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Caring Culture in Healthcare 1CARING CULTURE IN INTENSIVE CARE UNIT.By (Student Name)Professor’s NameCollegeCourseDate
Caring Culture in Healthcare 2Executive SummaryConnecting In the division of nursing, the delivery of patient’s care is centered andalso the most basic to healthcare organizations. Connecting with those ailing in a communicatinga reasonable apprehension by maintaining eye contact with the patient and involving in active listening creates a caring environment. Intensive care units (ICUs) are the most intricate and exclusive department in all healthcare’s. The complexity of the organization makes its structuring of care an aim of performance enhancement strategies. Assigning intensivists in the management of the ICU patients instead of nurses from referral departments is one of the improvement made. The paper gives full insight on and establishes the concept of care, caring culture and probably to do so by the practical viewpoint of nurses' and the intensivist in the care of patients under intensive care unit (ICU).Contents
Caring Culture in Healthcare 3Executive Summary .................................................................................................2Introduction...........................................................................................................4Background...............................................................................................................4An overview of nursing highlighting practice changes that influenced nursing caring culture.............................................................................................................5Evidence analysis of the findings..............................................................................6Observation............................................................................................................6People receiving care.............................................................................................7Carers.....................................................................................................................7Analysis of the current caring culture regarding the attributes, enabling factors and consequences.............................................................................................................8The enabling factors............................................................................................10The consequences................................................................................................11Conclusion...............................................................................................................11Recommendations...................................................................................................12References...............................................................................................................13CARING CULTURE IN INTENSIVE CARE UNIT.
Caring Culture in Healthcare 4IntroductionCulture is the mode of conduct or how things get to be done. Individuals make up aculture based on the role they play in a society and their routine, and daily practices make up the culture. It is crucial for every individual to be aware that their ideas can bring about change in their various communities. (Salman and Zoucha 2010) In organizational cultures, each organization is made up of different cultures for instance in departments, unit levels and words. In such a workplace culture has a larger influence on individuals in the specialty area such as the staff, family or the patients. Caring culture in healthcare is a workplace engaging mostly the patients and their families, staff members, service users and the residents around. In this report, the area of specialty chosen was is the critical care nursing whose main aim is to explore and explain the culture of critical care nurses. BackgroundIntensive care units (ICUs) are the most intricate and exclusive department in all healthcare’s. the complexity of the organization makes its structuring of care an aim of performance enhancement strategies. Assigning intensivists in the management of the ICU patients instead of nurses from referral departments is one of the improvement made. The proportional percentage of the hospitalized patient’s admission is expected to rise due to the aging population as well as an increase of acuity of illness (Beek and Gerritsen 2010). Beside themortality rate reducing after assigning of the intensivists, mortality rate is still significantly high in the ICU department. For this reason, several changes have been initiated in the ICU which have impacted on quality of the patient care and the general cost as discussed below; The effect of the intensivist.
Caring Culture in Healthcare 5There before in the early days, patients were under the care of physicians. The caring culture was low considering the fact that there was lack of enough knowledge of the intensive care needed by the patients. The physicians were not offering continued care for the didnot give daily care services. The introduction of the intensivist who operate for 24 hours in a day and are not assigned any other duties at these hours other than offering the care needed by the patients. These changes have led to a reduction in mortality rate in the intensive care department (André, Sjøvold, Rannestad and Ringdal 2014).Changes of the ICU nurses.There has been a change in the nurse to bed ratio in that, the ratio of nurses to patient is currently 1:1 or 1:2 in the intensive unit. Mortality rate has therefore decreased especially to the patients suffering from hypertension and asthma reason being the immediate care of the nurses in times of attacks (Lillis, LeMone, LeBon and Lynn 2010).Effect of outreach teams. Since the intensive unit is admitted those patients who are critically ill, outreach teams are installed to reach out to patients before deuteriation period starts. The introduction of the service was mainly aimed on education help and practical support of the ward stuff. The service led to the reduced mortality rate and patients could have a lengthy stay (Morton, Fontaine, Hudak and Gallo 2017).Change of patient management systems.
Caring Culture in Healthcare 6The introduction of patient digital management (PDMS) has made the services easier by giving the intensivist with a summary of the patient’s data. The management also has an ability to predict on risks that may affect the patients in the intensive care unit. With the new management, manual data collection is not in use hence reducing chances of error in the data. The overall changes have led to a better patient outcome and a decrease in intensivist work load (Bourque 2011).Evidence analysis of the finding.Evidence of analyses of the findings from observation, the stories from people receiving care and their carers in this context the intensivists, the families and patients in the ICU. There was a tremendous awareness of the necessity to address the culture and background in project groups using the approaches of the research activity. There was the identification of a focus on empowering staffs in the project. A recognition that for culture to be sustained and be improved, a change needed in the social system instead of being dependent on persons (Lehne and Rosenthal 2014).ObservationAfter visiting one the findings on the safety of the patient could discuss the occurrence that takes place when health care services provided to the patient. Errors detected while offering the services which lead to harmful effects. This error could be error of omissions, error of commissions as well as faults of the care processes that involves equipment's or drugs administered. In avoiding such harmful effects to the patients, some practices were observed to be kept in place (Leininger 2011). Infection control is one of the methods found that because thatmost of the patients admitted to the hospitals tend to acquire the nosocomial infection, a
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