MitraRangarajanNP

Summary

• Mitra Rangarajan works in the Baltimore area, providing episodic and chronic care services for Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Primary Care Service. Mitra has decades of experience in the nutrition, medicine and public health fields. She is affiliated with many organizations including International Council of Nurses (ICN) / International Nurse Practitioner (INP), American College of Gastroenterology (ACG), American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP), American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE), and The American Diabetes Association (ADA).
  
  During her many years of experience in healthcare she observed endless preventable patient safety failures. Mitra's mission to empower the public so that they can take charge of their health and safety when they go to the hospital. She views patients as partners of the healthcare delivery team, which recognizes the patient’s experiential knowledge. In a partnership like this, the knowledge, competency and experience a patient has gained through his/her illness will complement the clinical and scientific knowledge of the healthcare professionals improving the quality of care and fostering trust and confidence in each other for better outcomes.
  
  Through her extensive research and firsthand training, Mitra has culled specific shortcomings of healthcare systems failure which sometimes is systemic and can lead to danger or even death for patients. This includes failure to follow guidelines, errors of communication, inadequate training, lapses in hygiene and infection control, lack of informed consent for treatments and procedures, misinformation for patients, and much more. Her desire to keep patients safe and bring this issue to the forefront increased after she witnessed how individuals compromised patient safety in an effort to retaliate against those who voiced concerns of misconduct and patient safety.
About Mitra Rangarajan
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