Essays on Patient Safety

This discussion is a review of the protected health information (PHI) regulatory requirement as advanced by the state of Florida, the federal government’s HHS, and the Joint Commission (TJC). I believe that this regulatory measure stemmed out of HIPAA (1996) requirement that facilities restructure their electronic exchange, security, and privacy initiatives concerning PHI. The HHS, therefore, would direct, through Sections 261-264, that hospitals publicize their adherence procedures pertaining these issues. The following is an analysis of these three entities. The state of Florida, through Statute 456.057, advice that hospitals treat PHIs with the respect they deserve. Here, such ...

Management of Power

Introduction 3

Organizational Structure Influences 4-5 Conclusion 5-6

References 7

Management of Power As the nurse executive at St Louis Medical Center, it will be important to identify and utilize the leadership theories relevant to management of power in this professional capacity. Management of power is critical in creating work environments that are conducive for nurses to provide quality patient care. In a fast evolving healthcare sector, there is a growing need for nurse leaders to ensure their leadership provides the motivation and inspiration needed to continuously improve services. Based on this observation, the current paper seeks to identify and articulate ...

There are times when a nursing problem arises as a result of a number of findings, and these findings are pulled together into a summary in order to see the big picture created out of these findings. This act of pulling together is what Brown & Ochs (2018) calls a systematic research review (SRR) or systematic review, which helps researchers identify “what is known with certainty, what is tentatively known, and what the gaps in knowledge are regarding an issue” (p.175). It serves as a link between the individual studies performed and the decision making done in order to create ...

Introduction

Walshe and Rundall (2001) define evidence-based practice as the provision of medical services based on empirical evidence retrieved from thorough scientific research and the relevant characteristics of the patient. The aim of using such methods when making critical decisions about a patient is to eliminate risk and promote quality treatment (Murray & Lopez, 1996). This paper provides survey questions relating to the utilization of evidence-based health care methods in medical facilities. It also includes a cover letter that can be used to invite respondents to take part in the survey.

Survey Questions

Open-Ended What is your name? What is your age? How ...

The main objective of any health care system is to provide patient care with desirable patient outcomes. Simply put, a health care system strives to promote well-being and heath status of all human beings. It is also important to note that most aspects of the healthcare focus on prevention and management of pain among patients because freedom from pain is an essential dimension of health. Additionally, pain among patients is a multidimensional phenomenon that requires a broad, integrated and a comprehensive care model (Glare et al., 2014). Many studies that have been carried out by various scholars on health ...

Disinclination of some health care organizations to apply Electronic Medicinal Records

EMRs (Electronic Medical Records) are the information systems of medical that are electronic and they gather, store, and show the information of the patient. Even though there are a lot of favorable effects of the usage of EMR in the activities of medicine but, still the rate of implementation related to the above system is low and it also encounters opposition from the medical doctor (Clayton, 2005). One of the main barriers associated with the application of (Electronic Medical Records) is the financial issue as such issue is considered as the main factor for different doctors. The main questions ...

After Giving Birth

NR451 RN Capstone Course Term and Year After Giving Birth Even though postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) is the leading cause of mortality after giving birth, most health care facilities do not have a standardized measures to assess blood volume loss and rely only on visual estimations for assessing and documenting blood loss. Consequently, blood loss below 250 mL tends to be overestimated, whereas blood loss above 2,000 mL tends to be underestimated (Bamberg et al., 2015). Inaccurate diagnosis of PPH delays treatment and increases mortality risk among intrapartum and postpartum women, so the purpose of the proposed nursing plan ...

Project 1: Quality Measurement and Assessment

Introduction This QI project looks into improving healthcare outcomes by reducing crowding in my hospital’s emergency department (ED) setting. This QI issue considers adequate staffing and staff education as the necessary drivers towards enhanced patient flow, thus reduced ED crowding. The initiative serves as an encouragement for the facility to grow and develop its staffing and educational requirements for nurses. The idea here is that skilled and adequately staffed nurses can reduce ED crowding, thus advancing care quality and patient outcomes. My hospital recognizes patients and the staffing unit as essential elements in healthcare service delivery. The facility ...

