QUALITY HEALTH CARE

Quality Health Care Management

Abstract

Ensuring patient safety is a national priority, and everyone involved in the health care system has a role, including the patient. Patients can help make their health care experience safer by becoming active, involved and informed members of the health care team. This paper is based on the ethical and legal issues regarding the quality of medical care provided to people.

Table of Contents

Abstract2

Introduction4

Discussion4

Goals of Health Care Organization5

Unacceptable Health Care Actions5

How to Provide Better Care6

Ethical and Legal Issues in Healthcare Organizations7

Legal Issues8

Ethical Issues9

Quality Management of Health Care & Laws in US9

Conclusion10

References11

Quality Health Care Management

Introduction

Hospitals are the exclusive service providers in a community. They may be smaller in size, may have less scope of services, and restricted to the primary and secondary healthcare services which are in their array of technology and medical skill. These healthcare organizations encounter competitive environment in which not just other organizations but the medical staff suppliers also have interests (such as, owning surgery centers which results in decreasing market share of the healthcare institution). This paper will include the detailed discussions on the topic, like ethical and legal analysis of quality health care laws and regulations, what kind of federal regulations and policies have been generated in order to sustain a good quality health care system.

Discussion

Health care as a profession has a social mandate to contribute to the good of society through knowledge-based practice. Knowledge is built upon theories, and theories, together with their philosophical bases and disciplinary goals are the guiding frameworks for practice.

Health and illness are considered as a complex, dynamic interaction of subjective and objective state of mind of the human condition. It tries to provide support and assistance to a person in the current life situation (Alexander 2002).

While caring for the sick, health care considers a person as a person formed under the influence of certain social and cultural environment. This view of rights is a prerequisite for understanding of a person's feelings and needs in the spiritual, emotional and religious matters. Nursing care consists of the application of professional knowledge and experience of building trust relationships. It should be designed for the appropriate needs of the person needing care (Alexander 2002).

Goals of Health Care Organization

Primary goal of a healthcare institution is to provide the following basic facilities (Ramanath, 2010).

Accessibility is the efficient provision of health services in relation to organizational barriers, economic, cultural and emotional.

Coordination is the sum of the actions and efforts of primary care services.

Comprehensiveness is the ability to solve most health problems of the population served.

Unacceptable Health Care Actions

The range of activities performed by caregivers covers all the work necessary to meet the physical, psychological and social aspects of the person requiring support. In general, we tend to describe work related to the different categories of activities of daily living such as personal care, bathing, dressing, feeding, transfers, etc. and those instrumental activities of life daily living such as preparing meals, housekeeping, managing budgets, etc (Freidson ...