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Lewis’s Story Case Study

1. What errors happened in Lewis’s story?
2. How can a learner help prevent errors and adverse events?
3. What is it about being a learner that can increase the risk of errors/adverse events for patients?
4. What policies or safeguards could help protect patients and families from a health care team’s inability to recognize a developing problem?
5. Patients enter hospitals assuming that health professionals are watching for complications so that they can “rescue” patients. What factors detract from our effectiveness in making that true – reliably true – for every patient?

1. Helen Haskell has stated elsewhere, “We were in the only place in this country where Lewis’s father and I could not get help for our son…a hospital.” In any other location, she could have called “911”. How do health professionals justify this reality? What policies could eliminate the problem?
2. What are your ideas about patient empowerment and nurse empowerment in terms of the overall safety of our health care systems?, When are the interests of patients and nurses in alignment? When are they not?,
3. What errors happened in Lewis’s story?,
4. How can a learner help prevent errors and adverse events?,
5. What is it about being a learner that can increase the risk of errors/adverse events for patients?Lewis’s Story Case Study,
6. What policies or safeguards could help protect patients and families from a health care team’s inability to recognize a developing problem?,
7. Patients enter hospitals assuming that health professionals are watching for complications so that they can “rescue” patients. What factors detract from our effectiveness in making that true – reliably true – for every patient?
8. Helen Haskell has stated elsewhere, “We were in the only place in this country where Lewis’s father and I could not get help for our son…a hospital.” In any other location, she could have called “911”. How do health professionals justify this reality? What policies could eliminate the problem? Lewis’s Story Case Study
9. What are your ideas about patient empowerment and nurse empowerment in terms of the overall safety of our health care systems? When are the interests of patients and nurses in alignment? When are they not?