Exercise 11 and 16 Statistics for Healthcare Professionals

The Joint Commission accredited Holy Cross hospital and Shady Grove’s, and the scores given based on quality improvement goals/measures in these areas:

The Joint Commission evaluates and accredits more than 20,000 health care organizations and programs in the United States. The Joint Commission also provides certification of more than 1,000 disease-specific care programs, primary stroke centers, and health care staffing services. An independent, not-for-profit organization, The Joint Commission is the nation's oldest and largest standards-setting and accrediting body in health care. The Mission of the Joint Commission is to continuously improve health care for the public, in collaboration

The Joint Commission is an accrediting agency that evaluates the services provided by health institutions and recognize that after their assessments meet all requirements. This visit is requested by the institution and after being accredited are visited every three years. “The Joint Commission is working to align and improve how accreditation and certification work together to enhance their value to organizations” (Horn, 2012, p.243). It is a prestige by being accredited by the Joint Commission. The hospital institution is evaluated in all aspects evaluated from the triage is performed in the ER, permits, documentation, security, administration of drugs, surgical procedures, to infection control and other aspects that are related to the safety

Even though the Joint Commission is an independent institution, it has close ties to the industry is oversees. In order to remove the impartiality, Medicare has stressed a more collegial approach in which private groups such as the Joint Commission and some state regulators work together with the hospitals and other groups that they oversee [4]. Additionally, the Joint Commission has continued to refine its performance measurement and quality improvement programs. As a result, initiatives such as ORYX have been started. Hospitals collect data for measurement sets selected from the nationally standardized core measurement sets, which include AMI, heart failure, pneumonia, and pregnancy. The National Patient Safety Goal measures are designed to help avoid problems such as

Dana White alleges substandard medical care after undergoing a knee arthroscopy with partial medial meniscectomy and chondroplasty. While the surgery itself was without incident Ms. White later had what she felt were signs of a possible infection pink tinged drainage) a week after her surgery. Dr. Passanise failed to culture the drainage at her post-operative appointment and Ms. White eventually had to have two diagnostic arthroscopies with irrigation, and a debridement before being diagnosed with a Group B Streptococcus infection. Ms. White feels is Dr. Passanise would had cultured the wound area at her first post-operative appointment, most of the issues and expenses could have been

Defendant Dr. Turk was performing gall bladder surgery on a patient, he became frustrated because the surgery was not going as planned. The plaintiff Snyder, a nurse was helping Turk in the operating room, she made some mistakes which included handing the wrong size surgical instrument to Turk. The defendant became angry because Snyder was making the procedure more complicated. The defendant grabbed Snyder by the shoulder and moved her closer to the surgical opening on the patient. There were other medical students and colleagues in the operating room witnessing this. Snyder wanted to leave but there was no one to cover her, so she had to finish the surgery with the

The doctor yelled at security as the patient convulsed uncontrollably on the ED bed. I watched as the officers grabbed her arms and legs, and secured them to the bed with a belt. There were very prominent track marks running down her arm and obvious burn marks on her lips and fingers. The patient had been brought in for a reported methamphetamine overdose, but what should have been a straightforward central line insertion crawled on for more than 15 minutes. I witnessed the doctor take quick action, giving the patient haloperidol and a benzodiazepine. It was incredible to see the amount of training, knowledge, and skill the doctor possessed, ultimately saving this patient’s life. Though this patient survived, this type of situation

However, on December 3, 2013 the Joint Commission Resources publicized the release of the “The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety (Joint Commission Resources, 2016; The Joint Commission, 2015),” which featured an article on how the Johns Hopkins Hospital notably improved performance on Joint Commission accountability measures. The hospital was recognized by the Top Performer on Key Quality Measures® program (Keroack et al., 2007) for using evidence-based care processes that are delivered in the right way and at the right time (Joint Commission Resources, 2013).

Accreditation. It is important that a facility is evaluated to ensure that the professionals are providing services comfortably and safely to enrich a client’s life and achieve desired outcomes. Thus the accreditation agencies, like the Joint Commision on Accreditation of Healthcare organizations focus on providing tools to improve service delivery to clients through self-inspection and surveys done at the facility. The Joint Commission Accreditation serves to measure performance, testing the performance and the performance quality (Stumbo & Peterson,

In November 2015 , during the first block of clinical placement , a critical incident occurred in the theatre during a knee ORIF surgical procedure . The procedure involves re-alignment of broken bones which are held together by surgical implants such as metal plate , rod , and screws . The team involved in the procedure were an orthopaedic surgeon , a consultant , an anaesthetist , a theatre nurse , a scrub nurse , a radiographer , and a student radiographer . During the procedure , the patient was under general anaesthesia where an incision was made at the site of the injury to repair the fracture . Protocols were adhered to , and a 'WHO ' check was carried out . The role of the radiographer was to operate the C-arm fluoroscopy in carrying out series of x-rays as requested by the orthopaedic surgeon . The student radiographer 's role was to observe and assist the radiographer when required . During the procedure the student was asked by the radiographer to operate the C-arm fluoroscopy . Whilst screening , the orthopaedic surgeon requested a lateral view of the knee , and as the student radiographer was positioning the C-arm fluoroscopy for the lateral view , the orthopaedic surgeon became very impatient and told the student radiographer in the harsh tone " if you can 't turn the nob to rotate the C-arm you shouldn 't be in the university " . The student radiographer felt embarrassed , upset and flustered and could not proceed . So he asked the radiographer to take over

The teenager was medicated with Demerol an hour after he came to ER. The pain was not controlled in the emergency room so the next morning he was transferred to the pediatric hematology unit. He received IV fluids and IM Demerol 75 mg orally every 3 hours. The admitting nurse recognized the teenager. Apparently, the teenager has been coming to the unit as a patient frequently. The primary nurse assigned the teenager to a nursing student to give pain medication. The nursing student saw the teenager in his room watching television and laughing. The teenager told the nursing student that his pain level

The United States government, specifically the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), have developed many systems and guidelines to assess quality measures in healthcare. These guidelines set forth by the CMS can be identified as core measures. The CMS is the governing body in charge of Medicare and Medicaid; therefore, they are also the governing body that is responsible

This memo is sent in context of a lawsuit received from the lawyer of Patient ‘Y’ regarding retention of a surgical pack in the patient, due to which the patient has suffered. The lawyer has threatened to sue the hospital if the patient’s claim is proven.

“As a staff nurse, I was once part of a team that deceived an overeager first-year surgical resident in order to protect a burn patient. The patient was scheduled for transfer that day to a hospital with a burn unit, and the transfer protocol was very specific in

On Thursday 10/06/2015 at approximately 0201 hours, I, Steven Evans Security Shift Supervisor at FHEO was contacted by E.D. Nurse Kristal Boston at the EMS off load area in reference to a (27C) Found Contraband in Patient room. I spoke with Nurse Boston and she stated that patient, Franco Garcia (FIN #86274611) was brought in unresponsive by Orange County EMS. When she inventoried patient belongings, she found a medicine vial containing what appears to be contraband. Nurse Boston handed to me the medicine vial, I examined the container and found 2 small bags with a white powder inside. I made contact with E.D. Charge Nurse Robbie Philips and around 0204 hours I contacted Orange County Sheriff’s Office so that the drugs could be picked up for