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Healthcare quality concepts

Healthcare quality concepts

tittle: Healthcare quality concepts – Hospital/Healthcare Acquired Infections
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Healthcare quality concepts – Hospital/Healthcare Acquired Infections

 

Write a 2-page APA styled paper on the following:

Discuss Hospital Acquired Infections (HAI).

 

How can HAI be measured? E.g. rates

 

What is the standard for acceptable levels of HAI? E.g. Less than X number of cases per year.

 

 

In the context of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Six Quality Dimensions, discuss how reducing HAI delivers higher quality healthcare as follows:

 

1) Patient safety: Care should be as safe for patients in healthcare facilities as in their homes. 

2) Effective – Care should apply science and, evidence based medical practices and standards

3) Efficient – Care should be cost-effective, and waste should be removed from the system.

4) Timely – Patients should experience no waits or delays when receiving care and service.

5) Patient Centered – The system of care should revolve around the patient, respect patient preferences, and put the patient in control.

6) Equitable – Unequal treatment should be a fact of the past; disparities should be eradicated.

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PhysicianProfiling and quality report cards

PhysicianProfiling and quality report cards

Tittle: Physician Profiling and quality report cards
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Select number of pages: 2
Question Description:

Physician Profiling and quality report cards

 

Write a 2 paged APA style essay on:

 

Analyze Physician Practice Profiling (data on physician practice patterns, utilization of services, decision making and outcomes of care) as it pertains to provider healthcare quality performance. 

 

Identify three strategies for improving physician quality practice rankings on physician profiling and quality report cards. Be sure to justify your recommendations.

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Choose Topic: Health and Medical

Choose Topic: Health and Medical

uestion Description: Translational Research Graphic Organizer Template

Data Collection

Choose Topic: Health and Medical
Select number of pages: 2
Question Description: Use the “Translational Research Graphic Organizer Template” to compare three types of translational research with traditional (qualitative or quantitative) research. Make sure to include methodology, goals, and data collection in your organizer.

You are required to cite three to five sources to complete this assignment. Sources must be published within the last 5 years and appropriate for the assignment criteria and nursing content.

While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines Observations (Similarities/Differences)

Methodology

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week 3 leadership

week 3 leadership

Read Chapter 4

1-which of the following behaviors may be (1) ethical but illegal, (2) legal but unethical, (3) illegal and unethical, and (4) legal and ethical.

A. Working in a clinic that performs abortions

b. Respecting the wishes of a client suffering from ALS that he be permitted to die with dignity and not placed on “breathing machines”

c. Respecting the health surrogate’s wishes regarding termination of life support of her friend

d. Observing a coworker take out two tablets of oxycodone as ordered for pain management for his patient but keeping one for himself, administering only one tablet to the patient.

2-differentiate among the following: deontological theories, utilitarianism, and principlism.

3-what do you think about health-care professionals disclosing information to clients about a poor prognosis, even though the information may cause severe distress.

4-What do they think about health-care professionals disclosing information to clients against family wishes?

5. You see a colleague use another nurse’s password to access the medication administration system and take out a narcotic. What would you do?

6.Your colleague’s child fell and was brought to the emergency department. She comes back up to the unit and tells you that they cleaned and debrided the wound, and she needs to change the dressings twice a day using a wet to dry method. You see her go into the supply system and remove the dressings and saline using a patient’s identification number. What would you do?

7. You are caring for a patient who has a terminal disease. He asks you if he is dying. Would you tell him? If yes, how? If no, what might you say? .

8-You are administering hydromorphone to a patient. The patient asks you what you are administering. Would you tell the patient about the medication?

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Question Description: Assignment: Evidence-Based Project

Question Description: Assignment: Evidence-Based Project

Tittle: Evidence-Based Project
Choose Topic: Health and Medical
Select number of pages: 4
Question Description: Assignment: Evidence-Based Project

Is there a difference between “common practice” and “best practice”?
When you first went to work for your current organization, experienced colleagues may have shared with you details about processes and procedures. Perhaps you even attended an orientation session to brief you on these matters. As a “rookie,” you likely kept the nature of your questions to those with answers that would best help you perform your new role.
Over time and with experience, perhaps you recognized aspects of these processes and procedures that you wanted to question further. This is the realm of clinical inquiry.
Clinical inquiry is the practice of asking questions about clinical practice. To continuously improve patient care, all nurses should consistently use clinical inquiry to question why they are doing something the way they are doing it. Do they know why it is done this way, or is it just because we have always done it this way? Is it a common practice or a best practice?
In this Assignment, you will identify clinical areas of interest and inquiry and practice searching for research in support of maintaining or changing these practices. You will also analyze this research to compare research methodologies employed.

To Prepare:
• Review the Resources and identify a clinical issue of interest that can form the basis of a clinical inquiry.
• Based on the clinical issue of interest and using keywords related to the clinical issue of interest, search at least four different databases in the Walden Library to identify at least four relevant peer-reviewed articles related to your clinical issue of interest. You should not be using systematic reviews for this assignment, select original research articles.
• Review the results of your peer-reviewed research and reflect on the process of using an unfiltered database to search for peer-reviewed research.
• Reflect on the types of research methodologies contained in the four relevant peer-reviewed articles you selected.

Part 1: An Introduction to Clinical Inquiry
Create a 4- to 5-slide PowerPoint presentation in which you do the following:
• Identify and briefly describe your chosen clinical issue of interest. This clinical issue will remain the same for the entire course and will be the basis for the development of your PICOT question
• Describe how you used keywords to search on your chosen clinical issue of interest.
• Identify the four research databases that you used to conduct your search for the peer-reviewed articles you selected.
• Provide APA citations of the four peer-reviewed articles you selected.

Part 2: Identifying Research Methodologies
After reading each of the four peer-reviewed articles you selected, use the Matrix Worksheet template to analyze the methodologies applied in each of the four peer-reviewed articles. Your analysis should include the following:
• The full citation of each peer-reviewed article in APA format.
• A brief (1-paragraph) statement explaining why you chose this peer-reviewed article and/or how it relates to your clinical issue of interest, including a brief explanation of the ethics of research related to your clinical issue of interest.
• A brief (1-2 paragraph) description of the aims of the research of each peer-reviewed article.
• A brief (1-2 paragraph) description of the research methodology used. Be sure to identify if the methodology used was qualitative, quantitative, or a mixed-methods approach. Be specific.
• A brief (1- to 2-paragraph) description of the strengths of each of the research methodologies used, including reliability and validity of how the methodology was applied in each of the peer-reviewed articles you selected.
Submit Part 1 and Part 2 of your Evidence-Based Project.
Note: Part 1 is a 4-5 slide PowerPoint and Part 2 is the Matrix. Be sure to attach both of your documents (Part 1 and Part 2)

Please see attachment for the worksheet.

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