Healthcare quality

Introduccion Every day the patients interact with managers and leaders and see how they manage their employees or contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the unit and the institution without the quality of service offered to patients and their family is affected. It is said that leaders are not born, but made, can differ from this thought because I believe that people are born with individual characteristics and unique personality. The knowledge and skills acquired such as methods of…

provide better health care quality and improvements in patient satisfaction. Patients always have the right to choose, ask, and complain about the services they receive. Patients’ views are important for any business. Regarding health care, patients want the highest of quality care, right to receive the best services, and it is the organizations responsibility to its consumers to ensure the highest quality of care is delivered and solve any problem may occur. In the quality improvement process…

Leadership vs. Management Leadership comprises scientific and artistic fundamentals characterized by six imperative qualities. The scientific qualities of leadership focus on the process and tasks associated with evaluating, planning, decision making, and training. “The artistry of leadership is embodied in processes and tasks associated with relationship building, communicating, persuading, coaching, and evaluating or establishing context (G. R. Ledlow, M. N. Coppola, p. 11).” Management is…

Healthcare is changing and with these changes come challenges regarding the best way to allocate funding to provide high quality healthcare and improve patient outcomes, while containing costs. Therefore, it 's imperative that we as nurses speak up and work together to advocate for ourselves and our patients in an effort to change healthcare policy and improve patient care. An advocate is defined "as one that pleads, defends, or supports a cause or interest of another and advocacy is the…

While taking the Cross-Cultural Healthcare Quality Quiz there were several new concepts I learned. I also found some of the questions and rationale interesting. Three new things I learned: (1) The question regarding “a conscientious healthcare provider cannot eliminate prejudices or assumptions”. I personally find the rational that most of us harbor assumptions about patients simply untrue. I think a true professional looks at a patient as a human being in need of assistance. I personally…

The National Health Service (NHS) has to provide a dynamic and responsive health care system with a workforce that can cope with frequent organizational change (Oliver, 2006). High-quality leadership is critical to the organization's success. Primarily it is important that an effective leader is one who is able to motivate and apply the intellectual resources available within a company to the attainment of set goals, which may be the essential in consistently meeting the needs of customers…

Evidence-based practice (EBP) amplifies the quality of patient care while advancing patient outcomes (Estrada, 2009). The healthcare workforce nurses has the obligation to ensure that patient receive quality superlative care whilst utilizing evidence-based practice (Estrada, 2009). Indeed, there are arrays of barriers related to the embracement of EPB in the organization’s, which makes it impossible to the healthcare…

relative lack of real-time access to current, comprehensive patient medical information that is easily retrievable for patients, healthcare providers, and healthcare payers. To impact the quality of US healthcare, patient information must be captured, updated, and shared with all stakeholders in a timely and effective manner to not only ensure universal access to quality data, but also to extend essential information to key clinical decision makers. For EBM to be successful, developers must…

organizations focus on quality improvements and meeting the patient’s expectations. Defining quality improvement with the nurses, providers, patients, and regulatory agencies, and observing the concepts of Quality Improvement along with the viewpoints of the patients, shareholders, and the clinician. Use helpful tools and resources to set up plans and strategies that affect the quality improvement of the organization, and provide a better services for patients. The primary purpose of quality…

There have been many leaders throughout history. People who fought battles, presidents, or something just as small as being head of a building or group. Leaders can be anyone who carries qualities that qualifies them to be successful and allows people to respect them. A leader must be someone who is willing to take on any task that is handed to them, and when they get that task, to work as hard as they can to complete it. There can be more than one leader throughout the world, but when choosing…