Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act

stated in her book Notes on Hospitals, published in 1859, “the very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm” (Chilton, 2008). Nightingale’s 150-year old expectation continues to hold firm in healthcare today. When patients are admitted to the hospital, nurses are held to a high level of standard to provide care across the life span. Imagine when that standard of care is not met though, and a patient’s health is threatened through a preventable…

In 2005 the Patient Safety and Quality Act, or PSQIA, was established; the significance being that the Federal Government wanted to establish a commitment to creating a culture of patient safety and confidentiality. This act is incredibly involved; requiring doctors and physicians to undergo observations and evaluations to ensure that there is no malpractice of any kind. The PSQIA created Patient Safety Organizations to analyze, gather, and create a specialized conglomerate of information that…

Top Patient safety issues in Health Care Facility As clients and patient’s expectations rise, patient care becomes more difficult finding that outdated approaches to defining, organizing, and operating quality assurance functions are no longer suitable. More and more, health care organization are becoming devoted that improving quality needs a comprehensive approach. Continuous quality improvement of all kinds improve performance through reducing poor quality delivery of service rather than…

discrepancies between the optimal patient care and current care is provided. That issue was addressed by the Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI) Which establish measures to encourage improvement of patient safety and quality of care. Ultimately, the government of Ontario issued a bill and some specific acts to overcome this issue. Grand River Hospital (GRH) includes over 3,500 staff who serve over 23,391 newly admitted patients and almost 281,824 patients through outpatient clinics,…

(continuous quality improvement)- CQI is a doctrine that motives health care professionals to continuously ask open-ended questions: “how are we doing?” and “Can process be improve for efficiency?” or “Are services provided in a timely manner?” these questions will aid them to improve quality care. Some of the principles of CQI include: Infrastructure supports systematic implementation of quality improvement, having an ongoing quality improvement activities which will improve patient care, and…

Quality Improvement Quality improvements are necessary in solving problems within a healthcare system. Efforts to improve quality, needs to be measurable and demonstrate a need for change; “lead to change in the primary end point in the desired direction, contribute to unintended results in different parts of the system, and require additional efforts to bring a process back into acceptable ranges” (Hughes, 2008, p. 3, para. 2). Measuring quality improvements is having good performance that…

practice principles, to educate staff and maintain high standards of patient care. Criteria audits can also assist in hospitals understanding compliance to standards ensuring that sufficient safety and infection control methods are being appropriately utilised. The purpose of the criteria audit is to identify and review evidence intended to support and understand clinical practices while focusing on patient safety and improving patient outcomes of cholecystectomy surgery. This literature review…

diverse organization that is dedicated to its employees, patients, their families, and the community it serves. John Hopkins has spent substantial amount of time, energy, and resources to address and improve patient safety understanding that, like any other area of medicine, science must guide the way to improvement. With a need to train physicians, nurses, medical students and administrators in this evolving area of the science of safety, it found that the best approach is to have that training…

ever-competitive healthcare market, patient safety, and quality of care is one of the top factors of an organizations survival. Quality improvement (QI) and safety have become a major component of our larger healthcare organization, because they value our patients, employees, and families, but why are we not following in their footsteps? A particular new idea that would be useful in a smaller unit is an action board, which allows anyone to write down a particular quality or safety problem…

Importance of Nursing Informatics Healthcare is an ever-changing system that requires adaptability to the most up-to-date patient care advancements and improvements. Informatics specialized nurses are dedicated to the advancement and improvement of nursing, information, computer and cognitive sciences that are vital to the enhancement of patient health. Informatics specialized nurses collect, manage and disseminate essential nursing “data, information, knowledge and wisdom” to provide superior…