The next section is Safety and Infection control.
These include:
Protecting clients and health care personnel from health and environmental hazards.
Accident / Error / Injury prevention.
Reporting of incident / event / irregular occurrence / variance
Emergency response plan
Safe use of equipment
Ergonomic principles
Security plan
Handling hazardous and infectious materials
Precautions
Surgical Asepsis
Use of restraints
We’ll divide the topics into three posts.
Today we’ll talk about –
Accident / Error / Injury prevention.
Reporting of incident / event / irregular occurrence / variance
Saunders does not really have any sections dedicated to this but here is one of my favorite resources on the web.
https://www.registerednursing.org/nclex/accident-error-incident-prevention/
Incident reports –
https://www.registerednursing.org/nclex/reporting-incident-event-irregular-occurrence-variances/
Another good overview of incident reports.
