Healthcare quality

Managing Health Care Quality Health Care in an industry where its achievement will be determined by the quality of care that is delivered. Patients are at the forefront of health care organizations, consequently it is vital that they are receiving superb care since this will determine which facilities they select for their health care needs. Organizations must be up to date with technological advances, and must ensure that the staff is competent to deliver superior care. Overall the Patrons are…

3. What is the impact of the policy to this institution (economic, implementation, services, etc.)? The objective of the Joint Commission standard is to focus on quality improvement, not blame. The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations has recently instituted new standards to encourage facilities to focus on infection control. Factoring in, all hospitals are required by the Joint Commission to demonstrate compliance with hand washing practices. The handwashing practices…

The main problem to be addressed by this quality improvement plan is the reduced adherence to the evidence-based practices, surgical procedures and practice guidelines. This especially includes nurses working within the outpatient surgical service facility. The non-compliance to EBPs has significantly contributed to the rising rate of occurrence of surgical site infections (Daeschlein, et al. 2014). Other studies have also supported the increased non-compliance to the EBPs in surgical…

The Effect of Interpersonal Medical Service Encounters Between Nurses and Patients on Trust, Service Quality and Patient Satisfaction A. Background and Summary Patients who seek medical attention come in contact with numerous medical professions and each of these has an active role that they play towards meeting the demands of the patient. However, nurses play a central role in ensuring that the environment around the patient is conducive for their recovery. Therefore, in a patient centered…

Approximately 720,000 healthcare associated infections (HAIs) occur annually in the United States, with more than half of all HAIs occurring outside of the intensive care unit (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2016). Additionally, about 75,000 patients with HAIs died during their hospitalizations (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2016). Catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CA-UTIs) are the one of the most common hospital-acquired infection, with an estimated 93…

information used in healthcare organizations is expert or knowledge base information which is generally collected or created by expert to be not part of the organization. The information is used to further assist healthcare providers…

the data utilized in healthcare organizations or businesses are the foundation of the success, especially dealing with health information. Studies in recent years on data quality show where the state of data quality measured poorly. It found that the storage of records up to 20 percent was significantly affected (Johns, 2015). Findings also indicated that up to 80 percent of the records regarding consent of physician-patient encounter was did not add up (Johns, 2015). Data quality management in…

Quality measures are well known amongst healthcare organizations across the United States. The Medicaid system is built upon quality measures that tie directly into the payment system. In promoting quality measures amongst organizations the U.S. has developed a reporting system known as Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality AHRQ to build awareness. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) has defined healthcare quality as, “the degree to which health services for individuals and populations increase…

level of organizational support as reported by hospital support staff? • What factors hinder effective infection control practices in the hospitals? 1.4 STUDY JUSTIFICATION It is evident that nosocomial infections cause a substantial upset to the quality of health care. If the hospital stay is elongated by infections acquired in the hospital, the patient satisfaction level is lowered. Despite the huge effort put in researching on Hospital-acquired infections, literature is limited in the…

A root cause analysis (RCA) is a process used to determine why an incident or error occurred and used to develop effective solutions to prevent a reoccurrence. This process addresses three basic questions, what is the problem, why did it occur, and what can be done to prevent it (Root Cause Analysis, nd)? The root cause analysis is not designed to point fingers at individuals, its purpose is to help fix the issues or problems within systems or processes. Improvement is the goal, not to blame.…