Clinical Practice Guidelines for Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia

This assignment involves reviewing and analyzing various clinical practice guidelines related to hospital-acquired and ventilator-associated pneumonia. The guidelines are provided by reputable sources such as the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the American Thoracic Society. Students are expected to read, understand, and summarize these guidelines in a comprehensive manner.

Understanding Operations, Logistics and Supply Chain Management
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UNDERSTANDING OPERATIONS, LOGISTICS AND SUPPLY
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Table of Contents
Introduction:....................................................................................................................................3
Critical review of relevant operation:..............................................................................................3
Logistics and supply chain management theories:..........................................................................4
Managing people in operation:........................................................................................................5
New product or service development and process:.........................................................................7
Solutions in operation management:...............................................................................................8
Conclusion:......................................................................................................................................9
Reference list:................................................................................................................................10
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Introduction:
The hospital industry in the market has created a symmetric version for the development of the
hospital industry itself and the formative process for the customer service. As this industry takes
care of the customers in a logical way, so it is necessary that they understand the requirements of
the people and work as per their preferences. From the internal management to the external
marketing system each thing needs to be proper and understandable so that the procedure can
able to continue in a logical stage. The transformation system also works as a better way with the
incorporation of alternation, storage and inspection for each department. The output system will
suggest the other facilities for the development and participation for the management structure in
a better way (Mebazaa et al. 2015). All the process will adjoin in a systematic way with the
corporation of proper control of each things and monitoring structure for further growth and
development. London Bridge Hospital industry with their presentable structure creates the
efficiency of service so that it can work in a better way. The organization’s profitability and the
appropriate structure deliver the basic including the proper market orientation for the customers.
The private service sector has created their market in such a way so that the customers can able
to get the perfect service and it needs to be done within time. In this task, the entire paper will
follow up the process for the London Bridge Hospital industry and their management system
including the services and the supply chain management system of the industry. Furthermore,
London Bridge Hospital industry will adopt the appropriate system preferences created the
progressive basis that connect the entire procedure for the future benefit.
Critical review of relevant operation:
From setting up the management, structure to creating the strong and effective purposes in work
culture can generate the particular understating for the entire organizational basis. This procedure
of the proper management structure acts with the market efficiency so that the patients in the
hospital able to get the prefect services, as they desire within small amount of time. From the
input factors to the output and managing, the organizational management need to structure in
such a way so that the entire thing can find the suitable foundation in order to grow in the market
(Sakamoto et al. 2014). The London Bridge Hospital being the most efficient privately operate
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hospital industry creates their strong basis in the market and organizes things with the systematic
and effective purposes. Some of the important organizational factor assists for the infrastructure
that includes broad quality committee and several QI terms, organize the time and resources and
the trust board values and priorities. Compensation attached to the quality goals and it will
incorporate with the quality management’s structure so that the entire procedure can process with
some of the best practices, and the standard and the appropriate quality standard create the best
measures for the organizational best practices. In the output system, the organization will also
face the motivation and engagement to work and the manger with the clinical relationship. The
critical review procedure work better with the different market suggestions and this will cater the
positive and efficient perspective for the entire management channel. With proper commitment
and engagement with each of the department, the organization is able to fulfill the requirements
of the patients and suggest them with the best physicians and the time-to-time check up facilities
with proper medications. Some of the evidence-based practices cater the perfect and associate
objectives so that it can generate the best state for the further growth and development criteria.
Education and knowledge on quality serve the best perspective for London Bridge Hospital and
they have created some of the best assessment for curving the each department from admitting
the patients, finance department, assessing with the doctors, supply appropriate medicines and
managing each management.
