Question

Chapter 22 Quality Patient Care Complete the following Critical Thinking Exercises 1. Identify three quality improvement activities that are being used in the facility where you have clinical or where you work(LPNS) 2. Develop a plan for quality improvement using the IOM report recommendations. 3. How does the QSEN initiative improve quality and safety in health care? 4. Identify provisions in the Affordable Care Act that improve the quality of care. 5. How do patient satisfaction survey findings affect quality of care?

Answer 1

Q. No. 1. Answer :

Quality improvement activities where Licensed practice nurses are working :

* maintainance of proper records and reports,

* avoidance of doing malpractices,

* providing timely care and technological care according to the client problems,

* by process, monitoring and evaluation process they can provide quality of care by evaluating exact care what they have provided.

Q. No. 3 answer :

QSEN quality and safety education for nurses, QSEN initiatives are knowledge, skills and attitudes of nurses, those are improves the nurse futuristic knowledge to wards clients problems and new technological skills in order to provide quality of care and safe care to the clients.

Q. No. 4. Answer :

Provisions in the affordable care act that improve quality of care :

* it can cover the treatment for preexisting health conditions,

* it can provide the care for poor income people at affordable cost.

* an insurer could not change higher risk patients and higher premiums.

* so that patients may get quality of care through medicaid.

Q. No. 5. Answer :

Patient satisfaction survey findings are showing high satisfaction among the clients means the quality of care is good, because when the quality of care received by clients they can get cured from diseases and they will satisfy more.

So patient satisfaction survey findings are good means the quality of care also good.