The Role of the Leader in Evaluating Data to Improve Quality and Safety



The Role of the Leader in Evaluating Data to Improve Quality and Safety

Introduction

Patient safety and quality health care is one of the major concerns for hospitals all over the world. Medical wards, clinics and hospitals, for that matter, tend to provide the best they can in meeting the set quality standards. In ensuring that the quality standards are met, the role of a leader is of immense importance. Teaching and evaluating the safety guidance and procedures for the medical staff ensures that the patient's safety is a top priority for the medical institutes.

Nurses are in a position, in the middle of the health care and the patient, which provides a platform dealing with quality related care issues. They are in a position for gaining access to the personal feedback of the patients, as patients may feel free to share their views with the nurses, as they speak with them with more confidence and trust. Thus the nurses are in a position to provide their valuable feedback for developing strategies to improve the patient care. In our paper we will be discussing about the role a leader plays when it comes to evaluating the data, with a core purpose of improving safety and quality.

Discussion

Since 1999 the Institute of Medicine has distributed some reports delineating the quality and security issues that contrarily influence the healthcare framework. To take out these issues healthcare conglomerations must show more stupendous steadiness in catching information that underpins a more exact estimation of healthcare quality, for example confirming how unfavorable occasions (i.e., wounds brought about by medical administration, not the underlying illness) truly happen in hospitals.

Existing data from authoritative, research center, clinical registry, and electronic health record (EHR) frameworks can furnish the indispensible information to enhance patient wellbeing and quality. Viable practices expedite the conglomeration of data from numerous sources to empower the catch of data once so it could be repurposed commonly. The development of IT and electronic documentation is enhancing the catch and nature of healthcare data, accelerating more secure and more dependable care conveyance frameworks, (CMMS,2010). Keeping in mind the end goal to precede progressions in these zones, medical organizations must expedite the stream of information around distinctive gatherings, (PCMH, 2010).

Furthermore, leveraging electronic data from various sources and joining it into a unified storehouse can assist in enhancing the quality and consistency of patient care conveyance. A nurse is obliged to have some credits and aptitudes to complete their regular jobs; they should show empathy, sympathy, amazing communication abilities both verbal and non-verbal. In a few cases nurses are likewise needed to come to be advocators for patients who are not ready to convey for themselves. A nurse is likewise needed to be non-preference and comprehend and affirm different societies and convictions, for instance a few religions don't put stock in blood transfusions, as a nurse it is imperative not to judge when confronted with this quandary, (AHIMA, ...