Abstract:

Patient safety can define as liberty from accidental injury, focusing in the specific processes, working practices and activities in systematic manner those are able to minimize or protect the available risk of harm to patients. This particular topic has become global agenda and various countries such as England, Australia, the USA, Canada and other developed countries have established national bodies to manage and maintain patients’ safety. And they are also focusing on nursing profession for the purpose to maintain effective level of safety of patients. Nursing profession plays important role in development and maintenance of safety of patients.

Therefore this coursework has conducted for the purpose to define role of nurses to increase and maintain patients’ safety in health care organizations. Role of nursing in health care organizations have defined on behalf of nursing leadership, nursing collaboration and nursing empowerment. Obtained findings have presented that nurse plays important role in the safety of patients and therefore leadership, collaboration and empowerment in the field of nursing are able to enhance safety of patients in significant manner. Leadership of nursing is able to increase patients’ safety; further nursing collaboration enhanced team work with other nurses and physicians and also avoids adverse impacts of treatments. Finally empowerment of nursing provides increased and clear information about the patients by nurse to physicians.

Hence all three aspects are important to enhance safety of patients. Healthcare organizations should focus to enhance nursing leadership, collaboration and empowerment for the purpose to achieve better outcomes in health care organization in terms of increased and enhanced safety of patients.

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