Patient Safety

One of the country’s largest health systems, Ascension, has spent years slashing positions. As a result, they were flat-footed when the pandemic hit. At a hospital outside Flint, Michigan, chronic understaffing has resulted in disastrous effects. Patients suffered lying in dried feces, as robots replaced nursing assistants who would otherwise be with mentally impaired...

Patient safety means the way in which hospitals, clinics, physicians, nurses, and other healthcare organizations and professionals protect their patients from errors, injuries, accidents, and infections. Statistics show that every year, one out of every 25 patients develops an infection that didn’t have to happen while in the hospital. A Medicare patient has a...

A second opinion is defined as a physician other than your regular provider who reviews your medical records and condition to provide a diagnosis. This second opinion may be the same as your regular provider’s, or it may differ. Two physicians in the same area of practice may have two different diagnoses or varying...

A Tennessee nurse was recently on trial for reckless homicide after an error of administering a medication killed a woman. Last week, the criminal case of 38-year-old RaDonda Vaught, a nurse at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, who injected a patient with a powerful paralytic drug rather than a mild sedative in...

Medical professionals, such as doctors, nurses, health aides, and technicians frequently suffer from extreme work responsibilities. These demands can cause sleep deprivation, physical pain, fatigue, and intense work-related stress from nonstop risks when exposed to illness, trauma, and death. These people are not unlike many others with stress and unreasonable demands who cope with...