Introduction

The title of the brochure selected for this particular report is Speak Up: Anesthesia and Sedation published in 2015 with an intention of highlighting key issues associated with the administering of anesthetics and sedatives. The brochure seeks to provide patients, intending to go for surgical procedures, with information on the usage of anesthetics and sedatives, which are common in the health care system during surgical procedures. The Joint Commission (2015) indicates that health workers in the United States alone administer approximately 40 million anesthetics annually. The figure may be higher depending on the number of patients intending to go ...

Abstract

Nursing competencies are the benchmarks that identify the changes needed by nurses as they dispense their professional duties. Based on the changing demands across various avenues, the role of the nurse is confined to the basic demands of the profession as a way of enhancing and generating the kind of importance needed to boost patient safety. Working with American Association of Colleges of Nurses (AACN) and Quality, Safety Education for Nursing (QSEN) creates a different way of addressing competencies amongst nurses. The aspect of patient-centered care as denoted by QSEN shows a need to recognize the importance of the ...

Gap in Care Quality during the Discharge Process for Care Coordination for Patients with Chronic Illnesses

Patients in the United States who experience long-term illnesses may change from one health care setting to another. They might move from home to a hospital, to an assisted living facility, or to other types of residential care. The coordination of care for patients with chronic illnesses is reliant on the abilities of health care providers to interact effectively in order to provide optimum outcomes (NTCC, 2010). In order to determine the best possible option for the patient, care coordinators must accurately assess the patient’s condition, reach a consensus on prognosis, evaluate possible resources, and develop and initiate ...

In this PICOT problem statement paper, certain PICOT questions are used using the nursing knowledge. The PICOT question investigates patients undergoing surgery. The PICOT questions considered for this paper are as follows.

P) For patients undergoing surgery

I) preoperative time-out/ Checklist to increase patient safety C) Standard Procedure

O) Reducing rates of surgical errors for the wrong site, site, procedure, and patient.

Time-Out/ safety CHECK-LIST preoperative is an essential aspect of providing health care around the world in every country. Surgical interventions are growing day by day as traumas, injuries, cardiovascular diseases and other diseases are rising with the time. The World Health Organization (WHO) has taken some measures for ensuring surgical safety in hospitals. WHO presented certain ...

1. State the purpose of the study and identify the problem. The paper “Tragedy into Policy: A Quantitative Study of Nurses’ Attitudes Toward Patient Advocacy Activities” by Lisa M. Black, presents research that was done on the attitudes of healthcare workers in Nevada regarding patient safety. The need to provide protection to patients in such settings is important as they are often profoundly affected by the prevailing beliefs and values that their caretakers have towards them. These cultural norms present an underlying problem when considering the results of poor patient care in a medical environment. The author’s intent ...

Competency

I have gathered a lot of information and skills to improve my competencies as a nurse since my admission and initial stages of practice. I have come a long way from basic knowledge of nursing practices to gather a considerable amount of knowledge and skills in nursing patient care. There are several skills and knowledge I am willing to collect since nursing is a continuous process. I am ready to explore and apply practical skills through the use of different resources and guidance so as to improve my competencies (Schoreter, 2009).  The use of the evidence-based resources is one ...

Problem Statement

During my practice in the cardiac care unit of 20- bed hospital, I witnessed that most nurses were stressed due to overtime and work- pressure as the ratio of patient to nurse for patient care delivery was 4:1. Such ratios exert huge pressure on the nurse as he/ she has to be attentive to each of her patient as and when needed. Additionally, cardiac care unit’s demands nurses to be highly attentive as most patients admitted need frequent help due to their critical condition. Such situations in which nurses have to handle so many patients’ single- handed increases ...

A hospital is not just an institution where one can get professional examination and treatment, this type of medical organization is also to provide excellence in medical research, patient case and medical education services. Some hospitals serve as outstanding examples of high-quality and well-planned health system management within a wide clinical network and are consistently expanding the range of multispecialty services. This paper reviews the policy and principal daily operations that relate to the area of ethical and fiscal responsibility of health care assistants (HCAs). Management system of any medical institution presupposes that HCAs are competent stewards of resources ...