Logistics and supply chain management theories:
London Bridge Hospital has their structure for the outstanding service delivery and this
procedure has catered the best suitable state for the best services to the customers. The logistic
system and the supply chain management need to be proper and understandable so that the each
procedure can properly fall in place and act as the effective and strong prospect for different
service verities. The relationship between the logistic system and the supply chain management
of London Bridge Hospital consider as the better scope in the market and create the
organizational upstream progression in various areas. The co-ordinate management system
generate the best possible database so that from upstream that is the suppliers and the
downstream that is the customers can able to get the best things from the market. In order to
achieve the suppliers’ value and to deliver the best things to the customers it needs to adjoin with
the capable and proficient market structure of the hospital industry. The procurement value needs
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to be in a proper place then this structure can able to define the different effective strategies in an
appropriate way to find out the entire significance (Vestbo et al. 2016). The supply side
relationship has their integrated structure for the organizational growth statement. The
sustainable supply chain management acts with several other market potentiality and perfection
that cater some of the best possibilities in market for further development criteria. The strategic
actions, tactical actions and the organizational actions need to be proper and progressive so that
the design for the entire logistic management can face the best service delivery to the patients.
This supply chain management work with the sociological perspective and the organizational
decision making prospect also act in a symmetric way for the entire thing. The organizational
learning and the inter-organizational networks include the resource based strategic management
procedure considering the strong economic perspective. Procurement and SCM work with the
resource dependency theory that caters the idea about the well-established organizational
activities and the management of buyer and supplier relationship within the organization.
Selection of the suppliers those who will cater medicines and the transaction procedure including
the strategic choice of the organization create the best suggestion for the organizational
development and growth idea (Barbier et al. 2016).
Figure 1: Logistics and supply chain management procedure
(Source: O'Gar, 2013, p-90)
In the supply chain management the London Bridge Hospital apply for the institutional
dependency regarding different departments and the management of value chain will take the
front stage. Collaborative and the co-ordinate structure build the effective network to generate
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the integrated SCM perspectives. The strategy will further drawn from the representation of
transaction and cost purposes, dynamic capabilities and the resource based technique assist for
the organizational need and provide proper direction for the entire thing. Inter-organizational
relationship and the integrated marketing style grounded with different systems with the
coordination of the particular behavioral economic system and the organizational state for the
betterment (O'Gara et al. 2013). Other than that, the problem solving technique work for the
development and engagement of several other criteria for the problem solving persuasion.
Managing people in operation:
Management of the people within the organization is the first and foremost effective technique
that caters the suggestive and progressive statement for ultimate culmination of different things
in a possible way. From the observation of organizational need to fulfilling the need of the
customers, every procedure is necessary to incorporate to the growth and develoepmnt factor so
that the management projection can able to continue. Management leadership will provide the
strong engagement with the each department so that people can work in a proper way and serve
the customers with the best services. The direct contact with the customers and follow up the
doctors for the medication and better treatment systems can engage the highly credible procedure
for the organization. The communicative vision and the effective clinical and leader work
procedure need to be present there. The service leader by the help of passionate advocate for own
services and they take up different responsibilities for better clinical and financial performance
(Zingg et al. 2015). The proper moderation for the direct contact with the patients their family
act as the proper criteria for the different services and this assist for the effective performance
generation. Some of the efficient frontier clinician who focuses on improving and delivering
excellent patient care for the organizational and patient need poses for the fruitful result for the
organization. the service leader also act for the highly credible to the colleagues catering to the
different department, primarily as the clinician those who are well-concerned tap into the
different centers for the creative and innovative work priorities.
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Figure 2: Managing people in operation in hospital
(Source: Mebazaa et al. 2015, p-550)
However, the corporate level strategic thinking and the proper talent management state including
the succession planning deliver some of the best practices for the organization. Political
perceptive, strong skills in negotiation and the effective influence for the entire thing create the
proper working justification for the organization (Burke, 2013). London Bridge Hospital has
their own different so that they can act logically for the engagement and participation for several
needs of the customers. The organization also believes in fluent and efficient service
management skills that is the incorporation of strategy and the people engagement for the
development and the proper budget procedure. Detailed knowledge of evidence based medicine
in the clinical area and understanding of the different systems and quality improvement
techniques work for the better operational improvement and the process mapping criteria
(Fleisher et al. 2015). With each terms the working prospect need to be particular and efficient
so that the self-starter and working for each terms and better future projection. As the operation,
management is cordially connected with the people management so London Bridge Hospital
deals with the integrated service development, design each of the process systematically. The
organization with a strapping operation strategy and the improvement of the management
including the service development cater the best state for the entire thing. As the health care
industry has changed different service catering process from past few years so that the
operational technicality develop the methodical approach for the entire thing. The transaction
procedures by the assistance of the management act with different procedures and procedures.
