Importance of Following Safety and Quality Standards in Healthcare Practice

Running head: CLINICAL MANAGEMENT
CLINICAL MANAGEMENT
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Contents
Introduction:....................................................................................................................................2
Answer no. 1:...................................................................................................................................2
Answer no. 2:...................................................................................................................................3
Answer no. 3:...................................................................................................................................6
Preventing and controlling healthcare associated infections:......................................................6
effective communication among stakeholders:...........................................................................7
Answer no. 4:...................................................................................................................................9
Conclusion:....................................................................................................................................10
References:....................................................................................................................................11

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Introduction:
The assignment would mainly be depicting the importance of following important safety
and quality standards by the healthcare professionals in the nation of Australia. It would mainly
associate a case study analysis in order to provide examples how improper and negligent care
delivery has the capacity to affect the life of patients and family members in negative ways.
Answer no. 1:
This paragraph would be discussing about the clinical practice issues during the treatment
of the patient. In the entire case study, a number of clinical issues were found to be present that
had resulted in a poor quality life of the patient. One of the most important clinical issues was
that during the time of giving birth to her third child, the patient was already recognized to be
suffering from cholelithiasis. However, the healthcare centre did not take any necessary steps to
help the patient get over the issue. In the next healthcare centre also, it was seen that the
professional completely failed to understand the severity of the situation of the patient and had
only provided her pain medication. Such situation further aggravated the health condition of the
patient and made her suffer from more pain the following day. Moreover, the second hospital
had not give her any medication treatment that she needed to follow in cases when her pain was
high in her home.
In the third hospital, a number of issues were identified which showed that the
professionals neglected their practices and were lack of proper organizational culture that
ensured safety health of patients. While the patient was staying at the hospital, it was seen that
the surgery was repeatedly postponed which resulted her to develop a secondary situation of
cholecysticis. Even after recognizing that the patient was suffering massively, the professionals

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were careless and they took such surgery to be a casual one by keeping the other surgeries as
their first priorities. Their carelessness resulted in bursting of the gall bladder that created further
issues as the gallstones blocked the bile duct (Bansal et al., 2014). This complication was only
due to negligence of the healthcare professionals that resulted in suffering of the patient. Another
clinical issue that was observed that the healthcare professionals constantly kept the patient in a
fasting stage or in a very light diet stage as they were constantly postponing the surgery. This
resulted the patient in remaining empty stomach for a long time that was not only a fact of
negligence affecting human dignity but also weakened her largely. Therefore, all these issues
were noted in the case study.
Another issue that was observed is the wound infection of the patient that took place after
she was released from the healthcare centre. It was found that the patient has infection in the
drainage site and this was contributed to the improper wound dressing and wound management
of the nursing professional who was caring for the patient. The wound had inflamed and there
arose a risk for sepsis and this might have resulted in improper dry wound management that
should have been applied to her (Mikkonen et al., 2016). Moreover, it is the duty of the
healthcare professionals to care for the patients in ways so that they remain free from anxiety and
fear in the stages before operation is conducted and too not provide any sort of medication before
laparoscopic cholecystectomy would be conducted (Cherry & Jacobs, 2016). However, the
situation was such that it had the chance of raising her blood pressure that could have acted as a
barrier for surgery.