1.0 Without putting the figures you cited into a spreadsheet, it is quick to appreciate the fact that the medical costs of obesity is clearly higher than the cost of implementing the research project. The net obesity cost (NOC)-to-project implementation cost (PIC) ratio of 10.2 [$1,429 / $140] is convincingly high. A patient’s annual savings from obesity cost can virtually finance this project implementation estimate. However, it is unclear to us if the cost of implementing the proposed exercise prescription protocol (EPP) or the actual implementation of EPP by the patient, using the necessary equipment and ...

Overview of the Product or Service

Providing quality care is one of the primary goals of every clinical setting (Alvarado et al., 2006). Regardless of the clinical setting itself, patient care must remain the main focus for the organization: however, maintaining cost-effective procedures is also a key component of good clinical practice. Good patient care relies on the ability of the staff to communicate, as well as the ability of the organization to meet the specific needs of the patients (Alvarado et al., 2006). For clinical care centers that are open twenty-four hours a day, there can be problems with patient care when staff changes ( ...

The battle of culture and beliefs versus nursing profession

The nursing professional is consistently challenged with science and cultural beliefs of patients. A patients set of religious and personal beliefs could interfere with the nurses’ empirical and scientific knowledge (Ammouri, et al. 2015). In a culturally diverse globe, many beliefs act as barriers in performing necessary medical interventions. Nurses may play a crucial but minimal role in such cases of cultural and religious belief. In emergency care and life-threatening situations, some religions do not permit for medical procedures which puts the attending nurse in a dilemma between cultural beliefs and ethical conduct. However, in most cases, nurses are ...

Introduction

Sentinel events occur unexpectedly within the working areas. When this event occurs, they can lead to serious injuries or deaths at a time. The injuries can be physical or psychological depending on the extent of injury (Valentin et al. 2006). However, the Joint Commission defines sentinel event as any unexpected incident in the health care sector, which can end in demise or solemn physical or mental damage to the patient in place. Nevertheless, sentinel events are not in any case related to the natural sickness of the patient neither the illness result into the occurrence of sentinel events. The ...

2A. Appraising Quantitative and Qualitative Research

Quantitative Study One source of bias during data collection is the use of self-report data (Polit & Beck 2012). Chivers et al. (2001) obtained data through the SF-36 and Beck depression inventory which required the patients to answer questionnaires. If they failed to give accurate answers, it would have affected the validity of the findings. The study design also allowed patients to receive other clinically appropriate treatments that were beyond the study protocol (Chivers et al. 2001). Additional treatments are confounding variables but their influence on the study outcomes was not estimated in the statistical analysis. This reduces confidence in ...

The healthcare system has been on a continuous process of change informed by the need to improve patient outcomes. The nurses are trained and prepared to manage patients based on their needs and the environment within which they pursue a livelihood. However, it is evident that despite a standardized curriculum having been adopted over time, there are varying differences across various healthcare facilities and institutions on how care is managed or delivered. The big question that one may ask is how these differences emanate while we have a curriculum and a code of ethics as well as scope of ...

Introduction

The nursing profession is one of the chief cornerstones of health care delivery worldwide. The role that nurses play in delivering heath care to populations cannot be overemphasized, which makes the profession such an integral part of the medical sector. One of the basic tenets of the nursing profession is that it comprises an integrated approach to various nursing models that work to ensure the effectiveness of the professionals while ensuring patient safety. This paper explores the models and their importance to the overall health care delivery system. Specifically, it reviews journal articles that examine both the synergy and ...

Introduction

Change is a perpetual in today’s fast paced world. What is modern today becomes obsolete tomorrow. New technologies mean a change in the way on thinks, learns and gets his information or uses it. Any organization may feel the challenges brought about by those new technologies and why they need to implement them within their culture. Any change within or outside an institution is sure to incite mixed reception and perception among its members and clients. The essay applies a change theory to an organizational-based on Kotter’s change model and plans a change process. The change process ...

3 Challenges Facing US Hospitals Hospitals today are facing many challenging issues. Three of those ear-piercing dilemmas are ensuring patient safety, quality of care, and eliminating financial challenges. All of these issues are prevalent to the existence of hospitals everywhere. If they are not addressed, the lack of success of hospitals could not only hurt its business, but each patient that it serves on a daily basis. Each of these problems can also suggest that there is a significant lack of management. A main priority of every hospital is to ensure patient safety. According to Michael Sullivan, “Every year ...

