Operationalizing Preventing Harm

Operationalizing Preventing Harm

Preventing harm requires health care organizations to deliberately design organizational programs focused on patient safety.

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Identify and describe two operational considerations for patient safety (for example, in the areas of safety development programs, information technology, risk management, safe medication practices, et cetera).
Analyze the benefits and challenges of implementing each of the operational considerations you identified.
Identify the opportunity cost of not implementing the operational consideration.
Cite your sources using current APA style.

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Operationalizing Preventing Harm

One of the significant considerations for patient safety is safe medication practices. In most cases, patients have suffered following the wrong prescription, overdose, or under-dose. Also, others have experienced the following toxicity associated with certain drugs (Issel& Wells, 2017). 

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