Question

• Discuss the role of the nurse leader in fostering and promoting initiatives related to patient safety.
• Examine the relationship between patient safety and high-performing interprofessional healthcare teams.
• Discuss how the use of communication strategies like SBAR improves the high-performing interprofessional healthcare teams

Answer 1

a)Nurse leader is a professional at an executive level helping to provide a co operative effort between the staff nurses directed towards the realization of a consciously laid objective which is quality care of a patient .

• She first involves in specialization of labor ( assign works to a person for which they are best suited) so that the patient gets overall care
• She provides authority and seeks responsibility from the staffs under her, so that the patient is handled with utmost care and quality
• She follows unity of command which helps in giving quality care to the patient by involving all the individuals in the healthcare team
• She ensures and reinforce whether the staff nurses and other members of healthcare team follows the ward standards , policies , unit procedures and manuals .
• She enforce the discipline among the personnal under her supervision.
• She regularly monitor the each and every staff and provide them opportunities to step towards professional quality care.
• She arranges in-service education to keep her staffs updated with the values and necessities for maintaining quality care standards.
• She monitor whether the risk management standards are followed and all staffs report any error to risk management record which will be very helpful in resolving the safety issues in future.

b) Patient safety is a component of quality care . Patient safety helps in early recovery of patient. Following safety precautions like hand hygiene, international patient safety goals, proper documentation, falls prevention measures, measures to prevent pressure ulcer. Organized education emphasize health promotion , disease prevention and management of illness. Plan -do-check-act should be followed for improving patient safety. Performing evidence based practice is the main characteristic of high performing healthcare professional team working towards patient safety.High performing healthcare professionals follow structured way of improving process of care by following quality indicators .

c) Communication means transmitting, sharing of ideas, opinions, facts and information between groups or individuals .Communication techniques always helps in improving interpersonal relationship with patients and other members of team. An effective communication is indispensable for every organisations growing in complexity. Communication induces motivation, co operation, and co ordination which are very essential for patient safety .Any barriers can be solved via communication. Lack of communication may end up in medical errors posing threat to patient safety. SBAR is a communication tool .

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B-BACKGROUND

A-ASSESSMENT

R-RECOMMENDATION.

These type of tools helps in following a well organised form of care provided to a patient.