Question

Key quality indicators and critical legal regulatory issues pertinent to hospitals

Answer 1

Ans) Quality indicators: These are used to generate ideas, set priorities, maintain direction, determine problem causes, and clarify processes.

Key quality indicators:

• Catheter associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI)
• Central line associated blood stream infeInfec (CLABSI)
• Ventilator Associated Pneumonia (VAP)
• Surgical Site Infection (SSI)
• Needle Stick Injury (NSI)
• Accidental exposure to blood/body fluid
• Hand hygiene compliance
• Hospital Acquired Pressure Ulcer (HAPU)
• Fall and fall related injury

Legal regulatory issues:

-nurse practice acts
-state board of nursing
-professional organizations
-federal and state laws regulating hospital and other health care institutes
-hospitals policies and procedures

Issues that challenge healthcare professional's ethics, values, and practices in hospital:

- Consumers ask more questions.

- Increasingly hospitals and ambulatory care centers are establishing ethics committees IRB's.

- Medical technology is advancing quicker than legal and ethical standards can address.

- Increasingly numbers of specialist make it difficult to coordinate client care.

- Costs of medical care has risen exponentially