Safety is recognized as minimizing risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance. Please review the QSEN competencies related to Informatics (http://qsen.org/competencies/pre-licensure-ksas/#informatics) and Safety (http://qsen.org/competencies/pre-licensure-ksas/#safety). For this discussion, please respond to each of the following prompts:
1. Describe a safety-enhancing technology that you use in your practice. Provide a full description that helps the reader understand its use and features.
2. In your experience, has the technology described help reduce the intended safety risk for which it was intended? Strengthen your discussion by fully describing why or why not?
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Dante Alighieri played a critical role in the literature world through his poem Divine Comedy that was written in the 14th century. The poem contains Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. The Inferno is a description of the nine circles of torment that are found on the earth. It depicts the realms of the people that have gone against the spiritual values and who, instead, have chosen bestial appetite, violence, or fraud and malice. The nine circles of hell are limbo, lust, gluttony, greed and wrath. Others are heresy, violence, fraud, and treachery. The purpose of this paper is to examine the Dante’s Inferno in the perspective of its portrayal of God’s image and the justification of hell.
In this epic poem, God is portrayed as a super being guilty of multiple weaknesses including being egotistic, unjust, and hypocritical. Dante, in this poem, depicts God as being more human than divine by challenging God’s omnipotence. Additionally, the manner in which Dante describes Hell is in full contradiction to the morals of God as written in the Bible. When god arranges Hell to flatter Himself, He commits egotism, a sin that is common among human beings (Cheney, 2016). The weakness is depicted in Limbo and on the Gate of Hell where, for instance, God sends those who do not worship Him to Hell. This implies that failure to worship Him is a sin.
God is also depicted as lacking justice in His actions thus removing the godly image. The injustice is portrayed by the manner in which the sodomites and opportunists are treated. The opportunists are subjected to banner chasing in their lives after death followed by being stung by insects and maggots. They are known to having done neither good nor bad during their lifetimes and, therefore, justice could have demanded that they be granted a neutral punishment having lived a neutral life. The sodomites are also punished unfairly by God when Brunetto Lattini is condemned to hell despite being a good leader (Babor, T. F., McGovern, T., & Robaina, K. (2017). While he commited sodomy, God chooses to ignore all the other good deeds that Brunetto did.
Finally, God is also portrayed as being hypocritical in His actions, a sin that further diminishes His godliness and makes Him more human. A case in point is when God condemns the sin of egotism and goes ahead to commit it repeatedly. Proverbs 29:23 states that “arrogance will bring your downfall, but if you are humble, you will be respected.” When Slattery condemns Dante’s human state as being weak, doubtful, and limited, he is proving God’s hypocrisy because He is also human (Verdicchio, 2015). The actions of God in Hell as portrayed by Dante are inconsistent with the Biblical literature. Both Dante and God are prone to making mistakes, something common among human beings thus making God more human.
To wrap it up, Dante portrays God is more human since He commits the same sins that humans commit: egotism, hypocrisy, and injustice. Hell is justified as being a destination for victims of the mistakes committed by God. The Hell is presented as being a totally different place as compared to what is written about it in the Bible. As a result, reading through the text gives an image of God who is prone to the very mistakes common to humans thus ripping Him off His lofty status of divine and, instead, making Him a mere human. Whether or not Dante did it intentionally is subject to debate but one thing is clear in the poem: the misconstrued notion of God is revealed to future generations.
References
Babor, T. F., McGovern, T., & Robaina, K. (2017). Dante’s inferno: Seven deadly sins in scientific publishing and how to avoid them. Addiction Science: A Guide for the Perplexed, 267.
Cheney, L. D. G. (2016). Illustrations for Dante’s Inferno: A Comparative Study of Sandro Botticelli, Giovanni Stradano, and Federico Zuccaro. Cultural and Religious Studies, 4(8), 487.
Verdicchio, M. (2015). Irony and Desire in Dante’s” Inferno” 27. Italica, 285-297.
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One safety-enhancing technology that I use in my practice is the electronic health record (EHR). The EHR is a computer-based system
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One safety-enhancing technology that I use in my practice is the electronic health record (EHR). The EHR is a computer-based system
- Describe a safety-enhancing technology that you use in your practice. Provide a full description that helps the reader understand its use and features.
One safety-enhancing technology that I use in my practice is the electronic health record (EHR). The EHR is a computer-based system that stores patient health information, such as demographics, medical history, medications, allergies, and test results. The EHR allows me to access patient information quickly and easily, which can help me to make better decisions about their care. The EHR also has features that can help to prevent errors, such as alerts for drug interactions and duplicate orders.
- In your experience, has the technology described help reduce the intended safety risk for which it was intended? Strengthen your discussion by fully describing why or why not.
In my experience, the EHR has helped to reduce the intended safety risk of medication errors. The EHR’s alerts for drug interactions and duplicate orders have helped me to catch errors before they reach the patient. For example, I once received an alert that a patient was allergic to a medication that was ordered for them. I was able to catch this error before the medication was given to the patient, which prevented a serious reaction.
The EHR has also helped to reduce the risk of other types of errors, such as diagnostic errors and falls. For example, the EHR’s medication history feature can help me to avoid prescribing medications that the patient is allergic to. The EHR’s fall risk assessment tool can help me to identify patients who are at risk for falls, so that I can take steps to prevent them.
Overall, I believe that the EHR has been a valuable tool for improving patient safety. The EHR’s features have helped me to catch errors before they reach the patient, which has prevented serious harm. I believe that the EHR is an important tool for improving patient safety in the future.
In addition to the EHR, there are many other safety-enhancing technologies that are used in healthcare. These technologies include barcoding, clinical decision support systems, and smart infusion pumps. These technologies can help to prevent errors, improve communication, and make patient care more efficient.
As healthcare technology continues to evolve, I believe that we will see even more safety-enhancing technologies being developed. These technologies will help to make healthcare even safer for patients and providers.
