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Applying Performance Improvement Tools

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Geriatric nursing involves caring for and helping the aging and elderly individuals. The unit trains how to perform traditional nursing obligations in addition to special training that assist the students in having a better understanding of the special needs of most elderly people (Spath, 2009). Some of the strategies and interventions tried in the geriatric nursing unit include planning. Nursing care plan incorporates some specific interventions in nursing assisting on how to treat specific nursing problems in areas such as the impaired capacity for personal care and even risks for injuries due to accidents as a result of general weakness and grief unrelated.

Managing pain in the critically ill is also tried in the unit involving sedation in the intensive care unit. This involves patient tolerance for medical and even ventilation as well assessment of patient pain and proper administration of ideal pharmacologic sedation (Rundall, Martelli, Arroyo McCurdy, 2007). In this strategy use of various behavioral scales helps in quantifying pain and discomfort of the ill. Nursing care and education for the patient with different sickness is also tried in the geriatric nursing unit. This strategy is tried to enhance the proper care of the patients. Other strategies tried to include posting of data on pain management satisfaction, patient teaching on pain management and meeting with staffs to plan and strategize on the use of IHI rapid cycle model.

The nursing strategies were effective in creating change in my nursing unit because the strategies incorporated various skills and techniques on caring for geriatric as it also helped in effective ways of managing pain in elderly patients. The run chart has a predictive ability because the continuous practice of nursing strategies will lead to an increase in the number of patients satisfaction. The leadership can be confident that the trend will continue if all the nursing strategies on performance improvement tools are practiced to the latter.

In the scenario described collecting data from the patients was done correctly because it was the first-hand information and the correct information. To improve the quality of the process, the number of geriatric medical nursing units should be increased (Tools and Strategies for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety - Patient Safety and Quality - NCBI Bookshelf,). Some of the performance improvement tools include implantation of systematic changes, measuring and recording outcomes, setting of goals and making subsequent improvements that are appropriate. The tools contributed to the outcome by providing the necessary information that led to appropriate subsequent improvement.

In conclusion, performance tools should be applied in the geriatric medical nursing unit in the hospitals because this will increase the satisfaction of the patient.

References

Spath, P. (2009).Introduction to healthcare quality management(Vol. 2). Chicago Health Administration Press.

Rundall, T. G., Martelli, P. F., Arroyo, L., McCurdy, R. (2007). The Informed Decisions Toolbox Tools for Knowledge Transfer and Performance Improvement/Practitioner Application.Journal of Healthcare Management,52(5), 325.

Tools and Strategies for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety - Patient Safety and Quality - NCBI Bookshelf. (n.d.). Retrieved from https//www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK2682/

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