Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act

Implementation Advancements in technology have grown rapidly over the years, even integrating itself into the medical field. Gone are the days of paper charting and handwritten prescriptions allowing for a decrease in medical errors and an increase in patient safety. With the attacks on September 11, 2001, the nation acknowledged a need for standardized electronic health records. Many facilities have already implemented the use of electronic health records; however, efforts are being made to…

Joint Commission and Patient Safety For more than twenty-five years, The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organization (JCAHO), which is renamed as The Joint Commission (TJC), has published every year The Patient Safety Goals to be implemented by all healthcare institutions nationwide. In 2009, TJC established the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Health Care. As the quality-improvement arm of TJC, the center embarked in addressing patient safety problems in…

Health (HITECH) Act of 2009, mandated that healthcare providers complete the three stages of “meaningful use” incentive criteria; showing compliance which is validated by quality data. A summary of the stages: 1) implement electronic health records (EHRs); clinical data electronically available and giving patients electronic versions of their health information; 2) utilize health information technology (HIT) to enhance quality patient care; 3) interoperability and sharing of quality data (U.S.…

especially for nursing, I will not succeed by helping my patients or the doctors. Patients need to get the care they need, and without having the nurses speak up and try to be an advocate for the patient, then that patient will not get the care they really need. As a nurse, I need to be involved in the decision-making for the patient and ensure the best outcome for the patient. I want to be a leader to the patients, staff, and doctors.…

There are five steps of preparing for the FMEA. The first step encompasses the definition of the topic or scenario in discussion or in question. The topic is the process that elaborates on the vulnerabilities and potential for impact on the safety of the patient. It should not only the boundaries but also the limits of the scope of the scenario or topic (Esmail, 2005). The second step involves assembling the teams which should consist of approximately 6 to 8 members from various disciplinary in…

benefit the organization in that the facility develops a good reputation and this will bring in more patients since they trust the facility. Risk and Quality managers who participate in reporting which is not mandatory provide the facility financial benefits. The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act (MMA) passed in 2003, placed in effect the Reporting Hospital Quality Data for Annual Payment Update program which allows hospitals that are able to report certain…

goals of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) has propelled all primary care practices into new and uncharted territory. To meet the primary goals of the ACA, primary care physicians would play a pivotal role in improving the health of Americans and lowering the costs of the health care they receive. The legislation plans to accomplish this by moving from fee-for-service to value-based reimbursement. The value of the value-based reimbursement is based on improving the quality of…

medication for pain relief. There was growing cultural influence for the medical profession. Physicians’ incomes were higher and had become prestigious. By the 1930’s the Depression era pushed for unemployment and “old age” benefits. Social Security Act was passed but did not include medical benefits. Blue Cross Blue Shield began offering private coverage in several states. In the 1960’s, President Lyndon Johnson signed Medicare and Medicaid into law. Prior to that is was found that 56%…

The medical establishment continues to attempt to reduce the nearly100,000 patient lives lost unnecessarily, annually since the IOM surveillance began reporting this as a problem in 1999 (IOM, 2010). Nursing is attempting to help solve this problem of untimely deaths. In order to do this, Dr. Watson encourages us to make more explicit the reality that if nursing is to survive in this millennium, it has to sustain and make explicit its covenant with the public. This covenant includes taking…

“search disciplinary record” you find the “Medical quality assurance search services” where you can verify both establishments and practitioners’ license, profile, discipline and administrative…