Professional Liability of a Healthcare Management in a Hospital Setting



Professional Liability of a Healthcare Management in a Hospital Setting

Introduction

The main purpose of this paper is to make analysis on the most common error of a health care management. The most common error through which the healthcare management might be liable for the negligence is the error of poor documentation.

Problem

Documentation is an issue of importance to nursing for many reasons. Quality patient care depends upon complete and accurate information among care givers. Documentation is also an essential component of the accreditation standards and legal requirements imposed on health care organizations. In addition, future costing of nursing care will be dependent upon correct documentation and the ability to link clinical information with financial and administrative data (Bloom, 2010). Nursing errors in documenting the notes file and care files is of great importance. It has been a serious concern for all the health institutions. The number of complaints are continuously increasing from the clinical incidents and it becomes difficult for the administration to defend these complaints.

Why this is a Problem?

The role of nursing documentation is very important in the health record keeping. It is the nurse's responsibility that they should pay proper attention while proper documenting the care files and notes files. There are different types of errors committed by nurses while maintaining the documents of patients. The main problems for such errors are as followed:

Poor record keeping

Poor time management

Compromised fluid management

Lack of training for proper documentation to the student nurses

Poor planning of care

Ad hoc recording of vital observations

Incomplete admission records

Failing systems of communications

Thus, because of these issues nurse often fail to maintain proper patient's documentation and cause this error. Humans make mistakes for a variety of reasons often related to the work context. Nurses and other health professionals are among the workforce with the best trained and most committed to the quality of their work. The issue is not that the presence of ill health workers in health care systems, but that of the perfectibility of the systems themselves (Hole, 2004).

What might explain why the problem occurred?

Following are the main reasons related to the improper and poor documentation of care files and file notes by nurses.

Lack of knowledge of correct dose

Lack of knowledge that more than one dose of medicine

Available sources of information inadequate

Place a drug in the wrong place (shelf, drawer, etc..), Which leads to people who do not read labels mistakes

Do not read the label

Labeling and / or improper packaging by the Pharmaceutical Industry

Errors in mathematical calculations of the dose

Orders received verbal and / or registered trademarks of incomplete and / or wrong (Hendrick, 2000)

Solutions to the Problem

In order to solve the problem of poor documentation in nursing files, it is very necessary that the nurses should understand their roles and responsibilities. Following are the key components that can be helpful for the nurses in order to solve the problems of poor documentation.

Leadership and Management

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