Question

In the book, Professionalism in Health Care: A Primer for Career Success, the author, Sherry Makely, outlines quality improvement goals: eliminating adverse effects, reducing waste and unnecessary expense, avoiding costly hospital readmissions, and preventing undesirable outcomes that place patients at risk. Provide an example of a quality improvement initiative that can be proposed in a health care organization. Describe how the initiative would work to achieve the goals associated with quality improvement.

Answer 1

Answer: The quality improvement initiative that can be proposed in the healthcare organization as for any of the healthcare organization it is necessary for it to concentrate on the performance of the organization as well as it staff and healthcare professionals.

The quality of care can be provided to the patients by

• creating safe and friendly environment: It is necessary for the healthcare organization to provide safe and friendly environment so that patients can have trust on the healthcare organization.
• Providing cultural competence: Due to diversity in the population, it necessary for the organization to be more cultural competence.
• Eliminate the medical errors: Reducing the medical errors can increase in the efficacy and hence enhance the quality of care provided to the patients.
• Using advanced technology: Use of information technology in the healthcare organization can provide better opportunities for the healthcare professionals as well as patients.