Patient Safety Management Problems
198 problems reported across 8+ industries
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Nurse Situational Awareness App
SafePath: Emergency Escalation
Patient Safety Escalation & Rapid Response System
MediGuard Pro
Medication administration safety gaps in nursing workflows
RehabGuard
Remote Rehab Monitoring & Compliance
SafeMedic: Nurse Safety Companion
Medication Safety & Incident Support for New Nurses
TubeGuard Reposition
Feeding pump management during patient repositioning
Patient Safety Management Problems(page 7 of 10)
NeedleSafe Incident Manager
An urgent care RN experienced a needlestick from a contaminated urine transfer needle, but employee health classified it as a near miss with no follow-up, leaving the nurse concerned about exposure risk and protocol adequacy.
MedLoad Optimizer
Nurses in skilled nursing facilities are assigned excessive numbers of patients (up to 40) for medication passes, creating risk of errors and unsafe working conditions.
VitalFlow ICU
ICU nurses lack a reliable system to enforce hourly EVD monitoring and prevent data falsification when staffing shortages cause busy workloads.
Withdrawal Watch
Nurses lack an effective way to escalate care for patients in severe alcohol withdrawal when providers won't act, leading to unsafe conditions and burnout.
SkinSafe Fecal Manager
A paralyzed 500lb patient with a stage 4 pressure injury has uncontrolled loose stool causing moisture and pain, but staff cannot change him frequently due to his agony, and the medical-surgical unit does not typically use rectal tubes.
ExposureCare OnCall
A nurse splashed with patient urine cannot access an occupational exposure hotline on the weekend and lacks clear guidance on necessary testing.
MediSafe Handoff
A nurse administered a medication based on erroneous notes from another nurse, resulting in a medication error because the medication was not actually charted or ordered.
VigiGuard AI Patient Observer
Hospital virtual patient observation systems (like AVA) fail to detect critical safety events and generate false alarms, undermining trust in their ability to replace in-person sitters.
FallAlert Pro
Nursing home staff lack mandated bed alarm systems to prevent patient falls, creating safety risks and reliance on manual monitoring.
CarbSafe: Menu Accuracy Assurance
Carb counting system inaccuracies due to meal tray substitutions being incorrectly logged as add-ons, risking insulin miscalculation for patients.
MedVerify Assist
A nurse cannot reliably verify medication administration due to exhaustion-induced memory loss and manual barcode scanning mistakes.
ChemoShield Monitor
An oncology infusion nurse in her late 20s is concerned about fertility risks from occupational exposure to chemotherapy drugs, despite using PPE, and fears the lack of pregnancy-specific safety protocols.
LiftAssist Pro
Mobile patient lifting is extremely physically demanding and risky without the right equipment in place.
SafeChart Dyslexia Assist
New grad nurse with dyslexia worries that number switching, spelling difficulties, and reliance on verbal orders in the ER will lead to charting errors and patient safety risks.
CorSafe Alert
Nurses are unaware of and untrained on the risk of vial coring when drawing up medications with blunt needles, potentially leading to patient harm from glass fragments.
NarcSafe Guard
A nurse in a busy ED made a second narcotic medication error due to overwhelming workload and manual double-checking, causing fear of termination and legal consequences.
SafeCount Pro
Pharmacy technicians are stressed and anxious when manually counting medications that cannot be machine-counted, fearing cross-contamination that could harm patients.
IV LineSafe Flush
Nurses need a reliable way to prevent medication incompatibility when using the same IV line for multiple drugs, but current practice of discarding dedicated secondary tubing is wasteful and costly.
IVCompass
IV pumps do not alert when hanging ceftriaxone with lactated Ringer's solution, requiring manual clearing of an alert that may be missed by new grads.
SafeDose ScanGuard
A nurse administered double the ordered dose of IV morphine due to confusion about vial dosage and lack of a barcode scanning alert for the second vial.