Abstract:
The word “Patient” has been derived from the Latin word
"Patior" which means "to suffer". It represents the sense of
feeling pain as well as sense of forbearance.1Whereas patient
care is defined as the prevention, treatment and management
of diseases and the preservation of physical and mental wellbeing.2 This is attained by the services of health professionals.
Patient safety is a discipline that emphasizes in through
the prevention, reduction, reporting, and analysis of and
other types of unnecessary harm that often lead to and even
deaths by these medical errors.