This paper will address the foundational frameworks of QI, the various stakeholders’ definition of quality, the various roles of clinicians and patients in QI. This paper will also address why quality management is needed in health care industry, accrediting and regulatory organizations involved in QI. The Foundational Frameworks of QI The foundational framework of QI is a continuous process that focuses on multiple relationships such as implementing improvements and improvements in processes. Some areas that organizations may concentrate their improvement efforts on are the reduction of medication errors, reduction of emergency room wait times or clinical measures such as breast cancer screenings or HIV testing. Walter Shewhart developed the Plan, Do, Study Act cycle used as the basis for planning and direction performance improvement efforts (Ransom, Joshi, Nash, & Ransom, 2008).
Nursing Documentation and Malpractice Law HCS/545 Health Law and Ethics May 31, 2010 Mary Nell Cummings Nursing Documentation and Malpractice Lawsuits Proper medical documentation can prevent liability issues and malpractice lawsuits. The focus on my paper will concentrate on nursing documentation and malpractice lawsuits. I presently work for a home health care agency. The entire staff throughout the company was recently informed of increased Medicare denials and possible lawsuits as results of inadequate documentations. A series of education training of documentation was implemented to help reduce episodes of Medicare payment denials and self-protection through adequate documentation.
While the Medical Assistant role continues to expand, career advancement remains limited. It also discusses the improvements that are needed in MA training, development of new skills, and the retention that is needed to effectively integrate Mas into a team model of care. AAMA Medical Assisting Salary Survey (2011) www.aama-ntl.org/resources/library/salsurvey. This was a survey administered in 2004 by mail to 10,000 Medical Assistants. This survey discusses the average salary and hourly pay for both CMAs and non-CMAs.
In the first paragraph of the discussion section, the researcher restates their purpose of the research but did not clearly restate the hypothesis. The results were discussed in terms of the literature cited in the introduction (Pryczak, 2008). The compared scores and studies from the previous research were mentioned in the introduction. The comparison was made in terms of forgiveness: “The average EFI score within adult nonclinical populations has been reported to be in the 250 range (Subkoviak et al., 1995), whereas the approximate average score in our sample was 175, even lower than found in Coyle and Enright's (1997) population,” (Lin, 2004). In addition, researchers should avoid citing new references in the Discussion (Pryczak, 2008).
Lastly, a reflection of findings will be discussed as to how nurses could contribute the information from the two interviews into their own professional growth and development. The first interview question pertained to the interviewee’s role in their current position and their educational preparation. The CRNA interviewed had an extensive emergency and critical care background, which applies greatly to his position today as he works in several areas, including the ICU, of the hospital where he is employed. The nurse educator was previously a nurse practitioner in a family practice office where she learned the patient teaching aspect that transitioned into her educational role today. Each interview participant explained the unique contributions they each made as nurses and brought to their interdisciplinary team.
Nursing is governed by many laws and breaching of these laws may result in legal implication. However, looking on the clinical narrative below whereby Brett and I on our routine shift at Wogan hospital, this paper will identifies the potential/actual ethical dilemmas on what had happened that day and then it will discuss the legal implications that Brett would face. The course of action in regard to this narrative will be described on the basis of four major ethical nursing principles, laws that governing nurses, and the ANMC code of conduct and code of ethics for nurses. “I am a registered nurse working in a 24 bed medical ward in Wogan Hospital. Brett Wilson also works there.
A Critical Appraisal of a Qualitative Study Grand Canyon University Introduction to Nursing Research NRS-433V September 17, 2014 A Critical Appraisal of a Qualitative Study Problem Statement The clinical problem and research problem that led to the study is identifying the effectiveness of rapid response teams (RRTs) functionality. It was noted, “most of the research on response teams has focused on tracking and reporting the hospital outcomes” (Leach & Mayo, 2013, p. 199). The researchers of this study believe that assessment of the actual functionality of the RRTs performance can lead to a better understanding of RRTs that can lead to fine tuning the education required to improve their performance when responding to a critical
Training and Development Welcome Knox HCS 341 March 17, 2014 Dr. Rita Fields Training and Development My paper will be about training and development in healthcare and why it is vital to have. I will also discuss the importance of measuring employee’s competencies and the process of tracking and evaluating training effectiveness. Training and development occurs in almost every company today. Both are very important to any business that wants to succeed. It is more vital to health care because we are dealing with people’s lives.
“Differences develop depending on the availability of after-school programs, social and medical services, and the quality of housing and neighborhoods” (Mossler, 2013) can also be used to compare to patient appointments. Exosystem has an influence with this experience of mine in the sense that availability of medical services in my workplace has to be available in order for the patient to be seen. In regards to working at Atlantic Chiropractic, the behaviors that are apparent in my adulthood would be communicating with different people daily, compassion, and knowledge. Each day that I go to work I find that I have to have a positive attitude to be able to make it through the day each day. Each day patients come into the office and I have to communicate with patients about anything from getting their insurance information, to collecting copays from the
I will describe the data collected at each of the four levels of measurement. This paper concludes with a discussion of the advantages of accurate interpretation of statistical information. Statistics In My Workplace Statistics are used for many reasons in the healthcare field to track areas that need improvement and demonstrate to others the areas that employees should focus on. For example my workplace statistics are used to measure the amount of nosocomial infections, hospital acquired pressure ulcers, patient falls, and patient satisfaction surveys. Both descriptive statistics and inferential statistics are used to measure and describe the collected data.