Scenario Description

The scenario described in the case presents a situation where Mike, who works a lab technician, is running late in trying to get to his workstation. Previously, Mike has had an encounter with his supervisor leading to his promise that he would be on time in future. However, in this particular incident, Mike finds himself running late due to an accident on his commute that resulted in his delay. Mike understands that his lack of clocking in on time may lead to termination of employment, which he and his family depend on for their livelihood. When getting into the ...

Executive summary

Introduction It is apparent that the modern-day healthcare system is faced with a myriad of challenges that require constant and relentless application of evidence and best practices in order to remain true to the central mandate of healthcare, which is, provision of safe and quality care. This implies that as healthcare providers, there is the obligation to be agents of positive change that would ensure both organizational and healthcare objectives are met in an effective and comprehensive manner. In this regard, this paper represents an executive summary of quality improvement program “fall prevention”, intended to reduce the number of ...

Dear Senator/Representative (Legislator’s Name):

As a leader of a non-profit health care organization, I would like to respectfully express my views and observations about the current health care status in our country. In particular, medication administration procedures. I would also like to call your attention about my goal in promoting a safer health care system for the benefits of all patients across our country. I agree that the reform in our health care system may have been long overdue. It feels great to know that our government is exerting its efforts to improve the overall system through health care reform laws. However, I ...

Background

The present-day advancements in the field of technology present a major breakthrough or opportunity for the healthcare system at large. This is purposely due to the myriad of information management, analysis and sharing products that come with health information technology (HIT). This means that accurate health information can be quickly and safely transacted between the patient and the healthcare provider as well as between the healthcare providers. One of the areas that the contemporary advancements in technology could be feasibly harnessed is through the provision of post-discharge patient care. The post-discharge phase of care presents a unique care situation ...

Abstract

Nurses have been responsible for providing primary health care in the modern health care system as well as all through history. Advance practice registered nurses can be certified in different roles. One of the important roles is that of a Geronotological Nursing Practitioner (GNP). Geriatric nurses have become a significant part of modern medicine as they are the primary care givers to elderly patients and it is recognized as a very critical advance practice nursing specialty. GNP’s are entrusted to manage a very critical part of patient care, and they have to be vigilant at all times to ...

Nursing

Mandatory Overtime in Nursing: Implementations Although mandatory overtime among nurses is not encouraged because of the perceived risk on job performance and patient management, the practice is still necessary particularly in health facilities where staffing is an issue. In situations where there are insufficient nurses, a mandatory overtime can be implemented. According to Rogoski et al., (2013) hospitals are typically understaffed particularly in neonatal ICUs by 32%, which is a ground for the implementation of overtime. In addition, high-acuity units particularly among infants require additional 0.39% of nurses. Implementing the mandate on overtime should begin by analyzing the current ...

The Alignment between the values of an organization and those of a nurse usually has an important impact on not only the engagement of the nurse but also on the patient outcomes. Where a strong alignment exists, nurses usually experience a higher sense of job satisfaction. Also, the nurses tend to become more committed towards the organizational course (Bamford, Wong & Laschinger, 2013). Further, an excellent level of value alignment facilitates the elimination of turnover behaviors including tardiness and absenteeism. Besides, as it was revealed by Bamford, Wong, and Laschinger (2013), value alignment leads to a motivation for superior performance. ...

While analyzing the ‘state of the art’ of quality improvement in healthcare, it is identified that healthcare is yet to achieve a lot in terms of quality improvement. In spite of revolutionary technological advancements in the field of healthcare, care quality and patient safety is yet to be improved in various regards. For instance, medical errors still remain to be a major issue affecting patient safety despite explosive technological advancements occurred in the field of healthcare over the last decades. While going through ‘Hospital Compare’, an official government website maintained to compare the service quality of different hospitals in ...

A competency pertains to a projected level of performance that results from an integration of knowledge, skills, abilities, and judgment. These will be used to successfully complete critical functions that help an individual in the work environment. Following are some selected nursing informatics competencies that will help me in the performance of my role as nurse.

Knowledge Competency

Competency: Describes examples of how technology and information management are related to the quality and safety of patient care.

