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Medical Error Reporting – Policy and Procedures
Scenario:
A new, free-standing hospital has been built in Saudi Arabia and will be opening in the coming year. The hospital’s leadership is well aware of the high rate of medical errors that occur in hospitals throughout the Kingdom and is eager to put proactive plans in place prior to opening.
As part of these efforts, you have been tasked with writing the organization’s policy and procedures on reporting medical errors. Your document should be thorough but succinct. It must include the following elements:
- Policy title,
- Policy statement,
- Purpose,
- Authority,
- Scope,
- Responsibility, and
- Procedures.
Your well-written Policy and Procedures document should meet the following requirements:
- One to two pages in length.
- Utilize the Medical Error Policy template linked below.
- Provide support for your work with in-text citations from a minimum of two scholarly articles. One of these sources may be from the class readings, textbook, or lectures, but one must be external.
- Provide full APA references for the sources used, along with appropriate in-text citations.
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New KSA University Hospital Policy #: XXXX
Effective Date: Month XX, XXX POLICY TITLE: Medical Error and Reporting
Purpose:
The purpose of the medical errors reporting policy is to provide guidelines to medical staff of the New KSA University Hospital regarding reporting the mistakes they make while undertaking their workplace duties.
Authority:
The medical error reporting policy has been authorized by Saudi Arabia’s ministry of health (MoH), the Saudi medication safety chairman, the New KSA University Hospital, and the chief operations officer of the safety project.
Scope
3.1 The policy is applicable to all relevant departments and medical providers within the hospital. They include the healthcare professionals that interact with patients directly and the non-medical staff who work in the hospital. Their operations have a significant impact on patients’ outcomes, thus need to adhere to the provisions of the policy.
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