Healthcare quality

interaction within the medical team of doctors, nurses, physician assistants, ward staff and other allied healthcare professionals that enables quality patient care being provided. Without the beautiful collage of professionalism, medicine just won’t function well. As the saying goes, a team is only as strong as its weakest member, embracing collaboration between different members of the healthcare team is significant in…

Effective communication is vital among individuals in the healthcare team. Ineffective communication can lead to medical errors, a decrease in desired patient outcomes as well as decreased patient satisfaction. Many factor contribute to ineffective communication in the healthcare system, these factors include but are not limited to increase demand for healthcare and increase demand on healthcare providers to generate more revenue. This demand has resulted in providers sacrificing…

hospital to evaluate if the standards of quality were met or not. Accordingly what was discovered was that the staff specifically the nurses were not reporting medication errors either not on time or not even done at all. Frances Ballentine RN, MSN, VP for Nursing Services at this hospital assigned by the CEO to fix the problem and the problems resulting from not completing these necessary regulatory forms. She was given a six month period to improve a new quality process that can be applied…

Oregon and the Nation The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) in 2008, proposed a joint partnership with the Institute of Medicine (IOM) began to investigate the nursing profession and the impending need for transformation in light of a reforming healthcare system and increasing nursing shortage (Institute of Medicine [IOM], 2011). So a two-year initiative committee was founded and the work began. The initiative, which the committee was charged with was the production of a report which…

Electronic health records is the process of replacing traditional paper medical records according to Shi & Singh (2013, p. 109). Electronic health records have the potential to save time, eliminate errors and duplications, as well as improve the quality of health care delivery. However with all these different possibilities come limitations such as accuracy and potential financial cost that immerge as concerns. HITECH Act, The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical health Act…

Meaningful use has greatly impacted healthcare interoperability by implementing certified electronic health records (EHR). With EHR put into act we are now able to view real time information of patients medical history, past and current medications, immunization dates, any diagnoses or allergies, as well as testing and lab reports. It contains all complete and accurate information to give providers access to evidence based tools when making decisions of a patients care. Some EHRs now allow…

the Navy, so getting my B.S in Healthcare Management was a great fit. People would ask why I did not pursue an RN or LPN career? My…

from the behavior of the organization’s associates. In healthcare, employee aggression and inappropriate behaviors contribute to poor clinical outcomes. As exemplars, negative employee behaviors increase the risk of error, delays in care, conflict, and stress for all healthcare workers, and adverse events (AACN, 2005). Bullying behaviors can manifest negatively throughout an healthcare organization emotionally, verbally, or by…

is critical to the success of a patient’s overall health outcome as well as the general prosperity and growth of the healthcare organization. Therefore, the levels of communication and techniques of health literacy disbursed by an organization must be adequately and effectively assessed to exhibit and deliver a clear representation of the patient populations utilizing the healthcare facility. Understanding what a provider knows and their methods of communication towards their patient populations…

of the population ages 65 and older outnumber the youth demographic (fourteen years and younger). This is according to the Canadian Institute for Health Information (2011). The Institute also states that the senior’s population requires the most healthcare and they also require the most funding due to the frequency of visits to hospitals and clinics (Canadian Institute for Health Information, 2011, p.9). It has been predicted that as the population ages there will be issues with the financial…