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HCA 450 - Quality Management in Health Care Assignment

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Quality in Health Care (HCA-450)

   

Added on  2020-03-04

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This assignment will define quality in health care and explain the key elements of total quality management and continuous quality improvement in the healthcare context, two terms safety in health care and patient safety. It will explain organizational factors that can support or inhibit the implementation of effective quality management systems in the hospital facility.

HCA 450 - Quality Management in Health Care Assignment

   

grand canyon university

   

Quality in Health Care (HCA-450)

   Added on 2020-03-04

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2QUALITY IN HEALTHCARETable of contentDefine quality in health care and explain the key elements of total quality management andcontinuous the quality improvement in the health care context......................................................3Patient safety is considered to be the cornerstone of high quality health care. What is meant bytwo terms safety in health care and patient safety?.........................................................................4Name and explain at least 3 key organizational factors that can support or inhibit theimplementation of effective quality management systems in hospital facility?..............................5What is understood by the term ‘safety culture’ in health care and how it can be measured? Whatis the significance of a poor safety culture for health care professionals and patients?..................6What is the role of clinical leaders when ensuring quality improvement in the clinical setting?...7Reference Lists................................................................................................................................8
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3QUALITY IN HEALTHCARE1.0 Define quality in health care and explain the key elements of total qualitymanagement and continuous the quality improvement in the health carecontextQuality in health care means that give high quality of health care which can use to measure theeffectiveness of the organization that provide it. With the help of this quality measurement toolhealthcare processes can be quantified. This can provide high quality health care with one ormore quality goals [ CITATION Kam17 \l 1033 ]. Patient safety is the high quality of health care.With the help of this clinicians can easily prevent the postoperative infections, pressure ulcers,and catheter related infections as well as prevent some other infections as well. Preoperativemortality can also be prevented with the help of this. This can also prevent the thromboembolismas well. This is the high quality in health care. Key elements of total quality management are asManagement’s commitment, Satisfaction of the customers, Preventing the defects rather thandetecting it, Quality measurement, Continuous improvement, Identifying the root causes, Propertraining support, Benchmarking, Employees involvement, High quality recognition. Quality improvement consists of continues action that can lead to measurable improvement inthe health care processes. Quality improvement always works as a process or systems[ CITATIONKha16 \l 1033 ]. This mainly focuses on the patients and focuses on the being part of the team aswell. Data use also focus in this quality improvement. Point safety is identified as the highquality in health care. Improvising quality in healthcare can cater to increased effectiveness ofoverall systems. This improving their efforts by learning proper lesson from the business, usingproper technology, consumer educating, and new reporting system for error checking and also
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