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- Definition of what risk assessment in healthcare
- What does the DOH say on patient safety?
- What policy drivers are published on patient safety?
- The importance of assessing risk in healthcare- link this to Morecambe Bay Inquiry
- What does the NMC say about patient safety
- Explain brief outline of potential risk within the case study ‘Medication error’
- Could this had incurred the NHS a financial penalty? Could there been a medical negligence claim/litigation? What has the incidence has this been?
- How could this potential harm have affected not only the service user but the midwifery profession and the NHS reputation? Public perception.
- How did the potential ‘error’ occur, what was the key elements involved communication & documentation
- Definition of inter professional working
- Review and discuss a range of literature of the importance of inter professional working
- What does the NMC say about a multi- disciplinary team approach?
- Review and discuss what skills are associated with high quality inter professional working.
- What are the barriers of inter professional working? Did these contribute to the error?
- After reviewing the literature what was the positives aspects extracted from the error, what was the limitations to the error occurring.
- What professionals were involved- Midwife & registrar
- What was the patient’s perspective to the potential
- Reviewing literature discuss the midwifery skills provided to assess potential risk
- How did these skills facilitate to reduce the risk in this error?
- How did the role of the midwife interact within the multi-disciplinary team?
- What added value was added to reducing the risk from the midwifery role?
