Health Action Process Approach

During some point in this lifetime, we all have experienced mistakes. Therefore, no one is exempted. In health care, mistakes can be the consequence of illness or injury or even mortality. The organizations in health care challenged with the pressure to improve the quality of care, decrease utilization, and minimizing costs. Therefore, the physicians, nurses, and other healthcare providers must attempt to increase the efficiency and quality of patient care. However, these goals can be attainable…

Clinical safety is improved through healthcare providers collaboratively learning from their misjudgements and mistakes, showing an interest towards a culture of change and having a whole system approach toward effective problem solving. (Tella et. al. 2015.) This improvement throughout healthcare sectors minimises medical inaccuracies and aids the avoidance of common practice errors to better promote the safety of patients. Due to nurses being in close proximity to patients and being their…

who experience illness and suffering. Its foundations give sustenance to a practice where quality has become an essential element for the profession. The nursing approach to quality and effectiveness of patient’s treatment dates back to past times. Quality is as important as health, therefore, the nursing staff, as a member of the health team, must develop a culture of quality and join the programs with the proactive attitude. Quality in nursing care is a complex concept that includes…

some restructuring of their values and attitudes. Clients get a better idea of what kind of life they consider worthy to live and develop a clearer sense of their internal valuing process. In the third phase, the therapist focuses on helping clients take what they are learning about themselves and put it into action, to find ways of implementing their examined and internalized values in a concrete way. Clients typically discover their strengths and find ways to put them to the service of…

are required to make responsible judgments, decisions, and actions. Consequently, they have to uphold the ethics governing the profession, and guarantee quality and safety when making decisions related to patients. In addition, nurses should respect patients and remain free of prejudice due to their social or economic status, individual attributes, or medical conditions (Winland-Brown, Lachman, & Swanson, 2015a). Nurses should promote health and care, preserve wholeness of character and honesty,…

different approaches to health. Which one do you feel is a prevalent or dominant paradigm in promoting health in Canadian society? Explain why. Illustrate your answer with a current social/environmental problem or social/environmental issue. The social sciences offer an enlarged understanding of the scope of health studies and health policy. In particular, sociology & political science have identified and investigated critical questions about the different meanings of health, the influence of…

based on the video “To Clot or Not to Clot; That is the Question” recorded by the Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital. The video describes the performance improvement techniques applied during the Surgical Care Improvement Project. This paper provides a list of relevant actions taken by the health professionals to significantly improve the quality of patient care. Moreover, this paper focuses on two relevant actions of the care team: bringing stakeholders such as clinicians and nurses…

psychologist at a mental health center where are currently employed (Dougherty, 2010). The counselor is seeking help to gain knowledge on how to work with a client who is terminally ill (Dougherty, 2010). The client is in denial of her terminal illness, but continues counseling to meet her social needs (Dougherty, 2010). The client will continue to discuss issues with the counselor about everything except for death and her illness (Dougherty, 2010). The best consultant approach used for this…

(Walsh & Downe, 2012). The qualitative research is an interesting process of collecting information and interpreting it based on the research problems and questions. Therefore, as the part of the research methodology, reviewing literature and integrating…

traditional rational planning approach. In particular, this reflection expands on communicative planning (sometimes called collaborative planning), an approach based on the use of communication to help different interests in the process understand each other. Moreover, this is not only a semantic discussion, but an epistemological discussion on the concepts of consensus, communication and democracy. Although the majority of these scholars claim Habermas’ theory of communicative action as a…