RECOMMENDATIONS FOR IMPROVEMENT FOR HEALTHCARE

Recommendations for Improvement for Healthcare

Recommendations for Improvement for Healthcare

The approach of Clinical Risk Management

Clinical Risk Management (CRM) is an approach to improving the quality and safe delivery of health care. The CRM program aims to identify clinical 'near misses,' incidents, adverse and sentinel events through the incident reporting and the adverse event screening of medical records of patients who have died or had a an unplanned transfer to the Intensive Care Unit (Al-Assaf and Schmele 2000).

Health Care Quality

Quality of care plays an important role in assuring the standards of nursing performance. By providing specific performance requirements, standards of nursing performance can improve and provide quality of nursing care in health care settings (Foggin 2002). Quality care is one of the most significant nursing standards of modern time. This particular standard must be implemented by nurse's everyday. One of the main concerns in nursing practice today, is quality of care in the health care setting (iom.edu). The reports focused on the need to recognize, develop, evaluate, and ensure the quality of health care in the United States (nursing world.org). Both the ANA and IMQI represent a systematic effort to advance health care quality and patient safety concerns. Many other institutions have felt the need for further disciplinary actions to improve quality of care in healthcare settings.

Organizations such as the American Heart Association and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality have also recommended that the healthcare system launch a systemic proposal to increase the quality of care. The QCOR IWG is a multidisciplinary group committed to making a significant contribution to improving patient outcomes and healthcare quality. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality developed a National Healthcare Quality Report to facilitate the needs of patients around the United States. By doing so, they are raising awareness to ...