Question

think about the clinical environment where you work or one in which you previously worked.

Identify opportunities for waste reduction. Consider the following:

Setting: administrative, operational, clinical

Efficiency

Value to patient

Suggest process changes to improve the situation.

Write a 175-word communication to frontline staff and nurse leaders explaining your findings as speaker notes across the slides.

Develop a 7- to 10-slide presentation for your department.

Answer 1

-- -Opportunities for waste reduction identified from clinical environment

waste is the amount of time that prevent us from giving quality patient care such as ;

- Spending more time for appointments

- including unnecessary steps for registration process

- More time on paper works

- unnecessary equipment’s , supplies and resources .

- improper coordination

Types of waste

There are 3 types of waste such as ;

1 .Administrative waste : which means excess administrative overhead .

2 .Operational waste : which means insufficient and unnecessary use of resources

3 .Clinical waste : which is created by production of low value production

solutions

inorder to reduce waste first we need to understand the source of problem. There are 2 types of inefficiencies;

1 . Productive inefficiency: it denotes waste in the form of excess cost

2 . Allocative inefficiency: it produce wrong outputs

Steps to improve

- Nursing department leaders need to improve efficiency of their staffs shift change tasks inorder to improve patient safety measures, reduce medication errors, and improve quality care.

-Improve patient and family satisfaction about communication and coordination of patient care

-Encourage right care in right settings so as to reduce losses

-Remove unnecessary equipment’s , supplies and resources

-keep the area clean and in a systematic order

-provide best patient care in shortest time period without waste of resources

-The entire care of patient should be analysed and re-examined

- All staff should think about improving value of patients and reducing waste .

- stop unnecessary surgeries and procedures

- Develop advanced role of staff for management of chronic patient

- Avoid repeated diagnostic tests .