Safe Patient Care definition

Safe Patient Care means nursing care that is provided appropriately, in a timely manner, and meets the patient's health care needs. The following factors may be, but are not in all circumstances, evidence of unsafe patient care:

Examples of Safe Patient Care in a sentence

  • Safe Patient Care Act 2015Bairnsdale Regional Health Service has no matters to report in relation to its obligations under Section 40 of the Safe Patient Care Act 2015.

  • A Learning Contract is initiated at the time the student demonstrates any of the following unmet critical elements (e.g. Patient-Centered Care, Safe Patient Care, Multidisciplinary Care and Teamwork, Patient Teaching, Accessing Information and Evaluating Outcomes and Accountability and Responsibility) and they are documented.

  • Safe Patient Care Act 2015I, Dr Sue Matthews, certify that the Women’s complies with the Safe Patient Care Act 2015.

  • The Safe Patient Care Act 2015 already includes ratios in public aged care that were historically nursing homes.

  • This regulation categorised wards into seven different types and set out different levels of staffing required in each unit.413 The Victorian Government was the first jurisdiction in Australia (and second in the world) to legislate minimum nurse-to-patient ratios via the Safe Patient Care (Nurse to Patient and Midwife to Patient Ratios) Act 2015.

  • These classifications provide a set of terms to describe nursing judgments, treatments and nursing-sensitive patient outcomes (NANDA-I NIC NOC for Safe Patient Care, n.d.).

  • Exhibit 11-29, Melbourne Hearing 3, Statement of Kym Peake, WIT.0481.0001.0001 at 0017 [112]; Safe Patient Care (Nurse to Patient and Midwife to Patient Ratios) Act 2015 (Vic) s 19.

  • In circumstances where an employer has been unable to meet its obligations to provide a registered nurse to be in charge of a nursing home ward (as provided for in the Safe Patient Care Act 2015) an enrolled nurse who assumes the in-charge responsibilities will be paid at the ANUM rate for that period.

  • There were no complaints made under the Act against West Gippsland Healthcare Group or its staff for 2016-17.Safe Patient Care Act 2015West Gippsland Healthcare Group complies with the Safe Patient Care (Nurse to Patient and Midwife to Patient Ratios) Act.

  • Subsequently the Victorian Government introduced the Safe Patient Care (Nurse to Patient and Midwife to Patient Ratios) Amendment Bill 2018 with the aim of improving minimum nurse and midwife to patient ratios in public health services over five phases commencing in 2019.

Related to Safe Patient Care

  • Outpatient services means those services rendered in a practitioner’s office or in the department of an approved facility where services are rendered to persons who have not had an overnight stay and are not charged for room and board.

  • Hospice Care means a coordinated program of active professional

  • Outpatient means a person who is receiving care other than on an inpatient basis, such as: • in a provider’s office; • in an ambulatory surgical center or facility; • in an emergency room; or • in a clinic. .

  • Day Patient means an Insured Person receiving Medical Services or treatments given in a medical clinic, day case procedure centre or Hospital where the Insured Person is not in Confinement.

  • Dependent care assistance program means a benefit plan