Industry Reflection National Safety and Quality Standards

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INDUSTRY REFLECTION NATIONAL SAFETY & QUALITY
STANDARDS

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The safety and quality control commission of Australia mainly developed the national safety and
quality health service standard (Ritchie, Gaca, Siemensma, Taylor & Gilbert, 2018). These
standards being controlled by Australia Government can provide cost effective quality health care
services (Levada, Johnson, Gore & Ireland, 2015).
NSHQS standards:
According to, Flanigan, (2016), there are eight standards, which are as follows:
 Clinical governance:
This standard describes a patient's clinical situation and proper governance procedures
while he or she will stay under medical observation.
 Partnering with consumers:
This standard deals with introducing a person-oriented health care system where patients
remain a pivotal part of decision making leading to empowerment of patients as the partner
of their self care (Hogden, Debono, Greenfield & Braithwaite, 2015).
 Preventing and controlling healthcare associated infection:
This standard explains the strategies and procedures for prevention and management of
infections and elimination by using antimicrobial resistance.
 Medication safety:
This standard explains the strategies to assure that appropriate medicines are provided to
the patients by the clinicians by safely prescribing, dispensing and monitoring.
 Comprehensive care:
This strategy aims at developing individual person oriented care plan by proper check up,
analysis & interpretation, risk identification to prevent and minimize risk in affected areas.
 Communicating for safety:
This strategy deals with effective communications among patients & their families,
clinicians, doctors etc.
 Blood management:

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This strategy deals with self and effective care of patients’ self blood along with other
blood supplies.
 Recognizing and responding to acute deterioration:
This strategy aims at effectively responding to patients with deteriorating mental, physical
and cognitive condition.
Using Gibbs’ reflective cycle for improving the quality of the discussed
standards:
Being an experienced nurse I think from all these mentioned standards medication safety and
blood management standards need more improvement for the safety of the patients.
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