Question

Option 1:

• Explain one or more ways nurses can become involved in setting and auditing patient care standards or participating in other quality control/improvement activities within their organization.

Option 2:

• From your experience or discussions with others:
  • Describe one example of either: 1) a marginal employee, 2) an employee who is disruptive or breaks the rules, OR 3) a psychologically or chemically impaired employee.
  • Describe the behavior exhibited by the employee.
  • Discuss how the behavior impacted or could impact other employees or patient care.
  • Discuss a coaching or disciplinary action proc

Answer 1

Answer: Nurses can become involved in setting and auditing patient care standards or participating in other quality control within their organizations in many ways as nurses can monitor the condition of the patient as well as they can indulge themselves in evidence based practice. To improve the quality of care that is being provided to the patients can be enhanced by critical thinking skills.

A psychologically impaired employee is a person who have less mental state stability. This kind of employee creates problem for the organization in various ways as they do nuisance, create barriers in providing quality of care to the patients. They usually get angry with small or less workload. Shouting and screaming to staff as well as the patients. These behavior could impact other people working and patients as they will not be able to focus on their work and there will be kind of adverse environment. This kind of employee requires counseling as well as their actions should be strictly monitored.