Patient Safety/Quality Care/Improvement Case Study 1. Overview of what are medical errors and possible consequences of such errors? The Institute of Medicine (IOM) defines medical errors as “the failure of a planned action to be completed as intended or the use of a wrong plan to achieve an aim.” Medical errors do not all result in harm or injury. Medical errors that cause injury or harm are sometimes called preventable adverse events – that is the injury is thought to be due to a medical intervention
Quality Improvement and Patient Safety In the United States alone there are 98,000 deaths per year caused by low quality health care (Ignatavicius & Workman, 2013, pg. 2). This statistic is disturbing because the errors that resulted in death were errors that were preventable. The intent of this chapter is to bring awareness to health care providers that are able to make a change in the quality of health care. In current practice patients are subjected to medication errors, preventable hospitalizations
Quality improvement, patient safety, and cost containment are some of the key focuses of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) in 2010. Therefore, many Healthcare Organizations (HCOs) were confronted with the challenge of changing their organization behavior, so that they can deliver a safe care without compromising on qualities and increasing on expenditures with each care delivery (KPMG Healthcare & Pharmaceutical Institute, 2011). The purpose of the paper is to discuss a HCO’s
In a healthcare practice, patient Safety and quality of care are emphasized to bring positive results. It focuses upon a care that is person centred, driven by information and organised for wellbeing. It has a great importance for the health care organization to avoid any adverse risks in relation to patient safety issues and to improve health care processes. In this essay, a detailed view of process and outcome data is argued to provide safe and quality care followed by an incidence of pressure
Quality improvement is a critical aspect to enhancing patient care. Healthcare, more specifically patient care, should be safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable (DeNisco & Barker, 2016). The organization that this nurse is employed currently utilizes three different charting systems. The organization currently utilizes two electronic information systems and a paper chart. The current charting system within this organization is inefficient to all healthcare providers for
Patient safety and quality care has not always been the main objective of our U.S. health care system. Traditionally, the idea of “quality health care” was left up to the interruption of the acting physician. Due to the specialization of medical practice knowledge about care was not widely attainable or known by the average citizen (Shi & Singh, pg. 55). In this time medical education was not backed by science and medical errors were a regular occurrence in U.S. health care (Shi et al., 2013). You
improve the quality and safety of patient care and to prevent patient falls in the hospitals. It will include three evidence-based research reports related to fall preventions and patient safety, examine a national initiative to support my topic of falls in the hospital, and discuss Orlando’s Nursing home testing Process Theory. The Joint Commission, TJC (2013) requires accredited hospitals to conduct fall risk assessments for hospitalized patients in order to identify fall risks in each patient, so prevention
Throughout any health-care facility, the incorporation and knowledge of patient safety is crucial to ensure quality care to patients. Patient safety is a discipline in the health care profession that emphasizes the reporting, analysis, and prevention of medical error and to minimize the incidence and impact of adverse healthcare events (Henriksen K, Battles JB, Keyes MA, year). Patient safety is incorporated within many issues throughout the healthcare field. One of these issues is health-care acquired infections
PART 1 Quality of care, and patient safety matters. Quality of care does not happen overnight; it is a system that an organization creates to measure, assess, and improve performance. This quality management system is a set of interrelated or interacting elements that organizations use to direct and control the implementation of quality policies and achieve quality objectives (Spath, 2013). For more than 60 years, The Joint Commission has been a champion of patient safety by helping health care
aging population, health care improvement remains at the center of providing proper patient care. However, it is imperative to ensure improvement is quality improvement, thus advancing patient care while still protecting patient safety. Quality and Safety Education in Nursing provides goals and guidelines for providing the best care. Prioritizing patient-centered care, quality improvement, and teamwork provides methods to increase patient safety, while excellent patient care can be maximized when striving