Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act

for -service structure to value- based structure, in my opinion has forced the health care profession to restructure the way it do business. Many organizations within the health care industry are now utilizing more business models to provide high quality care at the lowest price. In fact many health care organizations that have shifted their strategies toward value-based are afforded certain advantages. Those advantages include: financial stability, positive relationships with physicians,…

BENCHMARKERS. Is level of quality that can be used as a standard when comparing other things like outstanding performances or to measure the quality of something by comparing it with something else of an accepted standard (Cambridge University Press, 2016). The Benchmarking network, the in-house benchmarking service of the NHS, it exists to identify and share good practice across the health and social care sector. The delivery of good outcomes and excellent patient experience is part of the…

Sine California passed the law that mandated a safe staffing act; there have been seven other states that adopted laws in regard to staffing for nurses. These states include Oregon, Washington, Ohio Illinois, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Texas. The difference between the other seven states and California, however, is that California has a fixed nursing-to-patient ratio. Majority of the other states tend to model the American Nurses Association Safe Staffing Principles model, which only requires…

Quality Improvement in High Fall-Risk Patients There are many reasons why patients are at risk for falling; some of them are sensory deficits, medications and altered mental status. Nurses have a moral obligation to provide and help maintain a safe environment for patients who are at risk for falls; therefore, it is of utmost importance to identify this population and determine the best solution to combat this ongoing problem. Trepanier and Hilsenbeck (2014) states “there is a need to identify…

Medical errors encompass any preventable harm to a patient that occurs because a healthcare professional’s behavior fell below a required standard level of care. Unfortunately, medical errors occur with staggering regularity and are considered a public health issue. Recent studies place the yearly number of patients in the U.S. affected by preventable human error to be close to one million with an annual associated cost to the U.S. healthcare system of $17-29 billion (Guillod, 2013). In…

There are many challenges that affect the direction of health care today. Proposed health care reform and legislation, accreditation, quality of healthcare, and organizational compliance, economics, including third party payers, future funding, rising costs, the Medicare and Medicaid programs, access to health care including the uninsured and those in poverty and the elderly, and maintaining a skilled workforce have created many obstacles for providers (Ashford, 2016). Healthcare reform and…

for improvement (IHI, 2004). Step Six: Evaluate the results by adding up the individual RPNs for each failure mode. Step Seven: Use RPNs to plan improvement efforts to reduce ad prevent CLABSIs. Failure modes with higher RPNs (scores closer to 1,000) warrant the most focus improvement efforts. Failure modes with lower RPNs (scores closer to 1) should, therefore, take the least priority (IHI, 2004). Plan-Do-Study-Act Model The Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) Model is a favored quality improvement…

trade policy. Baldrige served in this position until his death on July 25, 1987. Due to Baldrige's excellent managerial skills and his contributions leading to improvements in the economy, the Quality Improvement Act of 1987 was renamed the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award after his death. The purpose of The Baldrige National Quality Award is to give recognition to businesses and organizations for their outstanding and excellent performance and service. “The award was originally…

about the quality of care provided the administration decided to undergo a “broad organizational transformation.” This transformation included many things to improve patient and employee satisfaction, as well as, safety. Resource redistribution, reevaluation of quality and value standards, and creation of a department-wide database to enable patients, clinicians, and administrators were the top priorities for this change (McCarthy and Blumenthal, 2006). The National Center for Patient Safety was…

Quality and availability of health care services at an affordable cost will be the strongest need for the future. This will include the need for newer and updated facilities to account for the vast increase of patient’s needs. According to Anderson, “Greater access to health care is a central ACA goal, but heavier demand for services will likely create a bottleneck in access. Individuals on the exchanges will likely experience a narrowing of networks and limited providers” (para, 56). If the…