Organizational Systems & Quality Leadership Task 2 Healthcare organizations are required by their accrediting agencies to demonstrate methods of investigating sentinel events. Root cause analysis (RCA) is a systematic approach to investigating sentinel events used by institutions accredited by the Joint Commission. Once this process helps to identify the causes of the event and a plan to correct the causes, the failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) is used to identify and decrease the ways the plan could fail. The task analyses these processes and the professional nurse’s role as a leader in the promotion of quality care. A. Root Cause Analysis…
The Joint Commission determines and sets goals for each year, which traditionally mirror federal expectations for healthcare. These goals generally highlight specific safety concerns that are problematic and affect healthcare systems nationwide. For 2016, hospital goals include patient identification, communication, medication safety, alarm safety, healthcare associated infection, falls, pressure ulcers, risk management and universal protocol (TJC, 2016). Within each goal are sub-goals that further address the concerns and identify evidence based practices to ensure success in the prevention of patient harm in each of these areas. During tracers, the auditors focus on these goals and are looking to validate that each of these goals is achieved through implementation of policies and procedures and they will review the processes in which these policies and procedures were implemented and checked for continuous…
In order to collect data to found out the root of the problem on why the preregistration rate is 16%. I would do a Root Cause Analysis (RCA) according to Kelly, (2011) “a Root Cause Analysis focuses primarily on systems and process not individual performance (p.148). ” Using RCA will help me organize and document causes of the preregistration process by monitoring the process from when a patient calls in for an appointment, how long it takes for receptionist to answer the phone and verbally confirm an appointment, how long it takes for a patient to preregister in the system and how long it takes for the financial department to receive patient’s health care information. Monitoring each process will help me better understand the time it takes…
On of the many issues that was brought up in the “Chasing Zero” video was harsh punishments for health care professionals who make mistakes. The reason I choose this particular issue is because I believe it plays a key role in all health care errors. Every single health care error that is made is a learning opportunity. Taking an error and doing something constructive with it can lead to incredible improvements in patient safety. When this is not utilized, patients and health care professionals are penalized.…
Patient safety is an important issue in today’s healthcare. The Joint Commission (2015) has always developed yearly patient safety goals increasing the importance this concept has (The Joint Commission, 2015). Patient safety it is considered a discipline in the health care sector. It is used to apply safety science methods to achieve a reliable and responsible system of health care delivery. It is also a feature of the health care systems.…
Students, Good evening! I can’t believe it, but we have come to the end of Week Two. Thanks everyone for some interesting and stimulating discussions on the discussion board. I was very impressed by the respectful exchange and the stimulating chatter that ensued across the board. Anyway, as you might remember, this past week, we discussed several topics, including, your personal experiences with policy making and implementation, use of the PDSA cycle, and the Affordable Care Act.…
A popular report from the IOM Core Competencies was, To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System (1999). The report explored the status of safety in the United States healthcare delivery system. The report revealed major safety issues in hospitals. The problem with the report is that although it was conducted, there is limited research on how hospitals are fixing the problems revealed in this…
Furthermore, it involves the identification of steps in a process that has the potential in helping to eliminate or reduce the occurrence of failure (Vincent, 2010) 1. Identification of the interdisciplinary team members who will be incorporated in the FMEA. The members include the Registered Nurse (RN), Health Care Assistant (HCA), Director of Nursing (DON), Licensed Practicing Nurse (LPN), Doctor, a STAT CODE team, and CHR team (Corporate Health Resources). 2.…
Background University of Missouri hospital is a Level I trauma center located in Columbia, Missouri that treats some of the most complicated injuries and illnesses. University Hospital’s trauma team cares for more than 25,000 emergency room patients each year. In addition, University Hospital boasts 247 patient beds and has a seven-story critical care tower equipped with the latest medical technology. University Hospital also offers hundreds of different surgical procedures in their state of the art operating rooms. The mission of University of Missouri Health Care System is to advance the care of patients and promotes the research and education mission of the University of Missouri (MU Health, 2017).…
Introduction In the forever growing world of health care risk management, anticipates the risk is crucial to help the health care organization by minimizing the exposure of adverse risk event to the safety of the patients, staff, and other visitors to the health care organization. Risk is defined as an event of probability of happening which could have either a positive of negative impact on the health care organization should the risk event occur. Risk event could have the probability of causing one or more risk at the same time if the adverse risk event should occur and could also have one or more impact on the health care organization. For example, a health care organization skipped last month’s maintenance evaluation, this could put potential…
According to the MSN program conceptual framework, a nurse detective uses clinical imagination along with science to evaluate deviations from the expected to prevent or control adverse reactions (WGU, 2013) To apply the role of “Nurse as Detective” I will apply the model element safety and quality. Working as a Clinical Coordinator on an Orthopedic unit I recognize how vital safety and quality are for patient care. Utilizing this element will reduce risks to providers, patients, and families by using analysis of effectiveness of systems that are in place, as well as individual performances. This can be achieved simply by applying the nursing process.…
Lewin’s theory includes three major concepts: equilibrium, driving forces, and restraining forces. Equilibrium is a state of being where driving forces equal restraining forces, and no change occurs. It can be raised or lowered by changes that occur between the driving and restraining forces. At the beginning the system is at “equilibrium”, everyone involved believes that they are doing all that they can do and that the system is the greatest it can be. In order for change to occur there needs to be motivation for change.…
To: Randall Strutz, MBA 733 instructor From: Jordan Joseph Subject: Comprehensive Problem- Company Analysis Date: November 3, 2016 Company Analysis WZB Athletic Supply, Inc. has released its annual report. This report includes a five-year financial summary for the fiscal years 2016-2020. Financial summaries are used to help investors throughout the decision making process of investing in a company’s common stock.…
In the U.S., the third leading cause of death is not a topic the general public knows and talks about: medical mistakes. According to the Journal of Patient Safety, between 210,000 and 440,000 patients suffer some type of harm. The medical system should change so there are more people double-checking every detail, the hours of doctors shifts are reduced and the topic of medical malpractice is openly discussed. In life or death situations, every small detail needs to be checked and double checked to reduce the likelihood of error. There are far too many examples where negligence by any of the medical staff has led to a patient suffering the consequences.…
Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION An automotive manufacturing industry aims at meeting the customer requirement by providing the good quality of product. So many company focus to reach the global market in satisfying the customer demand. Quality of the product is achieved by minimization of rework, reducing scrap rate and minimizing man hour on rework. Rejections in automotive industry occur due to not placing the product for required specification.…