The scholarly activity attended is a regular conference occurring in the community hospital to discuss issues that affect the patient care processes leading to adverse effects such as a complication or death. The morbidity and mortality meeting was organized for surgeons to provide a forum, which they could willingly and confidently discuss adverse events and medical complications in a non-retributive environment (Joseph et al., 2015). Other parties attending the meeting were hospital administrators and clinical staff. Attending the morbidity and mortality meeting provided an opportunity to understand that people learn from their mistakes and become more knowledgeable. Moreover, it became clear that a non-punitive environment is conducive for open discussions on errors in healthcare services as well as in developing attitudes that ensure patient's safety.
This morbidity and mortality meeting aimed to improve the quality of care, patient outcomes as well as develop attitudes that ensure patient's safety. Nonetheless, it provided an opportunity for surgical trainees to learn from surgical procedures mistakes (Joseph et al., 2015). The meeting also aimed to provide an assurance to the hospital administrators that poor outcomes in surgical care are scrutinized and addressed. The main problem affecting the mission was the time limitation among surgeons, thus lacking an opportunity to attend these forums, which could result in more mistakes in surgical procedures, thus more deaths (Sinistky et al., 2019). Both the surgeons and patients are affected by the time limitation of the surgeons. A nurse attending a mortality and morbidity meeting learns the importance of opening up on health care mistakes to provide an opportunity for others to learn, thus minimizing the chances of others repeating the same errors.
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The morbidity and mortality meeting provided an opportunity for attending surgeons to discuss their operational mistakes and errors. The forum was open for all surgeons to discuss their issues while correcting others on their mistakes hence providing an opportunity for everyone to learn (Sinitsky et al., 2019). The non-punitive nature of the environment allowed surgeons to willingly point out their mistakes while the rest provided solutions on how the situation was to be handled to improve the quality of care. Nonetheless, through the discussions, several system errors were identified in which the hospital administrators promised to correct. On the issue of limited time, the scholarly activity encouraged surgeons to form small groups in which they inform the absent members on issues discussed, offering them an opportunity to ask questions and share their own experiences.
The morbidity and mortality meeting was taking advantage of the surgeons’ willingness to talk freely and openly concerning the complications they encountered in their surgical procedures. The meeting used surgical errors as opportunities for learning as denial and shock that follow a medical mistake can result in the preclusion of its recognition (Joseph et al., 2015). Therefore, by the end of the meeting, various discussions took place on various medical errors allowing surgeons to learn from one another's mistakes. Surgical trainees were also able to understand errors that can occur in the surgical processes while the hospital administrators learned of the various system errors which they promised to correct. As a nurse, the meeting helped me understand that mistakes in the healthcare processes should act as learning opportunities instead of blaming oneself or others.
Attending the morbidity and mortality meeting provided an opportunity to improve my leadership skills. Time management is one of the self-leadership skills I gained after understanding how surgeons lack time to attend important meetings, thus vowing to utilize every minute well while setting the priorities on the things that matter. Nonetheless, the meeting provided an opportunity to improve my critical thinking skills through synthesizing and evaluating scientific evidence provided in ensuring patient care during the surgical procedures (Joseph et al. 2015). Effective communication is another competency addressed by this scholarly activity. The meeting offered an understanding of the importance of applying nursing terminologies, being clear and respectful to increase others' comprehension of the intended message. Moreover, the activity provided the opportunity to become aware of factors determining one's health.
References
Joseph, C., Garrubba, M., Melder, A., & Loh, E. (2015). Best practice for conducting morbidity and mortality reviews: A literature review [Ebook]. CSIRO. Retrieved 29 September 2020, from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281593895_Best_practice_for_conducting_morbidity_and_mortality_reviews_A_literature_review .
Sinistky, D., Gowda, S., Dawas, K., & Fernando, B. (2019). Morbidity and mortality meetings to improve patient safety: a survey of 109 consultant surgeons in London, United Kingdom. Patient Safety In Surgery , (27). Retrieved 29 September 2020, from https://pssjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13037-019-0207-3.
