Quality improvement program has been a beneficial step in healthcare improvement of nursing processes
Executive Summary
During the last decade, multiple comorbidity issues among the elderly at nursing homes or health institutions have been brought about by falls to the elderly. Geriatrics have issues like muscular dystrophy and Parkinsonism, which increases the risk of falls. Mitigation of this problem, there arises a need to improve working places, living places, or generally places where adults spend most of their time. Improvement in health care sectors is necessary to make patients care better and effective. The introduction of a device that will alert a caregiver once the patient needs them is a significant step forward in the nursing profession. From the statistical side of view, falls among the elders are very expensive. Close to $50 billion is send on efforts to curb non-fatal fall injury. Various initiatives are underway to ensure that even if falling can’t be entirely prevented. Quick actions can be done to ensure that adverse complications after fall have been prevented. The caretakers of the elderly such as nursing homes and residents of other populations should be keen on ensuring that debilitating complications brought about by falls are prevented or treated immediately (White Butterworth & Wells, 2017). Data collection, analysis, and implementation will be made easier and more beneficial to the patient and the future of nursing care.
The target population for the services is patients who require a lot of monitoring and whose treatment and the healing process can be improved through the correction of mistakes done by caregivers. The nurses and other health care professionals are also part of the target population as they are the ones who play a significant role in the provision of quality care and collection of relevant data to make the evidenced-based change a success (White Butterworth & Wells, 2017). Nurses also will be among the beneficially of sophisticated technology introduction in nursing care.
Quality improvement program has been a beneficial step in healthcare improvement of nursing processes. This program has been designated to monitor, analyze, and improve the quality of care using the invention of electronic health monitor. This program has been an essential improvement of safety in crucial areas of the hospital setting. It improves quality outcomes for the patients. It improves the efficiency of the nursing staff to minimize the risk of falls in old patients. The process of failure is low, thus reduces waste. The project aims to make improvements in maintaining safety, effectiveness, access, and patient-centered. This program has been beneficial as it has increased the likelihood of attaining desired health outcomes consistent with current professional current knowledge. To support the improvement of care and to prevent incurring high costs of treating complications due to falling accidents, improvements have been made. A good example is the invention of voice-activated call light, which is used by the elderly with muscular dystrophy and Parkinsonism to alert the nurses when they require nursing care (Bastable, 2017). Tracking of patient’s improvement will be quite easy, thus facilitating evidence-based change.
Working as a team makes nursing easy and, thus, a collaborative discipline. It improves experience and satisfaction when improving the patient’s experience and satisfaction. Hardin Kilian & Spykerman (2017).notes that this reduces the cost incurred for not applying for quality improvement programs in healthcare. Interprofessional collaboration enables different members of a professional to work together as a team in conjunction with other members of other disciplines in health care workers in the wholesome provision of care. For instance, a patient with a better understanding of the physical therapy role to a patient may help a physician to communicate with a patient. This leads to better health. Interprofessional collaboration enables multiple health care workers to work together with families, caregivers, and communities. This ensures that care is provided in all perspectives. Thus, the delivered care is of the highest quality.
The cost of developing decisive health with voice-activated curtain light in a health center is approximately 25000. This has not included software engineering planning and the cost incurred in training the nurses on how to utilize the device. The device could be shared among several nurses in a nursing station or those allocated in a single ward. In comparison with the amount incurred in treating the elderly persons suffering complications following a fall, this is less than a quarter the amount (Bastable, 2017). Therefore, installing the device is not only more economical but also beneficial to the patient.
The quality improvement initiative is evaluated to ensure its cost is directly proportional to the improvement of quality nursing care and monitoring of patients, especially those in need of close supervision. North Norris & Chu (2017) acknowledges that successful use of sophisticated technology in nursing and emergency services to the patient. This will allow nurses and caregivers to provide apt care and attention to the patient. The need for the nurses to keep checking in every room with the slightest alarm will be minimized. Overall, quality care improvement is noted, and decision making in case of emergency will improve. With these improvements, the image of nursing will change; thus, patients will opt to get care from the health center due to improved health services.
References
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Bastable, S. B. (2017). Nurse as educator: Principles of teaching and learning for nursing practice. Jones & Bartlett Learning.
Hardin, L., Kilian, A., & Spykerman, K. (2017). Competing for health care systems and complex patients: An inter-professional collaboration to improve outcomes and reduce health care costs. Journal of Interprofessional Education & Practice, 7, 5-10.
North, R., Norris, J., & Chu, F. (2017). U.S. Patent No. 9,639,682. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.