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Minimizing Harm in a Health Care Setting

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Discuss strategies to avoid or minimize harm to others in health care.

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The solution looks at the concept of non-maleficence and discusses strategies to minimize harm in the health care sector.

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Healthcare organizations can avoid or minimize harm in the healthcare setting by addressing the problems that commonly occur during the course of providing health care such as adverse drug events and improper transfusions, surgical injuries and wrong-site surgery, suicides, restraint-related injuries or death, falls, burns, pressure ulcers, and mistaken patient identities. This can be accomplished by establishing a ...

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