National Patient Safety Goals Name Course Lecturer Date Major issues related to the National Patient Safety Goals Health institutions have developed another perspective of taking care to the patient safety. National patient safety goals were introduced in 2002, where they were developed to aid recognized organizations address specific patient safety issues. These goals are updated as time goes and areas like improving the accuracy of patient identification, improving safety of using medication are some of the updated issues but the question on what are the major issues related to the National Patient Safety Goals remains the key factor on this. The establishment of National Patient Safety Goals took place in 2002 where their main objective was to come up with a way of addressing specific areas of concern in regards to patient safety. The very first thing that was done by the NPSGs was to come up with patient safety advisory groups. In this case, the group comprised of recognized patients who are safety experts like nurses, pharmacists, risk managers, clin...