Describe best practices that are in place that promote patient, community, and provider safety in the practice setting. In doing so, be sure to include methods to identify and prevent verbal, physical, and psychological harm to patients and staff.

1 Describe the best practices that are in place that promote patient ,community and provider safety in the practice setting

patient

• use monitoring technology to help nurses and physicians verify that they are following the right procedures for the right patient and that they are keeping on top of each patient needs, technology such as bed alarms notify the staff if the patient falls or barcode system that verify medication
• verifying all medical procedures to help prevent surgical errors by allowing many member of a surgical team to call a time out to verify the details of the surgery

provider safety

• provision of the protective equipments to the health care providers for infection prevention
• guidelines on proper disposal of medical waste within the hospital example disposal of sharps in the safety boxes

community

proper medical disposal policies through incineration to promote safety in the community

advocating for infection prevention through proper handwashing guidelines

2 How to prevent physical,psychological and verbal harm to patients and care givers

• through setting up a system for the reporting of incidents and injuries and ensure all staff and the patients are aware of and encouraged to report all incidents
• conducting workplace inspections to assess potential for workforce verbal,psychological or physical harm
• by surveying staff and patients in confidence and ask about incidences that may have occurred or other matter that had potential to become of harm to them
• promote the fact that harassment and bullying will not be tolerated in the health care setting
• developing and implementing grievance procedures to allow reporting and action incase of physical,psychological or verbal harm in the healthcare setting