Resources: Read and understand the following:

Health Information Technology, Patient Safety, and Professional Nursing Care Documentation in Acute Care Settings by Mary Ann Lavin, Ellen Harper, and Nancy Barr http://www.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/ANAMarketplace/ANAPeriodicals/OJIN/TableofContents/Vol-20-2015/No2-May-2015/Articles-Previous-Topics/Technology-Safety-and-Professional-Care-Documentation.html ...

Introduction

In the current era of healthcare management, hospitals need to consider a wide range of factors to make sure that its quality improvement programs are in compliance with national and state health policies. This paper will critically evaluate how national and state health policies impact implementing quality improvement programs at the macro-meso-and micro-system levels. The paper will also discuss what actions an individual nurse/nurse executive can do within an organization to promote such quality improvement initiatives.

Quality Improvement

It is identified that health policies designed by national and state governments can significantly influence the implementation of quality improvement programs at the ...

Access to health services is important because the timely use of health services will improve the best health outcomes (Healthy People 2020, 2016). It also makes a significant difference to the quality of life that people live. Lecca, Quervalu, Nunes and Gonzales (2013) define inaccessibility as one that may either be too costly or never a part of the practitioner's comprehensive approach to therapy and treatment. It is unfortunate that not everyone has the opportunity to obtain a timely health care service due to several reasons which include the inaccessible health insurance services, lack of education about the available ...

Healthcare settings are supposed to be at the forefront in making sure that the services which they provide to patients are of high quality and also meet the minimum requirements of patient safety. Such a realization is also extended towards the prevention of adverse conditions which are considered to have severe adverse effects on the wellbeing of individuals receiving inpatient care (Joice et al., 2013). These conditions have come to be referred to as ‘never events’ since even though they are serious, they can be easily prevented. Additionally, these conditions have been found to be of significant concerns to ...

In the recent past, governments through the health department have been calling for the increase in outpatient services among health care facilities considering that payers have come up with incentives as a way of reducing hospitalization charges in addition to the length of stay. As a result, a new shift oriented towards payment for performance and accountability in health care provision has emerged in addition to health organizations concentrating on medicine for preventive health, educating of patients, and care changes. Today, the most affordable medical therapy is offered in ambulatory care setting, yet the outcomes of adverse drug events ...

Introduction

Thesis: The registered nurse role has the nurse at its center and how they maintain an effective environment for the delivery of organized patient care services. Argument: It is important to consider how the registered nurses provide care, how they improve the care environment, and how the people they serve view the care.

Registered Nurses’ Vocational Nursing Job Duties

Nursing is characterized by legal and ethical principles Nurses are expected to assume responsibility for nursing actions that are within the defined legal and ethical tenets They take professional responsibility Harmonious Environment Involves the interaction between man and the environment They need to create a supportive ...

Introduction

As with any organization in any industry, health care organizations are also driven by the need for cost effectiveness. However, in addition to this, healthcare organizations must also ensure that the needs of the community and the health care requirements of all members of the community are addressed adequately. As the emphasis on cost control, patient safety, quality of care increases, there is a need for health care organizations to move away from their current organizational models and adopt more dynamic models that are designed with the needs of the patient as the focal point and which also address ...

1. Compare Kendall Regional Medical Center data and rankings with Lower keys medical center and the state or national averages in the category of patient experiences, and timely and effective care. While comparing the patient survey summary star rating of Kendall Regional Medical Center with that of Lower Keys Medical Center, it seems that both the hospital have achieved two-star rating out of five. When 73% patients of Kendall reported that their nurses had ‘always’ communicated well, the same thing was reported by 71% of Lower Keys’ patients (Kendall, Hospital compare). Compared to the state average (76%) and national ...

Introduction

With the passage of time, development and increasing concerns for the patient care and safety requires attention. Healthcare institutions are constantly engaged in improving healthcare quality through inducing innovative healthcare practices for the provision of patient safety. For the delivery of improving quality healthcare services, it is important to ensure that the working conditions and working environment is equipped with the standard needs of the healthcare institution. Nursing remains to be core area in the healthcare organization for patient care and safety (Patricia, Mooney-Kane, & Larson, 2007). In contemporary times, with the healthcare worker shortage and reported errors in the ...

