Health Assignment: Patient Safety, Infection Control, and Policies

This assignment addresses key aspects of healthcare, including patient safety, infection control, and governmental policies. It explores four essential processes in healthcare: team-based care, population-based care, measurement-based care, and evidence-based care. The assignment examines the National Patient Safety Goals, their interface with performance improvement cycles, and the roles of evidence-based medicine and clinical practice guidelines in standardizing patient care. It also discusses the benefits of collaboration among healthcare organizations, the importance of infection control, the differences between community-acquired and healthcare-acquired infections, and strategies for infection prevention. Furthermore, the assignment outlines the roles of governmental organizations and the impact of their policies on patient safety.

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Question one
These four processes include:
a. Team-based care which emphasizes of professionals who provide and implement team
plan in the healthcare organization.
b. Population-based care
It deals with the provision of services and health impacts to a given population of
patients.
c. Measurement-based care
It applies systematic, disease oriented and patient report to improve clinical decision
making.
d. The evidenced based care
It involves applying the measured data in decision making process while putting in place
the disease management approaches.
Question two
The aim of the National Patient Safety Goals is to ensure that the patients are safe wherever they
are at a particular time of treatment. Some of these goals include correct identification of
patients, effective work relationship among the caregivers, and improving safety by use of the
correct medication, reducing injuries related to clinical alarm systems among other goals.
However, there several ways in which these goals have interface with the performance
improvement cycle during patient care process in reference to Gosselin, Roberts & Dager,
(2019). The first thing is that these goals prevent several sources of harm in the many health

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care settings. Secondly they are cost effective in maintaining the state of patients in hospitals.
For instance, the surgical safeties which prevent patients from acquiring hospital acquired
diseases and any medical faults.
Question three
Some of the roles evidence-based medicine and clinical practice guidelines in standardizing
patient care include the following:
a. Providing real-time data that improves decision making. For instance, members of the
health staff can easily access information and other related knowledge due to the
improved technology in the health care according to Edwards, (2017).
b. Ensuring accountability, value and transparency- the patient and nurses are getting high
quality services at a low cost. There are a lot of commitment that improve transparency in
the health care.
c. Improving the quality of care- using the evidenced-based practice the doctors and
clinicians are at a better position in accessing the previous information and quality
practice agreed among the stakeholders.
Question four
Coming together of various partners and organization bring a lot of benefits to the health care
sector. The first thing is it leads to a greater credibility since the collaboration give room for
gather a lot of recommendations that brings credibility. Secondly, it makes health care service a
low financial burden since the organizations are able to reach many sponsors that can support the

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financial sector financially. The last benefit is that collaboration ensures several resources are
pulled together to ensure that the health services reaches many patients.
Question five
The reason why control of infection is important a health organization is because the health of an
individual is precious than any other thing. When there are infections, it puts the health of an
individual at a risk. Secondly, infections also put the health of the clinicians at risk meaning that
outbreak of infection leads to more damage in hospital. Stakeholders may end up spending a lot
of money according to Gandhi, Berwick, & Shojania, (2016).
Question six
The community acquired infections are infections that manifest faster and they are diagnosed
within a period of forty eight hours when the patient is admitted according to Singh, & Sittig,
(2016). The patient may not have a previous encounter with any healthcare. However, the
healthcare-acquired infections are diseases that the patient acquire while undergoing treatment in
a healthcare setting. For instance during surgical or medical conditions.
Question seven
The strategies applied when encountering infection mainly depend on the nurses. Some of these
approaches include washing hands often, applying the antibiotics in a sensible manner, getting
vaccination and staying away from crowd when an individual have developed signs of an
infection.
Question eight

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Some of the governmental organizations include Centre for medical and Medicaid, World Heal
Organization, Mandatory Health insurance among others. The role of the health facilities is to
ensure that the policies are implemented to the latter and report back to these organizations on
the process of the regulations.
Question nine
The goals include preventing patients from falling, reducing risk of health care-associated
disease and reducing the harm related to clinical alarm system. The impact of these policies is
that they ensure that the patients are safe wherever they are regardless of the conditions.

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References
Edwards, M. T. (2017). An organizational learning framework for patient safety. American
Journal of Medical Quality, 32(2), 148-155.
Gandhi, T. K., Berwick, D. M., & Shojania, K. G. (2016). Patient safety at the
crossroads. Jama, 315(17), 1829-1830.
Gosselin, R. C., Roberts, A. J., & Dager, W. E. (2019). The Joint Commission National Patient
Safety Goals (NPSG) directing anticoagulation safety in the United States. Annals of
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Singh, H., & Sittig, D. F. (2016). Measuring and improving patient safety through health
information technology: The Health IT Safety Framework. BMJ Qual Saf, 25(4), 226-
232.