Wrong Patient

Wrong Patient

Within the health care system, medical errors have always found a safe place, co-existing since the beginning. Medical errors appear every day, in every hospital from all over the country. In fact, it has been estimated that medical errors kill more than a quarter million patients within the United States and injure millions. Adding them all, you probably have a third leading cause of death in the country (Bonifield & Cohen, 2012).

As a hospital administrator, the unwanted event that took place, are undeniably not acceptable. However, instead of blaming few individuals for the consequences, this “organizational accidents” are due ...