In the nursing profession, there are a number of safeguards and decision-making support tools that can be used for the improvement of patient safety outcomes. Such technologies usually involve the integration of patient notes with information from current research to provide an insight into the patients’ needs (Degenholtz et al., 2016). Software combining information about the patient such as allergies, current medications, and demographic information with current recommendations for care work as both a safeguard and a decision-making tool. Implementation of these protocols works as a defensive mechanism as they help in the prevention of over-medication or other medication ...

The information presented in the brochure is very informative; it emphasizes the role of pain management in patient-centered care and clarifies the position of The Joint Commission on standards in pain management. The brochure also gives a historical background to standards in pain management and the progress in development and adoption of better standards. It also highlights ongoing debates in the medical community such as whether pain should be considered a vital sign. Under treatment of pain is a major challenge in the endeavor to increase the quality of health services and make it patient-centered. Standards in pain management ...

The Ethical and Legalities of Medication Disclosure Error

In nursing, it is quite uncommon that patients are sometimes exposed to risks of particular harms. Such harms may be erroneous and unintentional. The errors in a sense may be unpredictable and a proper informed consent may not be easily obtained. Some prescription errors might not necessarily materialize to harm while others could be fatal. This paper is going to look into the ethical and legalities of prescription disclosure error by a nurse and the proper way to write a prescription while minimizing the possibility of a nurse running into an error. When an error occurs during the process ...

Infections in hospital settings are a challenge in nursing because of the potential dangers that they pose to a wide number of patients. Bloodstream infections from central lines are particularly hazardous as they affect patients that are already vulnerable, meaning that they contribute to morbidity and mortality in the hospital setting (Rinke et al., 2012). Although the rates of central-line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI) can be reduced by up to 67% through the introduction of checklists (Schulman et al., 2011), the issue continues to be important in a wide number of hospital settings. It is also important to understand the ...

The Institute of Medicine (2001) highlighted that the U.S. health care system harms patients and frequently fail to deliver the potential benefits expected. In this regards, the issue of “culture of safety” is central in most health care institutions including the correctional facilities. Specter (2006) noted that hundreds of prisoners die due to medical neglect, brutality, and suicide stressing the need for safety of the patients in the correctional institutions. In my working station, the nurse leader is the leading promoter of patient safety during medical processes. The nurse manager has the responsibility to communicate evidence-based changes needed to ...

Chamberlain College of Nursing

Introduction The brochure by the joint commission is titled "speak up". The brochure has no date to show when it was published because the brochure is printed to remain relevant as time goes by. To suffice this effect, the brochure is written in the first person and talks to the reader directly. The brochure answers important questions that a patient might have. The booklet is brief and straight to the point. The information benefits the patient, family and close friends to the patient and the general public. The information in the brochure is intended to appear as common knowledge ...

The EBP process is accomplished to the fullest when the recommendations and the evidence are utilized to cause a change within the organization. The EBP process is the interplay between research, education and practice and therefore forms a core for the implementation and adoption of change within an organization. It is the process that offers a viable plan to accomplish a change in respect to a particular research question or problem that has been identified within the setting (Dearholt & Dang, 2012). EBP is concerned about the specific interventions to a specific situation based on tangible evidence and data as ...

Importance of NSQI Measures

I would advise that NSQI measures should be compulsorily included in a Quality Improvement program to achieve enhanced outcomes. Nursing-sensitive indicators assist healthcare facilities to form a great understanding of the relationship between patient outcomes and the quality of nursing care they provide. In other words, nursing-sensitive indicators are really helpful for a facility to identify the areas of improvement, which is inevitable for designing and implementing a Quality Improvement program effectively. In addition, nursing-sensitive indicators are beneficial to justify the need for increased nursing staff, which is also an integral part of a Quality Improvement program. These indicators ...

The Patient’s Bill of Rights refers to a written law or declaration that contains a list of minimum guarantees to which every patient is entitled such as fair treatment, autonomy regarding medical decisions and confidentiality of patient information. Adopted in 1995, this Bill of Rights gives every American patient the right and freedom against discrimination based on medical condition, to consult a physician of their choosing, purchase medical care of their choice and to be given full disclosure of the healthcare insurance plan. With the enactment of the ACA in 2010, President Obama introduced more regulations that would ...

