National Safety and Quality Health Service Standard Assessment 2022

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“NATIONAL QUALITY & SAFETY STANDARDS”
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Introduction
The foundation of the national safety and quality health service standard development
was done by the commission in partnership with the Government of Australia, territories and
states, the suppliers of the private sector, the clinical specialist, patients and caregivers (Dyar,
Tebano, & Pulcini, 2017).). The standards of NSQHS offer a national steady statement about the
level of care that patients can be expecting from healthcare services. In this paper, I am going to
critically reflect on nursing experiences and make a relationship of these nursing experiences to
two of the NSQHS standards. In this case, I am going to focus on preventing and controlling
Healthcare-associated infections and medical safety standards.
Preventing and Controlling Health Care-Associated Infections
Reporting
The health service organization ensures that healthcare leaders take part in the control
and prevention of infection linked to healthcare standards (Dyar, Tebano, & Pulcini, 2017). This
is achieved by the senior managers and the leaders in the organization implementing systems for
the management as well as for the prevention of healthcare infections. They then make this
known to other workers so that correct results can be realized.
Responding
The reason behind the creation of this standard was to have a healthcare-associated
infection that is preventable and then be able to manage those infections well when they take
place through the use of evidence-based tactics. The growth of new organisms keeps on
presenting new confrontations for supervision as well as preventing infections in healthcare
(Farmer, et, al. 2018). As a nurse, I witnessed the appearance and spread of “antimicrobial-
resistant bacteria” sometimes back in the health center that I worked. These bacterias are like

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“methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and also the vancomycin-resistant
enterococci (VRE)”.
Relating
I also saw other infections that emerged because of an increase in diseases. Examples of
this are multi-resistant Gram-negative bacteria and Clostridium difficile. Some of them produce
extended-spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBLs) or carbapenemases. In Australia’s health setting,
patients are normally treated in closeness to one another. I saw patients being treated through
actions where they have medical devices inserted and also receive immunosuppressive therapies
and broad-spectrum antibiotics. Such kind of conditions presents a possible means for the
adaptations as well as the spread of these pathogens and infectious organisms.
Reasoning
In every year, infections associated with healthcare are witnessed in a large number of
patients. This makes infections associated with healthcare the most frequent complication related
to patients infection in health centers (Gilbert, et, al. 2017). Majority of these infections need
medicines that are much expensive and stronger, and may also result in patient death or
disabilities that are a long life. Apart from causing harm to the patient as a result of healthcare-
related illnesses, they also increase the usage of health facilities and services. Patients are forced
to extend their stay in the hospital thus dropping access to accessible beds in the hospital by
other patients. As a nurse, I was also demanded as a hospital worker to spend a lot of time doing
tests to identify a patient’s illness.
Reconstruction
Almost half of the infections associated with healthcare can be prevented. Studies
contacted have revealed that there are mechanisms that can be used to lower the infections. The