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Assignment Instructions Imagine that you are a hospital administrator at the Sunlight Hospital in California. The main complaint among the patients is the quality of care. Your job is to understand the state of the hospital, create value, increase efficiency, and turn the facility into a local hospital of choice. Whenever you are making visits […]
Federal Policy that would potentially affect the actions of a nurse leader (ICU RN) Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 was signed to law by the Senate, the House of Representatives in Congress and the President of the United States of America in July
Assignment 3: Healthcare Quality Assume that you are a Quality Officer who is responsible for one of the state’s largest healthcare organizations. You have been told that the quality of patient care has decreased, and you have been assigned a project that is geared toward increasing quality of care for the patients. Your Chief Executive
There is quantitative evidence that links patient satisfaction scores to effective use of hourly rounding. Hourly rounding is a health communication best practice that is instrumental in raising perception of the patient as pertains to care, and improves the patient experience. Hourly rounding with a purpose meant to check the patient for pain, potty, position,
Assignment Instructions As the head health care administrator at USA Community Hospital, you are required to review compliance reports on issues relating to the ethical conduct of the professional staff at your hospital, patient review registries, and standard procedures surrounding the ethical treatment of patients with HIV / AIDS. Intermittently, complaints surface from patients with
Introduction This paper is mainly aimed at offering a foundation, as well as an introduction to the various concepts that can be applied in order to enhance the quality within the healthcare centers and to provide various ways through which the quality within the healthcare centers can be enhanced. A number of measures have been
All patients are unique. Therefore, they experience various issues differently. Patients’ lived experiences refer to how a certain situation looks like from the patients’ perspective. It is vital for nurses to consider patients’ lived experiences to improve the quality of care they offer the patients. According to Rosemarie Rizzo Parse’s human becoming school of thought,
The quality of care delivered in every healthcare organization is determined by a number of factors including leadership, availability of resources, availability of qualified staff, how services are organized, and how monitoring is conducted (Baker et al., 2010). St. Mary’s Health Care System in Athens, Georgia is community hospital that strives to meet all the
Patient Scenario Information (copied from syllabus). Mr. Smith is 60 years old. He was diagnosed with a prostate cancer five years ago. Over the past few days, Mr. Smith has been feeling weak and increasingly tired and has also been suffering from a headache that did not respond to over-the-counter medications. He scheduled an appointment
There are several risk factors that might have led to the primary problem experienced by the patient. One of the risk factors from the history given is the induction using oxytocin. Oxytocin being a drug used for induction leads to hyper contractility of the uterus. This makes the uterus to contract too much and affects