31^st Global Nursing and Healthcare Congress

Patient Safety and Health Care

Patient safety is a critical component of health care and is defined as a patient's freedom from harm. The provision of health care can cause unneeded or prospective harm. Along with accessibility, acceptability, efficacy, efficiency, and people centeredness, patient safety is one of the quality of care characteristics. It encompasses a variety of factors that are critical to providing high-quality health care. It's true.

It is about injection safety, blood safety, pharmaceutical safety, and safe surgical care and childbirth. Medical equipment safety, as well as organ, tissue, and cell transit and donation, are all important considerations. It's also about biomedical research. Waste management, infection prevention in healthcare settings, and much more. Failure to deliver a safe product care is attributed to unsafe clinical practices, unsafe processes and poor systems and processes.

Patient safety is becoming more widely acknowledged as a worldwide concern, with WHO Member States agreeing on a World Health Assembly resolution on patient safety in 2002. Patient safety and quality of care have become increasingly important aspects of Universal Health Coverage in recent years (UHC). As a result, patient safety policies and interventions cannot be considered stand-alone efforts or implemented in isolation. They must be in line with overall health objectives, rooted in broader policies, and integrated into existing initiatives.