Patient safety and Overcrowding in Emergency Room

Abstract

This article aims to educate, help to understand and realizing the importance of patient safety. This is to ensure the safety of the service recipients, and medical personnel in the emergency unit.  There were situations, and impacts on patients, and risk on legal problems, which may occur with medical providers, arising from crises of overcrowding in emergency room/unit, as well as safety-related management within the context of professional nurses. Patient Safety or Patient Safety Solution is a standard internationally.  Thailand, through Hospital Accreditation Institute, has adopted the policy of "SIMPLE" to develop the "Patient Safety Solution":  S = Safe Surgery, I = Infection Control (Clean care is safer care), M = Medication & Blood Safety, P = Patient Care Process, L = Line, Tube & Catheter, E = Emergency Response.