Care delivery process flow

The business case for patient safety rests on reducing the costs of poor quality. The development of aligned and effective systems of care delivery at every point along the continuum, from supply of products to the care encounter will eliminate waste, reduce cost, and mitigate risk. When patient safety becomes an explicit business strategy, near misses and accidents must be examined in detail. The organization must be examined from the perspective of process flow. As Jerry Massman, a chief financial officer, stated, Efficient and effective systems are safe systems (Shapiro, 2000). 

The actual cylinders and pistons of a two-headed pump are constructed in a very similar manner to the single piston pump with a sapphire piston and a stainless steel cylinder. Each cylinder is fitted with nonreturn valves both at the inlet and outlet. The cams that drive the two pistons are carefully cut to provide an increase in flow from one pump while the other pump is being filled to compensate for the loss of delivery during the refill process and thus, a fall in pressure. A diagram of a twin-headed pump is shown in figure 10. 

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