Lecture by Dr. Ángela Garrido in the framework of the 10th Anniversary of HOMS.

The safety of HOMS patients is a priority in our management of the quality of care provided to our patients.

Throughout this week, Dr. Ángela Garrido. D. in Integral Nursing from the Catholic University of Valencia (Spain), she has developed multiple workshops and sessions to train HOMS nursing staff in the quality of care with safer approaches to the patient, indicating not only when they should be applied, but also the correct and error-free way.

Sessions focused on the reduction of adverse effects have required the initiation of an organizational and multidisciplinary approach. Avoidable adverse effects have been identified (medication errors, pressure injuries, phlebitis, lack of patient information, nosocomial infections, etc.), concluding that in all of them nursing plays an important role in the health outcomes obtained and is therefore very involved in patient safety.

This training plan on safety of care is led by María Victoria Rosario, Director of Nursing at HOMS, who indicates that the hospital, as a result of its Accreditation Canada process, is working in this area continuously and with important advances.

Nursing plays a crucial role in promoting patient safety by presenting itself more consistently and directly in patient care. On the other hand, if such care is not performed with quality, it may generate errors and compromise the safety of care. It is for this reason that Homs is fully committed to this issue, training all its nurses.

Dr. Garrido has been a researcher on the SENECA project developed by the Spanish Ministry of Health, a project for the establishment of quality standards for patient safety in the hospitals of the National Health System.