the importance of using the EHR records well and monitoring the inpatient's movement to reduce
chances that might result in injury.
Reducing errors through a culture of Safety
For healthcare to have reduced the chance of medical error, the hospital should institute a
safety culture. Vagues et al. (2016) argued that a safety culture becomes appropriate when it aims
at reduction of medical error as it associates the public as well as instills responsibility to
consider adequate period in their method. Also the viewpoint, and significances are essential to
make sure they succeed to attain a sustainable and collective response that might be impossible
at the individual level. The value installation, attitude along with norm of behaviors wherein
safety is focused on all care delivered aimed at safety. All the entire team members in the
organization must be committed to the reduction of error during the delivery period and
responsible for investigating collaboratively on issues that pose a risk and challenges to patient
care delivery.
However, even if it might be challenging to attain a culture of safety due to difficulties in
observing the safest route of action, a well-organized facility can mitigate the threat. The reason
is that due to the complexity of healthcare and medicine and human beings, the preventive
measure of harm to either the healthcare give or patient is not always easy. Therefore, healthcare
practitioners are not always sure about what causes the error or appropriate response to the issue,
which might affect the establishment of safety culture (Rodziewicz & Hipskind, 2019). Thus,
will a well-organized and structured governance sharing of ideas, making decisions, and
establishing an area of threat might help to reduce the medical error, which has diverse effects on
the concerned parties. Finally, the nature of healthcare develops an environment for routine

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failure in operation, such as missing equipment and inadequate supplies. With the close
monitored, follow-ups, and regular checklist update along with proper communication channels,
can help reduce the threats or risk of harming the patients.
Conclusion
Eventually, medical error in the US has progressively plagued present healthcare and has
emerged as a social issue in public. These errors cause a substantial cost to patients and
healthcare systems, insurance companies, physicians, and taxpayers. Also, they have led to
malpractice litigation in the disclosure and apologies for most error occurrence results in
decreased claim rates. The expected outcomes in the reform of medical care in the reduction of
errors are by improving the frequency of medical errors in the health facility. Communication
efforts in hand-off and technology through EHR will improve collaboration to help implement
patient checklist and appropriate team communication. The stakeholder wills, in turn, be invested
in promoting simple safety habits for healthcare to patients. The ethical consideration and key


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