Question

Clinical variation in healthcare contributes to the third leading cause of death in the United States. For this discussion post, view the video and address these questions:

1. How can nurses contribute to decreasing variation in their professional practice? Give some examples of how you have seen this accomplished in your healthcare experiences.
2. Give one example of how you think a standard approach to an aspect of patient care might decrease variation and improve quality.
3. Describe the barriers that exist for professional nurses to promote standardization of care practices to decrease variability?

Answer 1

Answer: The nurses involves in major tasks and plays specific role in healthcare setting. To decrease variation in the nursing practice, nurses should enhance their practicing skills. The leadership qualities can provide platform to the nurses to perform better actions.

For example, while providing care to the culturally diverse patient, nurse should provide cultural competence environment to the patient. This will enable patient to discuss their problem as well as it will help nurse to teach patient about the treatment.

The standard approach can decrease variation and improve quality as the standard approach is a kind of set of treatment plan. This can be indulge while providing care to the patients. It will eliminate the risk as well as problems. For example, if the standard approach will be involved while administration of drug to the patients, then there would be low risk of medical errors.

Some of the barriers that exist for professional nurses to promote standardization of care practices to decrease variability such as:

• Different organizational rules
• Ethical dilemmas
• Inability of patient to understand.
• Lack of proper knowledge