Leading Improvement and Innovation in the Quality and Safety of Nursing and Health Care

Leading Improvement and Innovation in the Quality and Safety of Nursing and Health
Care

Running Head: Report
Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................... 2
Rationale and literature review............................................................................................ 3
Goal............................................................................................................................. 4
Quality improvement framework to guide implementation and evaluation.......................................4
Overview of the implementation strategy............................................................................... 5
Evaluation methods to assess quality improvement processes and outcomes....................................6
Sustainability plan.......................................................................................................... 10
Conclusion................................................................................................................... 11
References................................................................................................................... 12
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Running Head: Report
Introduction
Clinical quality and safety issue are the most important concept in the context of Healthcare
organization. There were many authors who defined quality care and safety issues in different
manners. The delivery of optimal care for the patient is an ongoing process and it builds on the
foundation of evidence-based care. It is very essential for managing the safety and provides
quality care to the patients. An Australian Commission has established some of the standards in
relation to the national safety and quality health services with the support of the Australian
government. All of these standards set by the Australian commission aims towards the protection
of the public from harm and improve the quality of Health Service provisions. In assessment 1,
the main focus was given on the preventive measures to control on the healthcare associated
infections and interventions. According to the national standard Framework the section of
prevention and controlling infections describes all the Strategies and Systems, which helps the
Healthcare organization to stop infections and to manage the infections effectively whenever
they occur (Hartmann, 2018). Many researchers have found that Healthcare-associated infections
are the issues for patient Safety and it mainly transmitted through Healthcare workers. The
intervention that has been suggested in assignment one was related to hand hygiene. Hand
hygiene helps to prevent infections and bacterial diseases. This research proposal focuses on the
various problems that faced by all the patients as well as workers while working in the hospital
organization and how those problems can be resolved by adopting the different strategies.
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Rationale and literature review
The current problem that basically highlighted in this proposal is related to the risk of transfer of
infection among the people that worked in healthcare organizations due to the exposure to
chemicals, injections, Fluids and many other reasons. The main reason for occurring
organization is because of getting in touch with one person to another person. The main purpose
of this proposal is to review the literature with intent to find out the preventive measures for the
healthcare-associated infections. This proposal is of great importance as it helps in evaluating
some of the important methods, which can be used to assess the quality of the products (Long,
Yue, Peng, Xiong, & Li, 2018).
According to the previous literature, it was found that the Healthcare-associated infection was
defined as those infections that occur not at the time of admitting the patient into the hospital but
it occurs 48 to 72 hours after the patient admission. Some of the hospitals used the same
definition about healthcare-associated infection but not all the hospitals used this definition,
which is given by the centre for disease control and prevention. From the previous literature
review, it was found that there were many reasons behind the occurrence of infection among the
patients and health workers. Some of the means of transmission of infection that was observed
by the previous literature were related to the contact transmission, respiratory droplets, airborne
spread and hand touch activities. According to research of Amy S. Collins, there are many
preventive measures, which can be taken by the hospitals in order to minimize the risk of
infections. He believed that the occurrence and undesirable complications from the Healthcare-
associated infections has been continuously increasing from the last several decades. The
problem that found by the researcher was that these unanticipated infections developed during
the course of Health Care treatment resulted in the severe illness and death of patients. It is
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