Workarounds and Their Implications for Patient Safety

Workarounds and Their Implications for Patient Safety

What is a workaround? Identify a workaround (specific to technology used in a hospital setting) that you have used or perhaps seen someone else use, and analyze why you feel this risk-taking behavior was chosen over behavior that conforms to a safety culture. What are the risks? Are there benefits? Why or why not?
Discuss the current patient safety characteristics used by your current workplace or clinical site. Identify at least three aspects of your workplace or clinical environment that need to be changed with regard to patient safety (including confidentiality), and then suggest strategies for change.
Requirement: 1 scholarly source for each question + 1 textbook source from McGonigle, D. & Mastrian, K. (2018). Nursing informatics and the foundation of knowledge (4th ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones and Bartlett.

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A workaround is a process to which limitations and problems are overcome in a system or a particular program (Alter, 2004). Workarounds can be used in various circumstances to deal with multiple issues. An example of such events that may need workarounds, in this case, is the use of technology. One of the workarounds that I will be considering, in this case, will be on the healthcare staffing management technology.

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