in 1999 outlined that despite rising healthcare costs, quality and patient outcomes were not improving. To Err is Human hypothesized that faulty processes and not people were to blame and set a goal that in the five years following the report, a reduction of 50% of healthcare errors would occur. In 2001, IOM published their report, Crossing the Chasm. In the years since their first published report, there was no noticeable improvement in the quality of healthcare. In the Crossing the Chasm report
HEALTHY START This essay will discuss healthy start as a current healthcare initiative in the United Kingdom. It will also look at the historical overview of healthy start its aim and how the initiative is structured, problems associated with in adequate nutrition with relation to socioeconomic status and the effectiveness of health promotion/health education will be reviewed with its implication to health care delivery, finally this write up will discuss about different nursing theories and models
An APIC Guide 2008 Guide to the Elimination of Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTIs) Developing and Applying Facility-Based Prevention Interventions in Acute and Long-Term Care Settings About APIC APIC’s mission is to improve health and patient safety by reducing risks of infection and other adverse outcomes. The Association’s more than 12,000 members have primary responsibility for infection prevention, control and hospital epidemiology in healthcare settings around the globe