Patient Safety

Patient safety is a need that is very important, and Joint Commission has established patient safety goals for 2013.  Most patient mishaps are preventable and prevention starts with nursing care and properly informing the patient and their family members.  Creating an environment that promotes patient safety and encourages prevention of injury and infection is the key to success.

 There are many nursing diagnoses that fall under safety.

Nursing Diagnoses:

• Body temperature, altered, risk for 
• Environmental interpretation syndrome, impaired Health maintenance, altered 
• Home maintenance management, impaired 
• Hyperthermia 
• Hypothermia 
• Infection, risk for 
• Injury, risk for 
• Perioperative positioning injury, risk for 
• Physical mobility, impaired 
• Poisoning, risk for 
• Protection, altered 
• Self-mutilation, risk for 
• Skin integrity, impaired 
• Skin integrity, impaired, risk for 
• Suffocation, risk for 
• Thermoregulation, ineffective 
• Tissue integrity, impaired 
• Trauma, risk for 
• Violence, (actual)/risk for

Watch the video below and pick out one patient safety measure addressed.  Talk about why it is important and what you can do to improve patient safety in that area.