Week 2 Discussion
Safety is recognized as minimizing risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance. Please review the QSEN competencies related to Informatics (http://qsen.org/competencies/pre-licensure-ksas/#informaticsLinks to an external site.) and Safety (http://qsen.org/competencies/pre-licensure-ksas/#safetyLinks to an external site.). For this discussion, please respond to each of the following prompts:
- Describe a safety-enhancing technology that you use in your practice. Provide a full description that helps the reader understand its use and features.
- In your experience, has the technology described help reduce the intended safety risk for which it was intended? Strengthen your discussion by fully describing why or why not?