Providing safe health care for all patients is not only a legal

Providing safe health care for all patients is not only a legal and ethical responsibility for all professional health care workers, but has now become a top priority in the United States health care system. While many U.S health critics may argue that the for profit based health care system in the states isn’t malleable, and is highly resistant to change studies and error reporting done by the Joint Commission have shown that numerous hospitals over the past decade have been gradually evolving towards a health care system that creates a safer environment for not only its workers, but every patient that walks through the doors. According to the Institute for Health Improvement it is estimated that nearly 15 million instances of medical harm occur in the United States each year (Hebda and Czar, 2013). As a top world leader these numbers are troubling when simultaneously stacked up to other developed countries such as the United Kingdom, Sweden, and France.Patient safety solutions as defined by the World Health Organization is any system design or intervention that has demonstrated the ability to prevent or mitigate patient harm stemming from the process of healthcare (Hebda and Czar, 2013). Additionally, organizations like the WHO have pressed the issue of greater patient safety by implementing programs like the Joint Commission and coming up with evidence based solutions to combat common medical safety breeches such as medication errors, negligent needle sticks, falls, and hospital acquired infections and pressure ulcers. In the past ten years multiple organizations in the United States have tried to improve health care by implementing their own programs and systems of checks and balances. If this still doesn’t silence the naysers of the U.S health system one doesn’t have to look far to see the obvious growing culture of patient safety in this nation highlighted by interest in patient safety causing new legislation to be created, encouraging four thousand hospitals to adopt 12 lifesaving interventions created to cut down on injuries, and inspiring a slew of health care facilities in this country to utilize safety implementing techniques from other U.S industries such as the navy and automobile industry.As a future registered nurse that grew up in the age of technology I know that my peers and I can use the advantages that technology allows us, and our knowledge of safe nursing practice to remarkably change the number of errors made in nursing. Adequate nursing is a prerequisite to preventing falls, pressure sores and urinary tract infections, and additionally medication errors. (Westerman, Saman, Kavanagh and Bartel, 2017).