Your overall health is very important and in any situation, lots of proper care needs to be taken to ensure that you are fit and fine. This year due to the corona pandemic lots of people suffered a lot and there were many health-related issues, which were tackled over a period. This year there were a few health blunders, which need to be avoided. Due to major health blunders, lots of people are losing their lives. It can happen in almost any healthcare setting including hospitals, medical offices, nursing homes, pharmacies, and patients’ homes. Here we look at these four major health blunders that need to be avoided.
1) HUMAN PROBLEMS.
The main health blunder may be due to human problems and it occurs when the standard of care, policies, processes as well as procedures are not followed properly. While doing documentation or labeling the specimen, errors may occur. All those errors may lead to misunderstanding and various health-related issues.
2) INADEQUATE INFORMATION.
Information is the key in every healthcare setting. Inadequate information flow can create a few problems like poor coordination of medication orders for transfer of care as well as lack of communication of test results.
3) PATIENT-RELATED ISSUES.
These may include inappropriate patient identification and assessment. Also, if a patient’s chart is incorrect or the doctor misread it, may lead to an operation blunder by operating on the wrong body part. Just before surgery make sure about the correct body part and side of your operation.
This is considered to be the worst health blunder and patients may wake up during surgery. Before surgery make the schedule properly related to which kind of anesthesia to be injected.
