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Safe Environment -- Patient Outcomes
What are the best practices that nurses and nursing leaders can implement to assure safe working conditions and high quality patient care? This paper delves into those issues using the available literature -- scholarly articles -- as guiding references to reach an understanding of how to assure safe working conditions for nurses and patients.
Required time and staffing for safe and effective patient care
According to author Kathy Malloch, the task of creating safe practices for nursing staff "…continues to be illusive for nurse leaders" (Malloch, 2015). The problem is that discovering the amount of time needed in order for a nurse to provide proper patient care is still a work in progress; measuring that needed time is not in the "mature stage" yet, according to Malloch. As of the publishing of this article in Nursing Economics (2015), there was as yet no "gold standard patient classification system" (PCS) in existence.
But Malloch offers a look at what she considers the four obstacles to achieving that "gold standard" patient classification system; this would be a system that can help nurses improve the delivery of quality health care in a safe environment. The first obstacle Malloch sees relates to the "quantification...
However these hurdles can be overcome through the use of digital patient care needs; automated systems make the "complexity of healthcare systems more manageable" (Malloch). It appears to be just a matter of hospitals and clinics investing in these technologies -- then manual documentation will be a thing of the past.
The second obstacle that Malloch sees is that traditional motion and time measurements are limited in their scope and not as accurate as they should be. Too many strategies in the past have focused on the simple economics of "…matching demand with supply" and have given short shrift to the "multifaceted nature of patient care" (Malloch). Malloch's third obstacle is what she calls "conceptual blurring"; for example patient care needs and the actual intervention by the nurse are sometimes considered "one concept" rather than the two "distinct concepts" that are actually involved. Checking for hypertension is the issue and measuring the blood pressure is the intervention; hence, these are two concepts, not one, as some measurements would view this procedure.
And the fourth obstacle to a patient classification system is the fact that "…much…
Works Cited
Hunter, B., Branson, M., and Davenport, D. (2010). Saving Costs, Saving Health Care
Providers' Backs, and Creating a Safe Patient Environment. Nursing Economics, 28(2).
Malloch, K. (2015). Measurement of Nursing's Complex Health Care Work: Evolution of the Science for Determining the Required Staffing for Safe and Effective Patient Care.
Nursing Economics, 33(1), 20-25.
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