Patient Care Committee

The most important responsibility of our institution and our employees is to provide safe and effective care and services to all patients. Effective communication, collaboration and standardized processes are required so that care planning, coordination and delivery support and respond to each patient's unique needs and goals. The committee's areas of work are to ensure that care is planned according to assessment to meet each patient's unique needs, that the planned care is delivered to each patient, that the patient's response to the care given is monitored, and that the planned care is modified when needed in line with the patient's response. In this context, the committee carries out the following activities:

• - Ensuring that the care given to all patients is delivered to the same standard and in compliance with current laws and regulations,
• - Ensuring that the care provided to patients is the same in every area of the hospital, and that a standard care service is provided that does not vary according to the day of the week, the time of day or ability to pay,
• - Ensuring that processes are established to integrate and coordinate the care given to patients,
• - Ensuring that processes are established for clinical and diagnostic procedures and treatments,
• - Ensuring that an individual care plan is created and recorded for each patient,
• - Ensuring that a uniform process is developed and implemented for writing patient orders,
• - Ensuring that policies and procedures are established and implemented for the care of high-risk patients (emergency patients, patients in a coma, patients with communicable diseases, dialysis patients, etc.) and for the delivery of high-risk services,
• - Ensuring that a systematic process is developed and implemented so that staff recognize and intervene when a patient's condition is deteriorating,
• - Ensuring that processes covering the preparation, use and administration of blood and blood products are defined and implemented,
• - Ensuring that policies and procedures are established and implemented to identify patients in the hospital who are at risk of suicide and self-harm,
• - Ensuring that policies and procedures are established and implemented for the safe use of lasers and other optical radiation devices used for treatment in the hospital,
• - Ensuring that patients' nutritional status is assessed by qualified persons and that an appropriate nutrition program is created and implemented,
• - Ensuring that a method is determined and implemented to appropriately assess and treat pain,
• - Ensuring that end-of-life care is planned and that all employees are trained on the special needs of patients at the end of life and their relatives,
• - Ensuring that organ and tissue transplantation (where performed) is carried out by qualified persons in accordance with legislation, and that the patient and the living donor (if any) are adequately informed and their consent is obtained.

Although the Nursing Protocols Committee appears as a separate committee in the organizational chart, it essentially operates within the scope of the Patient Care and Assessment Committees.