Healthcare Improvement
Essays

Implementing a Quality Improvement Plan at the University of Kansas Center for Advanced Heart Care

The benefits of the SBAR are apparent to the nursing staff in the Labor, Deliver, Recovery, and Postpartum Unit of St. Johns Hospital Birth Center. All nursing staff receives training in SBAR and it has been implemented…

One of the most important operatives in healthcare reform is value-based purchasing. This is pressuring hospitals to improve and report along with encouraging consumers to purchase healthcare based on outcomes of quality.

ICU Delirium -- Evidence Review and Synthesis

Nearly all healthcare organizations today are aware of the Quality Improvement (QI) movement and seek to actively instill their businesses with such elements. In fact, the past few decades have shown the QI movement to be the main approach for healthcare organizations to measure performance and engage in lasting changes (Colton, 2000). The foundations of QI reside with its origins which come from multiple arenas: "in systems engineering, as a way of defining production processes; in quantitative analysis, as a methodological approach for collecting and analyzing data; and in organizational behavior, as a way of understanding how QI fits with an organization's structure and management philosophy" (Colton, 2000).

The topic for this particular paper revolves around nursing management business. The primary purpose of the paper was to highlight the different responsibilities that the nurses, in particularly the Chief Nurse, takes on and how the absence of a Chief Nurse can have dire effects on the modern healthcare organizations.

An estimated 50,000 people could be dying each year in the United States from catheter- associated nosocomial infections. The Institute of Healthcare Improvement has established five best practice guidelines for reducing the prevalence of catheter-related bloodstream infections, including simple and inexpensive precautions such as hand hygiene, barrier precautions, and antiseptic use. This essay examines the recommendations of this Institute, together with those of the CDC.

Team D. agreed to focus on the problem of central line associated blood stream infections (CLABSI). Our target / PICO question is: Is there decreased incidence of CLABSI when using an antimicrobial dressing such as…

The objective of this work is to examine the importance of encouraging patients to be actively involved in their own health care as a method of ensuring a safety strategy for the patient.

Lean thinking has evolved from well-known business management disciplines such as the Toyota Production System (TPS), Just-in-Time (JIT) and Kaizen. The core principles of lean are fundamentally the same as these other…