Nightingale is accredited with Joint Commission accreditation. Along with this accreditation comes the responsibility to comply with the standards that Joint Commission has detailed in their requirements. Joint Commission’s role is to assist healthcare organizations to measure, assess, and improve their performance. These standards concentrate on the facility’s safety, quality service, and patient care. Joint Commission has laid out a strategic and detailed set of expectations that hospitals and other healthcare organizations can use to ensure they are in compliance with health laws.
For this reason there are terms of compliance that hospitals must adhere to. The Joint Commission Handbook serves as a means of regulation and compliance for hospitals and other such facilities. There are four categories that the Joint Commission focuses on during the accreditation audits for a hospital: Information Management which involves the efficient management of health information and accuracy, Medication Management involving labeling and sterility, Communication involving verification, and Infection Control to minimize spread and infection. We will be performing an accreditation audit to confirm that compliance standards are met for Nightingale Community Hospital. This accreditation audit will focus on Nightingale Hospital and the maintenance of communication within the hospital.
Communication and Opinion HCS/320 Communication and Opinion Today, my paper will be focusing on communication in the health care field or industry. Health care communication is needed no matter what your health care title is; whether it is surgeon, CEO of a hospital or health facility, physician, emergency room technician, medical assistant, or medical administrative assistant. Positive communication is needed to establish a well rounded relationship with coworkers, patients, families, and caregivers. Areas that will also be discussed will include how communication incorporate the basic elements of communication, basic elements of effective communication differ from the basic rules of health care communication, a provider encourage a
• Analyze the role of government and the private sector in providing health care. • Communicate to policymakers, health care providers, and consumers the role of the nursing profession in the provision of health care. • Demonstrate personal accountability in making cost-effective choices in the use of health care resources while providing quality care. Ethics and Professional Role Development Graduates of Grand Canyon University’s Master of Science in Nursing program will be able to analyze how values and ethics shape professional practice and influence decision making. Transition into the advanced professional nursing role includes the ability to deal with role ambiguity and to collaborate effectively, recognizing the similarities and uniqueness among the various stakeholders.
The Chief Operation Officer needs to collaborate with other departments (e.g., Chief Medical Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operations Officer, etc.) to direct compliance issues thru existing channels for investigation and resolution to make sure that the services provided are meeting the needs of the patients. Patton-Fuller Community Hospital goal is to make the patients experience as pleasant as possible, so improvements must constantly be made to keep up with the needs of the patients. If a patient’s needs are not being met because the hospital does not have the required equipment an action plan would have to be made to make sure the hospital is meeting their standards set by their mission statement. To purchase the required equipment an action plan would be set and different departments would have to collaborate to make it happen as quick and painless as possible.
Administrative Ethics HCS/335 February, 6, 2012 Administrative Ethics In today’s society it is essential that health care facilities maintain professionalism respecting the right of patient confidentiality. The privacy of patient personal information is to be between the patient and the physician. The medical staff has no reason to view patient personal history without billing purposes only. The patient must confide in the physician to disclose information about one’s health issues. The physician must know symptoms of the patient to find diagnosis.
Just as the scientific value judgments of organizations should be individualized for each patient by the doctor, social value judgments should be put within the perspective of individual value judgments (Moore 2010). Some ethical challenges may arise from the clinical implementation of these reflections, in relation to the principle of distributive justice. The practice of patient-centered care compatible with a fair and equal allocation of health care resources (Moore
According to American College of Medical Quality (2010), risk management involves identifying conditions that might put patients or a healthcare organization at the danger of undesirable outcome. In addition, the practice involves putting in place measures of avoiding, preventing, and controlling the risks. Quality management in healthcare organization is useful in managing, reducing, and alleviating risks. Risk management is an essential component of making sure that patients are safe, and that the care they get does not endanger their health or wellbeing. Process improvement is a quality management concept that involves the identification of weak areas in order to come up with ways to improve processes at the medical facility.
If you have a complaint about a care service, the first thing you should do is to tell the management of that service. By law, every provider of care services must have an efficient procedure for dealing with complaints. If you are not happy with the way the managers of a care service have dealt with your complaint there are a number things you can do. If your complaint relates to a service provided by the NHS, you can contact the Health and Parliamentary Ombudsman at www.ombudsman.org.uk. If your complaint is about a service provided by a care home or home care agency, you can contact the Local Government Ombudsman at www.lgo.org.uk.
In order for hospitals to maintain their accreditation through the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) all healthcare providers should maintain their licensure. This is a very important in the accountability falls on the supervisors and staff. All health care providers are responsible to maintain their license and it is supervisors duty to check. A successful organization understands checks and balances within a company. Hospitals that are successful understand the rules of delegation and implementing strategies within its system.