A term for a ‘headliner’ event that may cause an unexpected or unanticipated outcome, death or serious physical or psychological injury, or the risk thereof
Examples:
a. Suicide while a patient is under 24/7 surveillance;
b. unexpected death of a full-term infant
c. infant abduction or discharge to the wrong family
d. rape
e. haemolytic transfusion reaction due to mismatched blood
f. surgery on the wrong patient or wrong body part
The new definition of Sentinel Event! ( I am just being sarcastic if you still don't have any idea until now.)
a. Sentinel event is when a Licensed Nurse endorses the patient to a technician of any field without any irreversible and untoward effects on the patient. It also happens when a nurse fails to accomplish his/her Intake/Output monitoring, Nurses notes, transfer of patients to ancillary units for a diagnostic procedure to avoid any probability of a re-op or loss of limb especially during stat cases when time is very crucial without any doctors order (even if the doctor on duty verbalized that he /she will write the order when all situation are okay.)
