Question

Discuss quality improvement in your current practice area by answering and providing rationale for the following questions. The IOM’s six aims of quality improvement, rules that guide improvement, and quality management principles should guide your answer.

1. Is the quality of patient care that you have experienced in your clinical setting always as high as you believe it should be?
2. Which factors affect the quality of patient care?
3. Which factors seem most important to patients and their fami­lies?
4. Which of these factors can you control as an individual nurse?
5. Which of these fac­tors could be controlled through a team effort that involves various health care professionals and administrators?

Answer 1

ou Yes, the quality of patient care is high which I have experienced in my clinical setting where we promole -patient's care with improving quality of We;& peonding proper resources to patient 022 factors that affect quality of patient Care are (1) Lack of Resources u Personnel problems liu Improper maintain ance le lack of incident review procedures Tus Lack of hospital information system i Absent of patient satisfaction survey vi Lack of nursing care records.

03) tactors most important to patient and family are spiritual care, emotional support, participation, notification & Consultation factors that cas a individual nurse can controll are physiological, safety Love I Belonging Esteem, Self actualization ete. 04) LOUCULLE ELLILLON