Quality Patient Care

As health care providers, professionalism, respect and empathy should play an essential role in our daily routine. These core values allow us as health care providers to demonstrate understanding, compassion, and appreciation for our patients and their experiences. Utilizing these virtues will allow for an experience that will make the patient feel respected, valued and wanting to return.

For example, the Hippocratic oat, the prayer of Moses Maimonides, the bible, the Holy Koran, and the Islamic legacy, as well as cultures, traditions, and social morality have shaped and guided the development of ethical standards in the medical profession. The majority of these historical documents focus on “avoiding harm to patients” Ethics refers to a professional moral conduct. Ethics, particularly professional ethics, describes the moral actions based on professional character and ethical principles in each profession. The statements of medical ethics require the health care providers to do what is best for the patient and place the patients’ interests before the interests of the physician. Above all, the purpose of medical ethics is to protect and defend human dignity and patients’

The main objective of healthcare professionals is to provide the best quality of patient care and the highest level of patient safety. To achieve that objective, there are many organizations that help improve the quality of care. One of the best examples is the Joint Commission. Unfortunately, the healthcare system is not free from total risks. In healthcare activities, there are possible errors, mistakes, near miss and adverse events. All of those negative events are preventable. But, it is clear that errors caused in healthcare result in thousands of deaths in the United States.

America’s health care system has become very complex with a rise in health costs, patients with complex medical issues, and Medicare cuts. Nurses must find a way to juggle the health care industry while maintaining positive patient outcomes. Patients will either have good or bad outcomes during or after their care based on the decisions of the nurse and the interdisciplinary team. The new goal in healthcare is for outcomes to be patient centered. This means that the patient is looked at holistically and also that the patient is equally involved in the care planning process as the nursing and medical staff. This

Healthcare is a complex industry that is consistently changing to meet the demand of improving quality patient care. As a member of the healthcare team, we are obligated to provide safe patient-centered care. However, patient care within the facility this nurse is employed is not as effective as it should be. The organization currently utilizes three different charting systems, two electronic health information systems and a paper chart. Each with its own purpose of use. To make matters worse, not all healthcare providers have access to both electronic health information system. Depending on the individuals professional role within the organization, access would be limited to one or the other. Nurses are the only one

As someone who is interested in pursuing a career in the medical field, it becomes apparent that medicine and ethics have a unique and pertinent relationship. Everyday doctors, nurses, and other health care workers have to make ethical decisions or help families make ethical decisions for their patients. For example, in the video that featured bioethicist Toby Schonfeld, she discussed some of the ethical dilemmas faced in hospitals today. The most notable ethical conflicts she noted were physician assisted suicide, and other dilemmas such as transferring a patient to palliative care, or whether someone should get a pacemaker or not. Perhaps, in my future I will face similar ethical problems and will have to figure out a way to draw a conclusion that is the best for both the patient and their family.

The increasing numbers of vulnerable adults in the United Kingdom has been accompanied several care challenges and policy makers caught their attention to do their part and come up with legislations to combat or overcome these challenges. Giving support and providing care for an individual in their last stage or end of life is a difficult thing to do. End of life care aims to put the person at the centre of the caring process, they should be involved in every decision to make when it comes to their personal care, maintain and enhance quality of life for the person involve and family if possible and provide bereavement support for families and carers after someone passed away. In lieu to this, this will not be possible if not being back up by legislation to oversee that quality care is delivered at the highest possible.

Ethics are rules of conduct and moral principles of an individual which have various origins such as family, culture, and social environment. Given the diversity of people in the healthcare profession and the importance of providing care that is ethically sound

Improving patient care is a process that always has room for improvements. It is important to make sure patients receive the best quality care available. "Studies suggest that high quality patient care relies on careful documentation of each patient 's medical history, health status, current medical conditions, and treatment plans" (Glandon, Smaltz, & Slovensky pg.3). To help with the process of quality care for patients HIPAA laws have been set in place. "The Administrative Simplification provisions of the Health

Quality: the standard of something as measured against other things of a similar kind; the degree of excellence of something

.My own personal code of ethics consists of important key factors to my patients satisfaction. The two below, to me, are very important factors. It is important to me to make sure that my patients are always in a safe and clean environment. It is important to be aware or hazards so you are not accused of neglect. It is also a must to treat all patients the way I would like to be treated in return. Their happiness is what keeps them a patient at the medical practice that I work at.

In health care, a foundation in ethics is very important because people such as, patients, families, and healthcare professionals face difficult decisions, in particular medical treatments, which involve moral principles, religious beliefs, and professional standards (Purtilo & Doherty, 2015). Doctors aren’t the only ones in the healthcare field upholding ethical standards like the Hippocratic oath; health care administrators also “play an important role in facilitating decisions about patient care, particularly when the situation is one that might contain moral and ethical dilemmas” (Saint Joseph’s University, 2016, para. 10). Recent issues have made having a foundation in ethics is very important such as genetic testing prior to birth or end-of-life care. Practicing and making ethical decisions is a double edge sword; not everyone is going to agree with the decisions made. I believe that someone can still be a good person when making ethical decisions, but they shouldn’t let it play a big factor when deciding what’s best for the patient. At the end of the day when making tough medical decisions, we have to ask ourselves what’s best for the patient because that’s really who the decision is affecting.

I think healthcare is a combination of both right and a privilege. I think that not everyone has good quality care, and sadly this is usually because to receive quality care you need to be able to afford it as well as be able to access quality care. I think that quality of care for the public is all ways evolving and getting better. The healthfield is always making advancements which results in better quality of healthcare. I do not think it is becoming more affordable health care, the cost of living and treatment is always going up as the pay decreases. The US is working on making health cre affordable, but still have a long ways to go. I lso think making healthcare accessible for more people through open clinics and how our world is expanding

I agree with you. In order to improve quality care, it is important to evaluate outcomes, structure and process. The six aims from the IOM should be considered when planning quality care and that is done in process and structure. There are times when outcome are positive but the process or structure might be poor.

Throughout my experiences in healthcare, I have come to develop a patient-centered philosophy regarding the future of healthcare and the doctor I would like to become. I have seen first hand the benefits of treating a patient as a whole, and focusing on a patient’s well being through showing compassion and understanding, in order to improve a patient’s quality of care and outcome, which I believe is crucial in the future of healthcare.