Background Nurses are challenged by the Institute of Medicine (2010) to practice to the fullest extent of their licensure and scope of practice in order to deliver results that will provide value to the healthcare consumer in a cost effective, customer satisfying, high quality and safe way. Understanding one’s ability to perform in the nursing leadership role requires insight and self-reflection. This exercise in the self-evaluation of learning, using the American Nurses Association’s scope and standards of practice, provides a platform for future educational actions that will enhance and help fulfill the greatest potential for one’s nursing practice. The following questions address the learning needs of this MSN student, and will serve to guide the Waynesburg University Practicum experience.…
Receiving an accreditation in joint commission helps the organization understand the importance of health and safety care by providing quality care. Based on the organizations survey they can then determine which accreditations are right for them. According to the joint commission there are many benefits that are entailed with this accreditation starting with patient safety, community confidence, competitive edge a decreased risk of reduction and liability costs (TJC, 2018). Illustrating that certification through JACHO is essential in improving organization compliance and reduce the redundancy of patient testing.…
I agree with you on supporting The Joint Commission (TJC) on their mission on patient safety, nursing education and research. Ultimately, there needs to be an overseer to ensure facilities are meeting standards on patient care and service quality. The purpose of the TJC survey and accreditation is to enhance patient care outcomes (Mason, Gardner, Outlaw, & O’ Grady, 2016). Healthcare facilities need to be held accountable for service delivered as well as the meeting the nursing staff education needs. There is a huge emphasize on the use of evidence based practice because it has been clinically proven to be the best type patient care according to the most recent research.…
According to the article, Registered nurses ranked fifth of all occupations resulting in a musculoskeletal injury and Nursing assistants reported 25,010 cases, the highest for any occupation (ANA, 2013). Why is this? Construction workers or manufactory workers deal with heavier equipment and are in usually more dangerous situations than healthcare workers are. Two high risk tasks One high risks task I can think of would be transferring patients.…
Joint Commission formally known as the Joint Commission Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) is and independent, non-for-profit organization (JCAHO, 2015). JCAHO was found in 1951 it role is too provided safely and quality care that received by health care organization throughout the United States. Therefore, before the commission can reach any goals they are using a measurement system which helps with survey’s to grant accreditation to healthcare organization that is other role joint commission has.…
The QSEN initiative was first introduced during my basic nursing training as a means to summarize the quality and safety material presented throughout the program. It had not been fully integrated into the curriculum, due to its newness. However, after becoming more largely adopted among nursing schools, it became required knowledge for graduation. 2.…
The Joint Commission and Patient Safety For more than twenty-five years, The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organization (JCAHO), which is renamed as The Joint Commission (TJC), has published every year The Patient Safety Goals to be implemented by all healthcare institutions nationwide. In 2009, TJC established the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Health Care. As the quality-improvement arm of TJC, the center embarked in addressing patient safety problems in hospitals. On top of the safety issues identified is communication.…
Day Hospital Patient Satisfaction Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center's mission is to improve the health of our region, state, and nation. Generating and translating knowledge to prevent diagnose and treat disease, training leaders in health care and biomedical science, and serving as the premier health system in our region, with specific centers of excellence recognized as national and international care destinations is their mission statement. ("Mission Statement - Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center," 2015). Day Hospital is an observation unit that is located on 11 North Tower (NT), 5 Cancer Center (CC), and includes IV Infusion, which is also located on the fifth floor North Tower. On 11 North Tower, the unit consists of 26 outpatient…
The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) was established in 1976 with the goal to restrain frauds, abuses, and wastes in healthcare services for Medicare, Medicaid, and other Health and Human Services. OIG advises healthcare organizations to follow the OIG guidelines on establishing effective compliance and ethical policies. The policies will help organizations to identify and stop inappropriate performance from happening. The content of each policy will be determined by individual healthcare organization. However, OIG recommends seven basic steps that healthcare organizations should use to construct their procedures (Safian, 2009, p. 40).…
The Joint Commission (TJC) is an independent, nonprofit organization that evaluates and accredits health care organizations in the United States. Their purpose is to improve general health care by evaluating these organizations and making sure they provide safe and effective care of the highest quality (The Joint Commission, 2017). The Joint Commission created the National Patient Safety Goals (NPSG) in 2002 to help recognize areas of concern in patient safety. The NPSG is developed and updated by a panel of nurses, physicians, pharmacists, risk managers, clinical engineers, and other professionals who have experience in dealing with patient safety issues in a variety of settings (The Joint Commission, 2016). This panel works with TJC to find…
Over 600,000 American men lost their lives in the Civil War. Most of these men perished from disease and complications from wounds on the battlefield. Over 300,000 were wounded and needed medical care in camps and hospitals. Compassionate and devoted women compelled to support and assist in the war effort gathered supplies and offered their services by volunteering as nurses. Inspired by Florence Nightingale’s work during the Crimean War, many critical relief agencies have been established throughout history (Geisberg, 2000).…
What are the key operational indicators necessary to manage effective services to patients in a medical group practice? All group practices should have a quality improvement committee. What can we do to improve the quality of care, reduce the cost of care and increase patient safety in a medical group practice? What types of risk do we need to manage? Finally, how do we improve patient safety?…
As nurses, quality and safety in regards to patient care is our main priority. This being…
The measure of standards is governed by an element of people’s point of view. (Lippincott et al, 2013) A nurse may consider a certain kind of service delivery as a perfect delivery. In contrast the patient may find the delivery rather below par and unacceptable In medical practice, a team of nurses associated with patient attendance should work together in setting standards of service delivery. One mode of eliminating individualistic standards among nurses is by creating a conceptual framework which governs the standards of service delivery. Quality service delivery statements and protocols can assist in alignment of standards.…
Patient safety, my last key point, aligns with the supporting resource, Professional Collaboration: Who Should Determine Safe Staffing for Nurses?" because this resource demonstrates that when there is enough staff to care for clients, the rate of mortality decreases…