Healthcare Administration

Healthcare Administration: Legal

Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you:

  1. Analyze how standardizing procedures and documenting steps can improve outcomes when performing a complex procedure. Review the peer-reviewed journal article, The Next Wave of Hospital Innovation to Make Patients Safer. Articulate your position as the top administrator concerned about the importance of professional conduct and negligence in SCIP quality guidelines.
  2. High Reliability Organizing emphasizes the varying actions that can affect patient safety given that standardized systems ignore the fact that each patient is different. Ascertain the major ramifications when the health care team “fails to rescue” the patient. Identify what hospital policies should be in place and identify previous case laws.
  3. Analyze the four (4) elements required of a plaintiff to prove medical negligence.
  4. Discuss the overarching duties of the health care governing board in mitigating the effects of medical non-compliance as they apply to the rules of practice set forth in the We Care Hospital governing board’s manifesto.
  5. Use at least five (5) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar websites do not quality as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

  • Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
  • Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

Answer preview

Quality in health services is a critical issue in many nations. Research has shown that the number of deaths resulting from errors can reduce significantly with the adoption of the right strategies. As a result, hospitals, organizations, and governments have focused their attention on ensuring that patients get the best treatment possible. Patient safety is now a primary goal for many healthcare providers and has resulted in a decrease in incidences of error, negligence, and non-compliance.

Analysis of How Standardizing Procedures and Documenting Steps Can Improve Outcomes When Performing a Complicated Procedure

Establishing a series of steps that a physician must follow when performing surgical operations has numerous advantages. First, it reduces patient mortality after surgery. According to Ghaferi, Myers, Sutcliffe & Pronovost (2016), 3%-5% of patients…

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