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400777 Leadership for Quality Effectiveness and Safety in Health Care

   

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Leadership for Quality Effectiveness and Safety in Health Care 1Leadership for Quality Effectiveness and Safety in Health Care

Leadership for Quality Effectiveness and Safety in Health Care 2IntroductionThis report emphasizes on the evaluation of the relationship exist between work performance,human factors and quality and safety in healthcare. There are different healthcare systems aredesigned by the organizations for the purpose of meeting different needs of the patients toimprove the quality of care and safety of patients. Human resources play a significant role inimproving the processes of nursing. It is essential for the organizations to develop effectivecommunication platform in order to clarify the information related to the roles andresponsibilities carried out by doctors and nurses in hospitals. Human factors are considered important for the management of systems and process design as ithelps in development of the required capabilities in the workforce. Nowadays, healthcareorganizations focus on human factors as they facilitates in development of different strategies forimproving patient safety. The biggest challenge faced by healthcare institutions is maintainingand developing patient safety by delivering quality care services to the patients. The thesisstatement is that there is an existence of the significant relationship between human factors, workperformance and quality and patient safety in healthcare that helps in fostering safe and positivework culture in the organization.Identification of human factors related to work performanceIn relation to this, Fryer (n.d.) stated that human factors are considered as an important processdesign which helps in building capabilities and limitations of workforce. There is a need ofhuman factor design in the nursing profession as there are various challenges that are faced bynursing profession. For the purpose of mitigating such challenges like unmonitored workloadswhich is associated with the scope and role of a nurse in a direct or indirect manner, humanfactor design is appropriate. Human factor emphasis on the analysis of the properties of thehuman being capability and limitation for the purpose on engineering elements like development,

Leadership for Quality Effectiveness and Safety in Health Care 3distribution, application design and categorization of services and systems. This helps inimproving the quality, safety and operational performance of the organization.In the views of Cafazzo and Cyr (2012), there is an increasing the trend of human factorsengineering in the healthcare which improves safety and efficiency. The strategies related tobehavior change helps in improving the performance of employees in order to ensure patientsafety in the hospitals. Nowadays, different practitioners adopted a systematic approach for thepurpose of mitigating the human errors by designing the socio-technical work environment.Along with this, human resources also tend to rely on interventions that results in improving theuser performance by the way of providing training to reduce the impact of adverse events. Thereis also an increased dependency on automation with little intervention of human beings mightresult in propagate errors in the system in an easy manner. There is a need of human beings for the purpose of making judgments related to the provision ofdifferent care services to patients in order to eliminate errors. Human resources in the medicalindustry uses user centered design for the purpose of creating systems where different prototypesand concepts can employ training for optimization of the design of the system. The otherframework is the ecological interface design which is used in the healthcare to design humanmachine interface for complex systems. This helps in gaining information related tounanticipated conditions occurred that hurdles the patient safety. This framework helps inmodernizing the user interface of high risk radiotherapy and detection of cardiovascular risks.In contrast to this, Patel and Kannampallil (2014) states that the health information systems donot guarantee the safety and care of the patients in the healthcare institutions. Theimplementation of a HEF helps in the designing of the healthcare systems that has a significantimpact on the quality of care and patient safety. This approach helps in improving the

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