.doi.org/
10.1136/bmjopen-2014-005055
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This article provides a systematic review of available empirical literature to understand
how health care managers are involved in delivering quality health care and ensuring
patient safety. Based on the literature review, the authors suggest that board-level
managers should spend more than 25% of their time on patient safety and quality to
ensure positive outcomes; however, most of the reviewed studies indicate that they spend
much less time than that. The authors also present a quality management input process
output (IPO) model, a framework that will help managers function effectively and
achieve health care quality and safety. The authors conclude that there is a need to make
certain changes in hospitals to ensure the active involvement of managers in quality
improvement. The article is relevant to patient safety because it discusses the role of
health care managers in influencing patient safety and quality care outcomes and also
proposes a model to help managers understand this role.
Ulrich, B., & Kear, T. (2014). Patient safety and patient safety culture: Foundations of excellent
health care delivery. , 41(5), 447456, 505.
https://searchproquestcom.library.capella.edu/docview/1617932572/fulltextPDF/1486CC
30B3624B3CPQ/1?ac countid=27965
This article provides a general understanding of the concepts of patient safety and patient
safety culture. The authors explain that the health care system is complex and patient
safety is the responsibility of every individual in a health care organization. They discuss
some tools that can be used to measure patient safety culture, for example, the Safety
Attitudes Questionnaire and the Patient Safety Culture Improvement Tool. They also
examine several strategies to encourage a patient safety culture, such as ensuring that
patient safety is given as much importance as other core business functions. This article
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was chosen because it offers strategies for preventing adverse events relating to patient
safety and emphasizes the importance of teamwork within a health care organization to
ensure safe patient care.
Learnings from the Research
I gathered important facts and scholarly opinions about patient safety by going through
peer-reviewed journal articles. This research enriched my knowledge about patient safety. For
example, after reading the article on improving safety for hospitalized patients by Kronick et al.
(2016), I learned about patient harms (such as catheter-associated urinary tract infections and
pressure ulcers) that I was unaware of before this research. Further, by creating an annotated
bibliography, I was able to build a repository of scholarly resources relating to patient safety.
This will make it easier for me to choose relevant resources while writing the paper on issues
concerning patient safety.
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References
Kronick, R., Arnold, S., & Brady, J. (2016, August 2). Improving safety for hospitalized patients:
Much progress but many challenges remain. The JAMA Network, 316(5), 489490.
https://jamanetwork-com.library.capella.edu/journals/jama/fullarticle/2528945
Morris, S., Otto, N. C., & Golemboski, K. (2013). Improving patient safety and healthcare
quality in the 21st centuryCompetencies required of future medical laboratory science
practitioners. Clinical Laboratory Science, 26(4), 200204. https://searchproquestcom.library.capella.edu/docview/1530677721/fulltextPDF/CF6F9C5B900402CP
Q/1?acc ountid=27965
Parand, A., Dopson, S., Renz, A., & Vincent, C. (2014). The role of hospital managers in quality
and patient safety: A systematic review. BMJ Open, 4(9). http://dx.doi.org/
10.1136/bmjopen-2014-005055
Ulrich, B., & Kear, T. (2014). Patient safety and patient safety culture: Foundations of excellent
health care delivery. Nephrology Nursing Journal, 41(5), 447456, 505.
https://searchproquestcom.library.capella.edu/docview/1617932572/fulltextPDF/1486CC
30B3624B3CPQ/1?ac countid=27965
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