This transaction process makes simple financial statement and affect significantly for the
organizational revenue flow.
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New product or service development and process:
The new services and the adjoined state of the management practices in London Bridge Hospital
analyzed and several other initiate have taken so that in future the working projection become all
the more successful. From the top innovators to the logical work projection in the patient care
and achieving daily activity cater best projection to the patient care purposes. For the new service
development procedure the organization has applied some of the effective procedure like idea
generation, idea screening, concept development and targeting, feasibility and the analytical
statement and finally the product development stage (Umpierrez et al. 2013). In order to proper
projection for service credibility the organization perform for the ability to execute , receive and
processed different services directly by taking help of the online platform. The customers get to
face an easy and effective state for the payment system so that the customers can easily pay and
arrange things within time.
Figure 3: New product or service development and process
(Source: Kalil et al. 2016, p-110)
While developing the new services like the online transactions, serving more beds to the patients,
connecting internationally with more clinics in international and domestic market, adopting
particular management style for the organizational overall development and the proper treatment
and medication implications suggest the best practices for the entire thing (Bloom et al. 2015).
The management structure has introduced in such a way so that the team members can execute
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each of the effective procedure and connect for the better development in each things with the
inclusion of different service offerings. From smart product allocations which and remote and
monitor each of the processes and generate better control for the autonomous operation of
different product functions and create better control and the optimization techniques. The
analytics engine and the applied different roles connect better with the organizational logics, big
data capabilities and some of the involved product operation and giving insight for the new
product development. The big data database system create and enable the normalization,
aggregation and some of the real time data base system for the real time historical product data
management. All the procedures in management technique generate the perfection in networking
communication and working in coordination with the protocols and the systematic engagement
between the entire things.
Solutions in operation management:
The operation management helps in maintaining dignified and well-structured hospitality
environment that advocates the needs of the internal management regarding hospitality facilities
and equipment modification. The operations management team is initially trained group of
individuals who govern the internal operations regarding medicines, doctors, equipment,
discharges and more. The effective strategies implemented by the managment team foster equity
and overall improvisation. There are certain health laws and improvement programs such as CPI,
HPI and birth control. It not only spreads awareness but also makes the team and the people
aware of such programs that make one knowledgeable in the field of hospitality. With the
constant need of nationwide emphasis on healthcare reform, legal laws, hospitals and healthcare
benefits faces increasing forces and stress to cut costs and betterment performance. Thereby
people are keen towards solutions through an operational lens (Kalil et al. 2016). It is said that
the field of operations management and the value that it provides through the general
employment scheme of skilled practitioners will enhances additional and structured visibility.
The hospital may also be initiating the operations-based approach. And when any operational
professional tries to get a new job it is significant to find traditional operations roles in short
supply, and allow them to have both philosophical knowledge for moral and scientific thinking
necessarily are not sufficient towards understanding of operational and human existence. It is
observed that the hospital have initiated implementation of certain set of strategies in the
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profitable management and operations of manufacturing that has yielded towards maximization
of input. Over the last five years, the hospital examined the day to day patient’s experience and
data sheets from start to finish, in making changes towards profit and benefits. It fosters solutions
in every field from the management of surgical supplies, equipment assertion, scheduling of
MRIs, blood reports, report inputs to the flow of patients and their necessities.
Conclusion:
London Bridge Hospital is creating one overall performance management system that works
significantly with the operation and the team management structure. The organization believe in
the safe, responsive, caring, well-led and effective progression of work so that the patients can
able to get a proper management style including the appropriate inspection procedure for the
future development of entire working progression. The care report for the patient on the behalf
on the London Bridge Hospital is quite good and they are taking help from the international
physician so that the patients can able to get the perfect service coordination. The organization
has generated proper trust factor for the patients so that each authority can able to work for the
future battement of thing. With the consideration of possible service perfection and the exclusive
management structure cater help for the ach and every criteria. The hospital management will
proceed with the better environment that consists of customers, supplies, competitors, regulation,
economy and technology. The input system will also work there like capital, different facilities,
knowledge and the labor management in order to cater services for the customers.
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