Nursing Leadership Governance and Culture: Importance of National Safety Standards in Healthcare Organizations

Report

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
A clinical practice in nursing is generally referred as the ability of the nurses to
effectively solve the problems as well as provide the quality care to the patients. In this report it
is been covered that the various national safety standards which has been implemented in a
healthcare organization so as to achieve the main objectives that an organization does contains.
This report covers the various advantages or the importance of adapting such standards and the
clinical guidelines that makes an impact over the health of the patients care. As the clinical
practices and the national safety standards are essential because they aims to intercept and also
decreases the chances of risks, errors and the harms which may occurs to the patients during the
provision of healthcare. The report will also cover the different factors which make influence in
patient centred care, their quality as well as safety in terms of communication and medication
safety standards and various others also. The safety in nursing care may impact the patients
outcomes but if they may effectively designed and established then these basic protocols
encourage the healthcare administrators and make them to learn from their past mistakes,
enhance their trustiness among medical staffs and leads to reduce the errors and most
significantly decreases the patient mortality rates.

Table of Contents
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.............................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
LITERATURE REVIEW................................................................................................................1
DISCUSSION..................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
RECOMMENDATIONS.................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Clinical research is quite important in order to find a new treatment for any disease. It is
also a new way to detect as well as diagnose and overcome the chances of developing the new
illness. The purpose of this report is too aware about the various guidelines of the NSQHS which
should be adapted by every healthcare department. This report will cover the various clinical
practices which should be acquired by the nurses so that they can provide a quality care to their
patients. As per this report, it will cover the various problems which was faced by Mandy
Andrews who is suffering from ruptured appendix problem. In addition to this, this report will
also cover the various risk management strategies which should be why are NSQHS standards
developed adapted by the healthcare professionals that significantly makes an impact over the
organization's ability to achieve its objectives as it is quite essential for every healthcare system
to maintain its link (Breytenbach & et. al., 2017).
LITERATURE REVIEW
A literature search utilises the electronic information which includes the clinical
practices that must be adhered by the nurses or caregivers in a particular organization. As it is
necessary to improve the clinical practices among the healthcare professionals in a particular
healthcare system so that they can provide a better quality care to their patients. As per the
national safety and quality health services standards (NSQHSS), these standard areas are made
for people in order to ensure the quality as well as consistency of the products and the services
which are provided for their greater relief of mind. Such standards make benefits to enhance the
health and safety, develops the quality of life also (Duncombe, 2018).
The root cause analysis of the given case study is that Mandy has issue with the
medication where the same medication which include 20 mg of morphine is administered two
time within 45 minute. This mistake is occurring due to Registered nurse Smith who verbally
state that Mandy require morphine and there is no documentation is done over that day which
may cause issue and again enrolled nurse Black also administered 20 mg morphine again to
Mandy. With this all, the factor is initiated with the leading cause of narcosis from the morphine
in Mandy case. As per this, to reduce the increase of narcosis the non-inflammatory drug is
administered with the slow rate can used to put the Mandy from the risk zone. Overall, the root
cause analysis of Mandy case study is overdose of drug due the documented error that result in
the medication error. In this, issue is identified and causes are usually prioritising which is
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