Promoting Safety And Quality

Promoting Safety and Quality

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Promoting Safety and Quality

Question Number 1

The quality of healthcare has been positively impacted and raised the healthcare standards by providing best possible health-related initiatives and measures. The rules according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), executes the quality initiative for maintaining and assuring the health care quality, patient's safety, and the care outcomes through liability and free disclosure to the public (CMS, 2019). It also uses specific measures for improving the quality initiatives, including development of quality care, private and public reporting. The CMS also provides with the rewards based on superior performances by healthcare organizations and physicians. It also focuses on providing care facilities for more extended periods and hospital laboratories. Thus the quality of care is increased due to these standards set by the healthcare service centers, like CMS.

Question Number 2

The impact of nurse's role in providing the clinical outcome is crucially significant as all the other quality standards related to healthcare. Due to the nature of their job, nurses are the sole providers of patient care. Therefore the outcomes and patient satisfaction are reliant on the quality of care and concern they give (Porter, 2017). From reading and explaining the instructions related to medication and cure to carrying out bedside tasks, nurses are pivotal to the patient outcomes at infinite points in a healthcare career. The goals of nursing care to provide improved care to the patients and overall population, so for this purpose, a nurse is required to be well educated and trained in medicinal healthcare. Different courses and certified diplomas further enhance the qualification levels of the nurse, thus making them qualified registered nurses. The role of nurses is also central to the prevention or reduction of casualties and deaths.

Question Number 3

The challenges faced by nurses which ultimately influence the quality improvement in patient care are numerous and vital concerning providing excellent care at the hospitals. The adequate nursing staff in the scarceness of the resources is the biggest challenge faced by the nurses at many hospitals. Likewise, the tasks assigned to the nurses are of all levels, for instance reporting the medication receipt to the management level. They also face an increased demand for participating in quality improvement initiatives. The nurses are burdened with a high level of administrative tasks rendering to quality care (Bryant‐Lukosius et al., 2016). Moreover, they also confront with the old and bogus nursing styles which are traditional and not following the evolving hospital settings. This brings the significant changes in the maintenance of quality care as nurses are fatigued and face burnout by such rigorous challenges, although this also helps in boosting the quality care side by side.

Question Number 4

The organizations are achieving strategic agendas through the influential role of nurses in improving the quality care because nurses are pivotal in practicing and implementing these policies and standards in shaping the quality of healthcare. The procedures are permanently allocating the support for the delivery of quality healthcare. The nurses are expected to address the strategic agenda as part of their career education and training. The work done by nurses under influential policies and strategies it dramatically impacts the quality of human life and the public's access to good healthcare (Bryant‐Lukosius et al., 2016). This requires the determination for developing and acquiring skills and knowledge about the transformational changes in improving the healthcare quality. The nurse can also take part in formulating the policies by learning the policy-making strategies and voluntarily participate in the meeting related to policy formation. They should attain a level of acquiring the skills and knowledge pertaining to improve and maintain better healthcare practices.

References

Bryant‐Lukosius, D., Spichiger, E., Martin, J., Stoll, H., Kellerhals, S. D., Fliedner, M., ... & Schwendimann, R. (2016). Framework for evaluating the impact of advanced practice nursing roles. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 48(2), 201-209.

Porter, M. (2017). The strategy to transform health care and the role of outcomes. In Presentation at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Policy Forum, Paris, France, January (Vol. 16).

Quality of Care Center - Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. (2019). Cms.gov. Retrieved from https://www.cms.gov/Center/Special-Topic/Quality-of-Care-Center.html?redirect=/center/quality.asp