Environmental and Occupational Health/Human Factors

Environmental and Occupational Health/Human Factors
Human Factors play an integral part in healthcare. Review this week’s videos regarding this topic and reflect upon these factors and your own experiences. In the video LDI Louise Batz, her daughter mentions 3 reasons preventable medical errors occur and her conviction about the importance of patients and families being an integral part of the healthcare team.

As mentioned in the LDI Louise Batz video, how does lack of teamwork, lack of knowledge and lack of technology impact the occurrence of preventable medical errors?
How do Human Factors influence healthcare errors? Describe what you have seen in either your professional or personal life.
How can patients and their families be included in the healthcare team and how would this impact healthcare?
For your original post, please respond with a substantive answer (at least 3-4 well-written sentences for each prompt) to each of these three questions.

There are NO references required for this discussion board. This is discussion is simply meant for you to reflect upon these questions.

Discussion Board Rubric – Reflections

GUIDELINES
You will submit your original post, then engage at least two of your online colleagues in a discussion about his/her responses by responding to their posts. Therefore, you should have at least one original posting and one response to each of two colleagues. Please note that your postings and responses must be “substantive”, which means that they are to add to the discussion and be made AFTER you have read the assigned material (at least 3-4 well-written sentences for each prompt). Please note that your Discussion Board assignments are worth a significant part of your course grade, therefore, you are expected to put thought and effort into these entries.

Please do not attach your discussion board posts as word documents. You may type your post in a word document, but then it needs to be copied and pasted into the actual discussion board thread before submitting