Quality Improvement Initiative Research 2022

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Quality Improvement Initiative
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Quality Improvement Initiative
Considering poor performance reported from our organization lately, research was
carried out and came in an agreement on where improvements are required to ensure quality
improvement in the organization's operations. Quality improvement is strategies used to improve
the way services systematically or treatments are delivered to patients; the processes that are
used in quality improvement are capable of been controlled, measured, analyzed, and improved
accordingly. Been a nurse in this organization, I was assigned to survey on activities that are
carried on in the organization and suggest strategies for their improvements. This was after the
organization showed poor delivery of services to the patients. Due to the growth of technology in
the world today, many hospitals have adopted technology in their practices, and results have
been great. In our case, if we apply technology-based methods in our data recording sector, this
will help to ensure a smooth run in service providence.
From my research, it was quite clear that operations primarily in the data record sector
were slow compared to other healthcare centers in the neighborhood. The quiet activities in this
sector have led to overcrowding; thus, patients are forced to wait for long hours for services to be
provided to them. This has led to several deaths of patients in critical stages of illness. This is
because they have been forced to wait until it is too late. Moreover, data recording has not been
up to the standard expected from a well-operating health care center. We have experienced
patient data loss in our hospital; this has come up due to poor data-keeping means in our hospital.
In a hospital, data recording is one of the sensitive sectors that keep the health care center
running basing of facts and not assumptions. Correct data records ensure the right decisions have
been made, and thus minimal or no errors are witnessed—moreover, data collection act as a

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source of reference in the future when need arise. Therefore, our healthcare center should ensure
data are collected through a reliable means that is quick and can handle few people at a time.
This means of data recording should also provide safe data-keeping that can be retrieved anytime
should need to arise. This was after data loss became a common problem in our healthcare
center.
Why Quality improvement is needed
From the problem discussed above, the reason we need quality improvement is to avoid
overcrowding in our health care data sectors and other sectors due to slow operations. Moreover,
once this improvement is made, the healthcare center will not suffer data loss, and it will be easy
to retrieve data information whenever it is needed. This will ease up operations in our hospital
and ensure all data recorded is safely kept (Till et al. 2015). Moreover, the reduction of crowding
will lead to saving of lives to those patients that are in critical condition since data recording is
done quickly, and treatment starts immediately. Quality improvement is needed to ensure the
smooth running of healthcare services.
Moreover, quality improvement will lead to timely responses to admitted patients. Errors
that are occurring will not be experienced when this improvement is made in time. The needed
improvements will help save on time during the services that are run in the healthcare center.
Common knowledge suggests that machines make work more relaxed; the employments of
technological machines will make the job easier for nurses and other medical experts in our
hospital (Stewart et al. 2017). By so doing, nurses and medical experts will not strain to deliver
services to patients, and this will ensure the services provided are of good quality. To summarize,