‘Culture of safety’ at Kendall Regional Medical Center

While analyzing the efficiency of Kendall Regional Medical Center based on how well it has accomplished a ‘culture of safety’ that focuses on addressing systemic/process rather than individual errors, it seems that the organization deserves B grade. It is identified that recently the organization has taken a number of initiatives to improve its process efficiency. The major ongoing initiatives include preventing blood clots in patient’s legs following a surgery, achieving time-oriented emergency care, enhancing care competencies through staff training programs. These initiatives would assist Kendall Regional Medical Center to establish a culture of safety in the organization and ...

Healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs) cause significant preventable mortality and mobility but the healthcare workers (HCWs) still regard them as much less of a threat to the safety of patients when compared to adverse reactions caused by errors in medication administration and falls (Aziz, 2014). The incidences of HCAIs is a key patient safety indicator which can be improved by offering a safe environment to the patient while treating and caring for them. According to Aziz (2014), “The single most common way of transferring the microorganisms that cause HCAIs is on the hands of HCWs” (p. 433). It is for this ...

There are a number of safeguards and decision-making support tools that can be used to improve patient safety outcomes in the nursing profession. Technologies such as these usually involve the integration of patient notes with information from current research to provide insight into the needs of the patient (Degenholtz et al., 2016). Software that combine information about the patient (such as allergies, current medications, and demographic information) with current recommendations for care work as both a safeguard and a decision-making tool. Implementation of these protocols work as a safeguard because they prevent over-medication or other medication errors that harm ...

This response gives a lot of information about the six different subjects a risk manager should include in a curriculum designed for physicians to engage them in patient safety practices. The six main characteristics identified in this response are: patient care, medical knowledge, practice-based learning and improvement, communication skills, professionalism, and practice. Each of these is not only an important component of being a good nurses is also important for patient safety. This response carefully considered each of the six different subjects that are associated with risk. It would have been useful to know how the six different subject ...

Part A

Hospital Acquired Infections Health care system is a very dynamic field that changes periodically; the practices that were deemed to be the most effective a decade ago may be rendered less useful or obsolete in the present day care. The changes are basically due to changes in patient needs, the emergence of new technologies, improved science research findings that develop new care methods as well as changes in healthcare policies and regulations. For example in the United States, the increase in the size of an aging population means an increase in number of patients that will suffer from chronic ...

Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) can be termed as the integration and option of best research evidence with clinical expertise, skill and patient values. It seeks to improve the care process and the care outcomes based on the evidence collected over time and tailoring that to the needs of the patients within a particular setting. The EBP process is aimed at improving judgment and decision making but this is also based on the experience of the nurse in understanding the research evidence and relating the same to specific scenarios within the clinical setting. It is a process that is facilitated by ...

IM/IT Analysis

Question one

Patient Care Applications Features The introduction of information technology led to improvements in patient-centered care applications. Patient Care Applications are IT tools used by healthcare organizations that enhance and supplement communication between patients and healthcare providers. The main features include patient information recording (admission/discharge/transfer), report generation, and communication equipment, patient care plans, scheduling, and nurse staffing processes. Patient care applications have many capabilities in a healthcare setting.

Capabilities

The main capability of patient care application includes the support of the delivery of quality care to patients by making available their medical records to healthcare providers in an effective ...

WGU

A. Table of Contents Professional Resume – presents my clinical knowledge, skills, experience, and philosophy to potential employers Executive Summary – provides an overview of the contents of the portfolio Professional Reference Questionnaire – presents the objective and subjective evaluation of my key behaviors and clinical performance by one of my professional references Importance of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) – discusses the need to develop knowledge and skills in quality leadership in order to improve the quality and safety of patient care and promote holistic, patient-centered care

Copy of IHI certificate of completion – serves to validate my completion of the IHI Organizational Systems and Quality Leadership course

Evidence-based Practice – summarizes an evidence-based research project on hand hygiene Applied Leadership – summarizes my ...

Nurses play a critical role in the provision of quality care and patient safety. Various studies show that there is a significant direct correlation between adequate nurse staffing and patient outcomes in hospitals. For example, a hospital with good nurse-patient ratios records better patient outcomes in various aspects such as mortality and reduced cases of failure-to-rescue (Agency for Health Research and Quality, 2015). There is, however, lack of good understanding of how nurse staffing ratios connect with patient outcomes. There are two possible ways to rationalize the relationship between patient outcomes and nurse staffing ratios; one is the quantity ...