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Nursing: Management and Leaderships
Every good healthcare institution has a strategic plan of goals and methods for reaching those goals. Because it is a business, a healthcare institution has some goals and methods that can be found in other kinds of businesses. Because it is a provider of special services, a healthcare institution has special goals and methods that are unique to healthcare. At a minimum, a healthcare institution's strategic plan has goals and methods regarding patient safety, data management and informatics, internal and external marketing, and hazard preparedness. Goals and methods in these categories can help a healthcare institution start with and constantly improve its strategy for business and healthcare success.
Body: Strategic Plan of an Institution
An institution's strategic plan is a carefully developed description of its long-term goals and its plan of action for reaching those goals. Major institutions in all walks of life develop strategic plans for their success. Healthcare institutions are businesses and therefore have some goals and action plans that are very similar to other institutions; however, healthcare institutions also provide specialized services with trained staff and have specialized needs; therefore, healthcare institutions also have unique goals and plans of action in their strategic plans
a. Patient Safety Goals
One of a healthcare institution's primary purposes is the care of its patients. While a healthcare institution is caring for a patient, accidents and medical errors can lead to a patient's harm. Therefore, perfect patient safety, for which a healthcare institution strives by requiring reporting, analyzing and ultimately preventing accidents and medical errors (Harrison, 2010, p. 56), must be one of the long-term goals of a healthcare institution's strategic plan (Harrison, 2010, p. 26). No matter how safe patients are, a healthcare institution constantly strives to achieve the ideal situation in which 100% of the patients are 100% safe. By focusing on that...
56). In fact, patient safety is such an important part of a healthcare institution's strategic plan that healthcare institutions sometimes develop many detailed systems for safeguarding patients, depending on the situation (Harrison, 2010, p. 76).
In addition to idealistic considerations for patient safety, healthcare institutions have patient safety as a goal for practical business reasons. The U.S. Department of Health and state health agencies govern some of a healthcare institution's licenses and certifications and they are focused on patient safety; therefore, in order to keep vital operating licenses, a healthcare institution must have well-developed and accepted goals and action plans for patient safety (Harrison, 2010, p. 84). Still another practical reason for striving for the ideal of patient safety is the costs associated with breaches in patient safety, which can include fines by agencies and judgments in malpractice suits (Harrison, 2010, p. 144). For several idealist and practical reasons, patient safety must be a goal in every healthcare institution's strategic plan.
b. Data Management and Informatics
Data management is the collection, analysis and use of data as a valuable resource (Harrison, 2010, pp. 107-8). Informatics is the multi-disciplinary use of healthcare, computer science, communications, hard science and social science in order to analyze and constantly improve all the disciplines (Gordon, 2014, p. 23). Healthcare institutions use data management and informatics to obtain, store, retrieve and use information as effectively as possible (Gordon, 2014, p. 23). This allows them to prepare strategic plans, implement the plans and continually improve the plans and performance of the healthcare institution. Due to the constantly evolving scientific, medical, computer, communications and social science knowledge and equipment, a healthcare institution must ensure that it is constantly aware of the…
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