“Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century”. Washington, DC: National Academies Press. Available at: http://www.ahrq.gov/news/qualfact.htm, Accessed on February 10, 2013. Lanham, B., & Maxson-Cooper, P. (2003). “Is six sigma the answer for nursing to reduce medical errors and enhance patient safety?” Nursing Economics vol.
The Four-Step Continuum and Informatics Sean Leonard Walden University Nursing 6051 Transforming Nursing and Healthcare August 25, 2015 Wisdom with Informatics Nursing informatics plays an important role in managing healthcare for patients with degenerative disorders of the central nervous system. Managing complex medical issues for patients with Parkinson’s disease involves applying previous knowledge or wisdom in treatment (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2012). Continuum of care approach uses previous wisdom gained in outcomes to deliver patient care through a defined period of time. Better coordination of patient care helps to produce best possible outcomes. According to Laureate Education (2010) nursing informatics is a major player in continuum of care and it consists of data, information, knowledge, and wisdom.
The Joint Commission (TJC) surveyed Nightingale Community Hospital two years ago. The Joint Commission is a non-profit organization that accredits and certifies healthcare organizations. The mission of The Joint commission is “To continuously improve health care for the public, in collaboration with other stakeholders, by evaluating health care organizations and inspiring them to excel in providing safe and effective care of the highest quality and value”(The Joint Commission, 2012). The previous Joint Commission survey results found opportunity with six standards at Nightingale Community hospital. The area of greatest opportunity, with four findings, was within the Provision of Care, Treatment and Services: · PC.01.01.07 Pain is assessed in all patients(The Joint Commission, 2012).
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.
In 2008 an official partnership was formed between Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and Institute of Medicine (IOM) to accomplish this goal. One of the main objectives of the partnership was to find out innovative proposals and ideas regarding how the nursing field can be converted and transformed more
Family assessment and nursing diagnosis NUR/405 August 14, 2014 Family assessment and nursing diagnosis. The purpose of this family nursing assessment is to identify any actual or potential social and medical issues, their implications with the family’s community, and the relations with the Healthy People 2020 Leading Health Indicators (LHI). This information is utilized to develop family nursing diagnosis and recommend the most appropriate nursing interventions to improve the family and community health. The health of communities is directly related to the health of families (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2012). Identifying data The family selected for the assessment project consists of AM a 34 years old wife, CR 33 years old husband, IR 13 years old son, MR 10 years old son, and AR 9 years old daughter.
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The Impact of The IOM Report on Nursing Mariama Jalloh Grand Canyon University Professional Dynamics NRS-430V-0500 Teresa Gaither June 21, 2015 The Impact of The IOM Report on Nursing The Institute of Medicine (IOM) is an independent, nonprofit organization, which was established in 1970. Their aim is to provide advice to all level of healthcare sectors to ensure that effective healthcare policies are being implemented. In the late 2010, IOM released a special report “The Future of Nursing: Leading change, Advancing health”. The report contains three messages related to nursing, which focus on the following sections: transforming practice, transforming education and transforming leadership. This paper focuses on the IOM report and how it impacts nursing education.
The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health http://www.nap.edu/catalog/12956.html This paper is excerpted from Appendix I of The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health (Institute of Medicine, 2011). I The Future of Nursing Education1 Edited by Linda R. Cronenwett, Ph.D, R.N., FAAN University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Nursing SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS “Learn the past, watch the present, and create the future.” In October 2009, Don Berwick and I were out of the country when we received invitations from Susan Hassmiller to co-author a background paper on the future of nursing education for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Institute of Medicine (RWJF/IOM) Committee on the Future of Nursing. Initial conversations led to long lists of potential topics to be covered. Inevitably, we kept coming back to the question: What would be useful to committee members who deserved a base for their deliberations that was focused and helpful? In the end, we decided that detailed descriptions of the current challenges and recommendations for the future of nursing education from two people were not the answer.
The Impact of the 2010 Iom Report on the Future of Nursing.4 The Impact of the 2010 IOM report on the future of Nursing.4 IN 2010.after the congress agreement, The president signed into law a detailed health care law called affordable care Act, With this law it gave USA a chance to change its health care system to adequately ensure a higher quality of care, safer care, and also for it to be more affordable to everybody in USA and to all life span. During that time, Robert Wood Johnson foundation, looked at the future of nursing and put together a proposal for change in nursing professional. Nurses are directly involved in the delivery of sick peoples care but are confronted with some difficulties which stops us from meeting the request of converging health care system, IN other to confront these problems, , Robert Wood