Quality and Safety in Health Care Practice: Project Proposal

Quality and Safety in Health
Care Practice: Project
Proposal

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Aim of the project............................................................................................................................1
Problem, Context and Background..................................................................................................1
Service Improvement.......................................................................................................................6
Usage of PDSA with integration of lean thinking...........................................................................7
Sustaining Change...........................................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Healthcare is known as improvement in the health of suffering person through consideration
of the various processes like prevention, diagnosis, treatment, recovery, cure of disease, illness,
injury and other physical or mental impairments. The duty of providing optimum health safety is
upon medical professionals allied with specialist health fields. One of the important aspect
associated with deliverance of health facilities is quality and safety. It is the duty upon health
professionals that provide quality services to patient irrespective to the nature of disease. Also,
they have to take all necessary steps for the safety of patient and other associated parties. The
importance of maintaining quality and safety within healthcare facilities is high because life of a
person depends upon the care services ascertained as treatment. Government also takes different
steps in this direction to govern activities of medical professionals with the aid of creating
policies and relevant legislations (McGraw, 2019). The topic selected for service improvement is
related to Pressure Ulcer among Dementia patients. Under this topic, major focus is provided
over ascertainment of challenges and prevention of Pressure Ulcer among Dementia Patients
within different hospital settings. The main aim of this report is to improve the services in local
health care practice regarding to the patients suffering from some specific issue and ascertaining
its support in delivering optimum safety and quality.
The aspects cover in this report includes selection of specific service improvement health
care practice and its importance towards patient safety & quality in healthcare, analysis of the
link between relevant policy, procedure, guideline & relevant research to the topic, analysis and
application of service improvement model along with lean thinking usage for addressing problem
and in last, analysis and application of change management theory along with critique of various
other similar theories.
Aim of the project
To ascertain the challenges and prevention aspects related to Pressure Ulcer among patients
suffering from Dementia within different hospital settings.
Problem, Context and Background
The profession of healthcare is most important as compared any other professions and
industries present within an environment. Healthcare include the activities related to diagnosing,
investigating and treatment of the patient’s health suffering from any kind of disease. It is the
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duty of medical professional to go through from all different stages of treatment irrespective of
the nature of disease, time and cost. They also have the obligation that all the necessary steps
will be taken that can help in improvement of health. This is the reason that safety and quality
are two important aspects while delivering healthcare services (Lavallée and et. al., 2018). The
point of safety has two different determinants that safety of patient’s, themselves and other. The
scope of safety is wide and different in nature for all associated parties. The safety of patient
means creation of environment where no harm will be ascertained due to performance of any
other activities. Also, the safety is needed to provide from any other kind of infections. Here, the
one more nature of safety is, where, some person already suffer from problem that is incurable in
nature then must focus over providence of personal assistance so no harm will be occurred in
future. On the other hand, the point of quality includes deliverance of services by the medical
professionals and different hospital settings in the any situation when patient visit for treatment.
The importance of this point is high from safety because inappropriate services has life
threatening impact over the health of patient. The point of safety has major characteristics of
prevention whereas quality holds the feature of cure. The importance of both point is similar at
their own positions. Safety works as the preventive measure that will help to elimination of
different kind of harms (Mitchell and Yaffe, 2018). Whereas, quality among services provides
the opportunity in early recover of patient. The both aspects also have relation with each other.
This is understood from the example that creation of safe environment and deployment of safe
practices provides the opportunity regarding quality treatment and early recover. The safe nature
of environment creates the positive working environment where chance of mistakes is less along
with infection from any other kind of disease that can hinder the power of current treatment. In
Solution of same, medical professionals must check the health of patient on regular basis so
ascertain that improvement is ascertained or not. This will not only help in removal other kind of
infraction but aid in ascertaining the viability of current treatment.
It is clear from the above description that importance of service improvement, safety and
quality within healthcare profession is important. The current topic covering report is also about
the service improvement in Pressure Ulcer among dementia patients. The aspects which are
analysing in deep for better understanding and clearing the views include ascertainment of
challenges and preventions in Pressure Ulcer among Dementia patients within different hospital
settings (Jaul and et. al., 2018). The description of the different associated terms along with
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