Patient safety and standards
Health professionals must understand public safety and standards to know the best approaches to dealing with mistakes that may emerge. By understanding this, the professionals will be keen on those areas that may result in errors that are harmful to the patients. They can, therefore, concentrate on system delivery that will prevent such mistakes in the future by learning from those errors. It will also be very easy for professionals to build on a universal culture of safety.
Accepting the notion that mistakes are normal and all human err open space for policies that do not entirely blame health professionals for all errors. This idea exempts the expectation of the health officers of acting supernaturally in their lines of duty(Hendee,2001). The policies that support this idea suggests the establishment of a safer health system that is not too dependent on human beings. Not addressing the non-human source of error will see an increase in the number of these errors
(Rodziewicz & hipskind,2019). The notion discourages over-expectation from the public on the performance of physicians. The concerned policies suggest the incorporation of many other sectors in critical decision making. The public is cautioned against over expecting from health professionals who are underpaid and underresourced. It gives room for accepting the failure of medical equipment and machines.
A leader in a health system should be very considerate while taking punitive actions against medical officers who make mistakes. A thorough consideration of the condition under which the error occurred should be considered. It would be very unfair for one to expect a good person working in a bad system to produce good results(Hurghes,2011). It is, therefore, essential for any leader to ensure the system is good before thinking of mistakes done by humans.
References
Hendee, W. R. (2001). To err is human: Building a safer health system. Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, 12(1), P112-P113. doi:10.1016/s1051-0443(01)70072-3
Mulloy, D. F., & HURGHES, R. G. (2011). A preventable medical error.
Rodziwiecz, T. L., & Hipskind, J. E. (2019). Medical Error Prevention.