Nursing Leadership: Committee Meeting Reflection, University Name

This report reflects on a committee meeting within a healthcare organization, focusing on a discussion regarding a sudden increase in hospital infections. The report details the roles and interactions of various committee members, including the governing board chair, hospital CEO, Vice President of Medical Affairs, Metron, Manager of Quality Assurance, Medical Director/Superintendent, and the Budget/Finance Audit Committee. The meeting addressed the need for improved infection control, emphasizing adherence to international guidelines, training for novice nurses, and antimicrobial stewardship. The report highlights the importance of shared governance models and staff participation in decision-making to support effective clinical governance and improve patient outcomes. The meeting's outcomes included a proposed budget for training and cleaning programs, and a shared understanding of the need for effective clinical governance to support infection control improvements.

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Name of the Student
Name of the university
Author’s note

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Committee meeting in a health care organisation
In this paper, I will reflect on a committee meeting of the health care organisation, where
I have observed the interaction that took place between the committee members and will provide
an account of the functions of the committee and roles of the committee members who were
present at that time. The meeting was in relation to the sudden upsurge of infections within the
hospital premises.
The different members that were present in the committee meeting are as follows:-
Governing board
 The board chair – One of the primary duty served by the board chair is to guide the entire
work of the board members.
 Hospital CEO- The CEO of the hospital is the highest ranking official who approved and
supervised the work of the board of trustees.
 Vice president of medical affairs-The vice president of the medical affair reported directly to
CEO of the hospital. In this case the VPMA gave a report of the loss of productivity or
number if readmissions, or excess resources used due to infection. The report contained an
annual record of the number and type of infection occurred throughout the year.
 Metron – The Metron gave a report on the current number of breaches and misses that
occurred in the nursing department. She also gave a justification as how and why the
breaches have taken place and also gave a feedback as how can these breaches be rectified.
 Manager of quality assurance- It is the role and the goals of the management to set goals and
the budgets set by the departments. The manager put forward of a briefing letter to the CEO

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about the recent data of adverse events currently taking place inside the hospital. It also
proposed some evidence based ideas on how the infection control can be established.
 The Medical director/ Superintendent- A medical superintendent is the one to ensure that the
health care facility operates smoothly (Amirabadi Zadeh et al., 2015). The superintendent
emphasised upon the fact that the organisation should adhere to the international guidelines
of infection control in a hospital. He also put forward a set of rules necessary to be
introduced in the health care facility. Emphasis was given to train the novice nurses about
infection control protocol, emphasis was given on antimicrobial stewardship.
 Budget/ finance audit committee- The budget committee finally placed the probable budget
for putting up training classes and for a rigorous cleaning program that will be followed from
the next month.
One of the perks of the meeting was that there was a sharing of the opinions and ideas for
supporting infection control. It was a unanimous understanding of the team members that an
effective clinical governance is necessary to support any kind of improvements in infection
control (Halton, et al., 2017). A shared governance model consists of both the committees and
council (Caldicott, 2013). A shared governance is incorporated by sharing of information,
networking and communication for the nurses (Barbazza & Tello, 2014). The meeting
successfully focussed on the audits and performance feedback. Participation in this meeting
made me believe that functioning of a hospital depends upon the staff participation in health care
decisions making

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