Organizational Systems Assignment
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Running head: Organizational Systems Task 11Organizational Systems and Quality LeadershipTask 1Your Name (without letters or titles)Western Governors UniversityUpdated 4/242018
Running head: Organizational Systems Task 12Organizational Systems and Quality Leadership Task 1This template is intended to be used for task 1 for all assessment versions.Please follow the task instructions in TASKSTREAM in responding to these prompts.A. Understanding of Nursing Quality IndicatorsThe nursing sensitive indicators are widely used as a barometer of measuring the nursingstandard. It can be defined as a set of standardized performance that are used by the hospitals forevaluating the extent of the nursing interventions (Neuman et al., 2014). The NSIs have beenused in the hospital unit or portraying the reality of the nursing service. An evaluation at leastrequires the minimum number if indicators in order to recognize the nursing standard of aparticular organization. As per the national initiatives driven by the American NursesAssociation, indicators like pressure ulcers, metabolic derangement and patient dissatisfactioncan be recognized as one of the quality indicators of the nursing standard (Neuman et al., 2014).. The case study reveals the fact that the when Mr. J’s daughter visited the hospital to meet hisfather and was helping the certified nursing assistant to get her father to the bathroom, she founda red depressed area over the lower spine. The red depressed area was probably a pressure ulcer.According to Jiang et al., (2013) the occurrence of a pressure ulcer has been consideredas one of the indicators of health care quality and safety. Bedsores of pressure ulcers are mainlycaused due to the prolonged pressure over a certain region of a skin that causes injuries to theunderlying tissue of the skin. This occurs normally in the patients with limited mobility.Repositioning is an important way out for mitigating the chances of the pressure ulcers. Nursesshould be responsible for shifting the weight of the patient to other sides. Occurrence of pressureulcers even after clear guidance of patient mobilization indicates towards the breaching of thenursing guidelines. Updated 4/242018
Running head: Organizational Systems Task 13It is also evident from the case study that the patient’s food was replaced by the food of anotherpatient. Nutritional management is an essential aspect of patient care and occurrence of suchnegligence can directly indicate towards nursing malpractice. Hospital food and nutrition plays an important role in the patient recovery and well being.The food service quality can impact upon the patient satisfaction with the overall hospitalexperiences. Provision of wrong diet to patients may cause adverse reactions likehypersensitivity reactions. Dementia patients should refrain from consuming high fat meats likepork, lamb, beef and hydrogenated vegetable oils, but it can be seen that the patient has beenprovided with a pork cutlet. B. Advancing Quality Patient CareThe hospital data about the nursing quality indicators gives a clear picture of the current nursing standard of a particular clinical care setting, which would help the administrators to indentify the gaps left in the care delivery (Johnstone, 2015). Presence of pressure ulcers in patient with low immobilization indicates that the health care staffs are not accomplishing their duties. Higher the number of incidence of pressure ulcers or the application of restraints determines the quality of care provided by the health care staffs. The data would help to identify the intervening factors and revert the detected scenario. It helps out the managers by guiding them towards the key points that has to be reviewed (Johnstone, 2015). The data obtained from this information would help to determine, document or evaluate a given situation and support decision making in future scope of practice. It helps an organization to analyze what was working, what depended on the care, the proposed goal. It is necessary for the aged care homes to review the number of times thepatient has to be put in restraints which can be a rationale for finding an alternative care for the Updated 4/242018
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