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Nurses work directly with patients and therefore are directly involved in almost all aspects of hospital quality. Nurses do patient care, medication administration and management and they assist with surgeries. All these task require the nurse to data collect and report which are required for quality control and improvement. “The demand for quality improvement in hospitals is ever increasing due to federal government mandates” (TRNQI, 2017). Reported feedback from nurses is crucial and include falls as well as falls with injury and the prevalence of pressure ulcer. Withe the data collection done when nurses care for their patients, organizations are able to improve activities within the organization.
Answer: Nurses plays major roles in the healthcare organization along with the patient's life. The palliative care provided by the nurses indulge many theories and evidence to provide quality of care to the patients. Due to lack of availability of the healthcare professionals, there are increased in the working hours which causes burnout among them and hence reduces the efficacy of the care provided to the patients.
How can be demand of the quality improvement in care can be fulfilled with the unavailability of the staffs?.
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please reply to this post and ask one question regarding this post: Nurses are faced with a number of ethical dilemmas every day. There will be many cases in which a nurse will have to refer to nursing code of ethic to deal with these challenging decisions. "The Code of Ethics is the social contract that nurses have which exemplifies our profession's promise to provide and advocate for safe, quality care for all patients” (ANA, 2001). As nurses we must...
please reply to this post and ask one question regarding this post: Quality improvement is the uses of all of the interdisciplinary teams involved in patient care to come together to ensure that the best care is provided to the patient (Moran & Johnson, 1992). The nurses are an essential role to the quality improvement team as they are the ones in direct contact with the patients and are able to bring issues to all members of the team to...
please reply to this post and ask one question regarding this post: “According to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, To Err Is Human,4 the majority of medical errors result from faulty systems and processes, not individuals”(Hughes, 2008).Because errors are caused by some fault in the system it is important to implement several methods to identify inadequacies in the care patients receive as well as ways to prevent future errors from occurring. Many hospitals develop and implement important protocols to...
please reply to this post and ask one question regarding this post: I believe nurses as lobbyists are essential to the growth of nursing as a profession. Nurses who lobby and push for political change in healthcare do it to advocate for their patients, change in practice issues, and to advocate for the nursing profession. Nursing is the number one trusted profession; they perform direct patient care and can offer a point of view that others in politics cannot. In...
please reply back to this post & ask one question regarding this post: HCAHPS (Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems) can be described as a national survey that asks patients about their experiences during a recent hospital stays (Medicare.gov, n.d.). Hospitals differ in the quality of care and services they provide to patients. HCAHPS star ratings allow consumers the access to quickly and easily assess the patient experience of care information that is provided on the Hospital Compare...
please reply back to this post and ask one question about this post: One of the greatest challenges that nurses is motivating patients to enhance their health behaviors. There are some key elements that can help to motivate the patients. Nurses can improve patient motivation by strategies that comprise learning what is essential to them. The first element is to know what is important to the patient and motivate them that they need to focusing on what is important to...
please reply to this post & ask one question regarding this post: I believe that membership and participation in a local/national professional nursing organization have huge benefits in lifelong learning. “Professional nursing organizations are an effective means by which the nursing profession can influence healthcare policy, represent and protect the interests of nurses, provide continuing education opportunities for nurses, and advocate for the highest quality care possible to the public” (Halstead, 2016, p.108). Nursing organizations further the development of nursing...
please reply back to this post & ask one question regarding this post: Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems or HCAHPS is a national standardized survey that reports how patient’s rate and perceive hospital care. This system is important because it evaluates the hospital’s performance and allows more improvement for areas that the patient’s perceive them lacking. Ways that I believe I can improve or potentially contribute is ensuring patient safety and comfort at all times. It is...
please reply to this post and ask one question regarding to this post Mandatory staffing ratios for nurses in California was implemented in 2004 in effort to improve the quality of care as well as nurse job satisfaction. When nurses have less patients in their care for they give higher quality of care. A study done in California, New Jersey and Pennsylvania based on 22,336 hospital staff nurses and state discharge databases that showed that in California, where there is...
please reply back to this post & ask one question regarding this post: Being a student in all of the hospitals made me realize how important it is to communicate with patients about each step of their care. Many times I have witnessed healthcare providers talking to one another about the care, however, the main patient never gets the whole picture. They have gaps in information, and are struggling to understand what is wrong with them at the moment. Providing...