Question

•How can you use data for decision making and change processes to promote and improve patient quality and safety outcomes? •Describe why nurse leaders must identify supporters and opponents of any change process. •Discuss challenges the transformational nurse leader faces with any kind of planned change. •Identify two strategies by which the nurse leader successfully monitors structure, processes, and outcomes of the planned change. •Describe the role of the nurse leader in damage control when things in the planned change process do not go according to plan. •Describe a change in your healthcare organization that occurred within the past six months. What was the nursing leadership’s role in this change and would you consider the nurse leader’s actions effective during the change process? Provide reasons for your answer. •As a nurse leader, describe two specific strategies you would use to make certain that staff and healthcare providers have adequate resources to support change in a healthcare system that has finite human and financial resources.

Answer 1

In decision making process data support and promote efficiency and productivity..The aim of efficiency and quality targets by process changing, goals to determine the process of health care, scientific evidence by a health care professional avoid errors errors in organization which can promote better health outcomes..some of data determine risk adjustment needs and also measures quality and safety, collaboration discipline and organizational performance..

Competitive and external benchmarking involve in comparative data about organization performance and improvement that shows success..process measures using guidelines can be influenced by environmental and behavioral factors including death, satisfaction, improvement of patient health etc..

Health care leaders involvement in managing, teamwork, process changing,system thinking to make improvements.. strategy that improve the clinical practice as a multi- dimensional outcomes methodology have link with management..when planned changes process do not go as per plan it reduces the quality improvement, affect patient outcomes, increases the risk..

Quality improvement tool can be assessed by Agency for healthcare reward and Quality, Quality forum etc..process capacity improved by performance and process..There are two primary methods like process outcomes sigma metric it inspect applicable outcome and counts defects for pre and post analysis process and other method process variation to predict performance by calculating stigma metrics..This approach data used to collect and assess how well changes in process improved accuracydone by experimental process..Health care leaders should follow improvement strategy communicate and empower the staffs to implement the changes successful..