Define the standards and parameters that health care professionals must have in order to work within their scope of practice.
- Uphold the competency expected as per the outline
- Seek the confidence and trust of the patients
- Practice their career with accountability, integrity, and honesty
- Enhance the privacy of information of all the patients and the patient’s family as allowed by the law
- They should use their expertise to inform the clients or employers of the negative and positive outcome of the management decisions in order to ensure a structure of an informed decision making
- Enhance cultural shifts that promote reporting of events that can lead to potential or actual injury to the patients.
- They should identify the cause of problems but not focus on the problem alone.
- They should seek the involvement of the management in the planning approach that promotes the quality of healthcare in order to ensure patient safety.
Describe the responsibility health care professionals must have in order to work within their scope of practice.
The healthcare provider should be responsive to the values and preferences of the users of healthcare services (Tang, Choy & Cheng, 2016).
They should devote their resources and time for the preparedness of an emergency.
The professionals should consider in collaboration and personally with their colleagues on the various ethical issues that they might face in the case where there are limited resources in order to implement strategies to manage the scarcity of the resources
All the healthcare providers should review the “Code of Ethics” in order to access what is available on the duty of care they owe the public. However, in the case where the duty of care is not included in as part of the ethics, they should include it (McGaffigan, Ullem & Gandhi, 2017).
Healthcare providers should make professional and individual decisions on the issue of duty to care when their working conditions become unsafe.
Healthcare providers should preserve the integrity, be competent, and manage their self- interest.
Further, healthcare providers should respect and maintain the privacy and confidentiality of the patients and they communicate effectively in order to ensure the safety of the patients.
Explain the impact of negligence, malpractice, and litigation on the relationship between patient and provider.
The impact of professional negligence can affect the patient’s health directly; this can affect the patient’s part of the body or can even cause death. Such professional negligence can lead to the cancellation of the medical license negatively affecting the goodwill of the institution (Goodman, Ogrinc & Leis, 2016)
The video describes approaches health care providers can take to minimize error, reduce risk, and improve communication and collaboration among provider. Summarize these approaches. Explain how these approaches can improve the quality of health care.
Error minimization; this is imperative in the healthcare organization. Organizations should work on the concept on zero error as a single error can lead to an adverse effect on the health of the patient. In order to reduce the errors in medication, healthcare professions should proper standards of care
Risk reduction; healthcare professionals go through massive challenges when dealing with the patient. Because everything is about the patient, the sector involves high risks. In order to reduce the risks, effective technology should be implemented. Risks are categorized into low, medium, and high risk, hence, proper attention should be given in accordance with the risk (Chauhan, Jeyaraman, Mann, 2017).
Enhance communication; healthcare professional needs to communicate effectively in order to enhance the quality gap. Further proper communication is important in the diagnosis and treatment of patients, this is important in the reduction of errors and mistakes in healthcare.
References
Chauhan, B. F., Jeyaraman, M., Mann. (2017). Behavior change interventions and policies influencing primary healthcare professionals’ practice—an overview of reviews. Implementation Science, 12(1), 3.
Goodman, D., Ogrinc, G & Leis, J. (2016). Research and reporting methodology: Explanation and elaboration of the SQUIRE (Standards for Quality Improvement Reporting Excellence) Guidelines, V. 2.0: examples of SQUIRE elements in the healthcare improvement literature. BMJ Quality & Safety, 25(12), e7.
McGaffigan, P. A., Ullem, B. D., & Gandhi, T. K. (2017). Closing the gap and raising the bar: assessing board competency in quality and safety. The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety.
Tang, V., Choy & Cheng, S. W. (2016), September). An intelligent performance assessment system for enhancing the service quality of home care nursing staff in the healthcare industry. In Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET), 2016 Portland International Conference on (pp. 576-584). IEEE.
