Obstacles To Patient Safety
Standard Economic Theory Doesn’t Apply
The standard theory of how markets work is the model of supply and demand. That model has several notable features: 1. The main interested parties are the buyers and sellers in the market. 2. Buyers are good judges of what they get from sellers. 3. Buyers pay sellers directly for […]
Normalisation of Deviance
Social normalisation of deviance means that people within the organization become so much accustomed to a deviant behavior that they don’t consider it as deviant, despite the fact they exceed their own rules for the elementary safety. People grow more accustomed to the deviant behavior the more it occurs . […]
Help!
On World Patient Safety Day (17th Sept 2019) the World Health Organisation stated ‘at least 5 people die every minute because of unsafe care.’ The issue only appears to be getting worse. Yet we’ve designed our hospitals on the premise that as doctors and nurses we don’t make mistakes – […]
Greed & Corruption
Change
By Mokshadha Shibnairain A change can only be termed as one if it led to a novel cascade of events, decisions, situations or circumstances. Letʼs look at some of them: # 1. Personal growth You grow and learn new things every time something changes. You discover new insights about different […]
Vivid 0.5% Chlorhexidine antiseptic gets TGA Approval
Over the past few years Perrigo has been listening the voices of front line staff and have gone to great lengths to ensure their chlorhexidine antiseptic is vividly coloured to distinguish it from other solutions for injection. Within Australia their product has recently received TGA approval. They produce 2 colours […]
Crossing The Chasm
Perhaps ergonomics is about designing the environment, of which we are an inextricable part, in order to achieve desired outcomes. Improved patient care definitely to be desired. ‘If enough people in healthcare watched Dr Terry Fairbanks presentations ergonomics would be adopted and patient care would dramatically improve.’ I put this […]
International Standardisation of the Hospital Emergency Number
If you happen to be in a hospital please help find out what their internal Hospital Emergency Number is. It might be on one of the internal phones like this: or sometimes on a staff members identification badge. Simply click on this link and enter the number onto the map. […]
NSW Hospital Emergency Number standardisation
‘Cost to standardise only A$250 per hospital’ If you know the internal Hospital Emergency Number for any of the Private hospitals in NSW please could you let us know by adding to this map: When the website opens click on the yellow ‘+’ sign to geolocate the hospital. If the […]