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3980NRS - Functioning Effectively in Health Organizations

   

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Running head: NURSING ASSIGNMENT Nursing assignmentName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor note

1NURSING ASSIGNMENT Introduction Healthcare is the second-largest growing industry sector for economy and nursing beingthe largest occupation within this healthcare industry. The improvements in healthcare improvethe safety and quality of patient care and delivery of care by the nurses. There is an ardentnecessity of quality and safety improvements that would permeate healthcare. Everyone whoworks in healthcare sector has the responsibility to create a safe and quality healthcare systemthat ensure patient safety and best practice in accordance with clinical standards (McFadden,Stock & Gowen III, 2015). To maintain a safe environment in healthcare reflects the vigilanceand compassion level for patient safety and is an important aspect in healthcare. Besides safeworkforce, it is also necessary that a stable environment prevent the adverse healthcare eventsthat hamper patient safety and their health outcomes. The following essay involves the safe andquality nursing care in healthcare organizations focusing on the five moments of hand hygiene,process data and outcome data in order to improve the quality and safety of healthcare andnursing focusing on auditing process to improve patient outcomes and reduction of hospitalinfections. Aim and core business of healthcare systemThe aims of healthcare system are to deliver safe, effective and quality healthinterventions to patients with minimum wastage of resources to achieve best health outcomes.This can be achieved through a well functioning workforce who would be fair, responsive andefficient in providing the best quality of care to patients (Bodenheimer & Sinsky, 2014). It is alsoaimed at providing adequate care and treatment to patients through surgical, medical and nursingcare where patients’ health and life are the central concern of the healthcare institutions. Apart

2NURSING ASSIGNMENT from focusing on health care, the core business also involves the nursing sectorStress being apsychological assessment parameter in the form of occupational stress affects the patient care,responsibility, decision-making and organizational change. The work hours, human suffering,physical labour, staffing and interpersonal relationships has a great impact on the working stateof nurses that has created a turbulence in their working condition (Ulrich & Kear, 2014). Thelack of recognition as an employee, poor appraisal and working conditions like less nurse topatient ratio affect the nurses’ performance and the healthcare system as a whole. In a similar manner, core business of health institutions is also affected. Interpersonalrelationships between the healthcare provider and patient as well as burnout and poor workingconditions affect the performance and productivity of the healthcare organization as a whole. Theunderperformance of hospital staffs and poor delivery of care services affect the performance ofthe healthcare organization leading to nurse burnout and staff shortages. These factors adverselyaffect the provision of quality healthcare services among the healthcare organizations (Aiken etal., 2013). Process DataThe collection, classification and aggregation of data concerning prevention, mitigationand recovery strategies are the process data that is crucial for patient safety and quality of care.Process data measures determine the healthcare provider ability to maintain health and improvethe quality of care to the people receiving care (Moore et al., 2015). Process data reflects thegeneral recommendations that are required to improve the healthcare quality and ensure patientsafety. For the quality improvement, process data is a way to understand the actual scenario in

3NURSING ASSIGNMENT the delivery of healthcare services, factors affecting delivery of services and how improvementcan be achieved in quality and safety in healthcare. The processing of data can be done in manyways like staff or patient feedback, clinical audit or analysis of the near mistakes and misses(Ivers et al., 2014). Auditing in healthcare is a process for the assessment, evaluation and improvement ofpatient safety and care in a systematic way (Black, 2013). Auditing measures the current practiceagainst a standard or desired practice. This is a part of clinical governance that is aimed atsafeguarding the highest quality of care and safety in healthcare services. For instance, auditingof hand hygiene is a way to prevent hospital-associated infections and improve theorganizational practice in quality of healthcare services (Gould et al., 2017). Donabedian modelexplains that the measurement of process data evaluate the quality of care that contains thehealthcare delivery acts (Mumford et al., 2014). This data can be obtained from interviewingpatients and medical staffs, medical records or healthcare visits through direct observation(Victor et al., 2015). Therefore, this framework examines the healthcare services and evaluatesquality of healthcare. Outcome dataOutcome data measures in healthcare is defined as the change that is required for thepatients, medical staffs or population that attributes to an intervention to bring about a desirablechange (Nelson et al., 2015). It studies the results or outcomes of structure and process ofhealthcare system on the well-being and health of patients and medical staffs. It measures thehospital safety and quality performance in terms of outcome measuring mortality, patientexperience and readmission, etc. The outcome data measures, reports, compare the health

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