Running Head: INFORMATION MANAGEMENT AUDIT 1 Executive Summary Nightingale Community Hospital is preparing for a Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations‚ or JCAHO‚ audit. In preparation of the coming audit‚ Nightingale has released JCAHO’s Priority Focus Areas for the hospital. The priority focus areas outlined are Information Management‚ Medication Management‚ Communication‚ and Infection Control. The area of focus for this assessment will be Information Management
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Organizational Strategies for Quality Assessment and Improvement The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) Ambiguous medical notations are one of the most common and preventable causes of medication errors (Grissinger & Kelly‚ 2005). Drug names‚ dosage units‚ and directions for use should be written clearly to minimize confusion. The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) and the Food and Drug Administration recommend that error-prone abbreviations are considered whenever medical
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Part I For more than a decade‚ Via Christi has sponsored a variety of initiatives designed to improve the quality of care provided. These efforts have engaged staff‚ patients and physicians at all levels within the hospital to measure and improve the quality and safety of patient care. At times these initiatives have seen success and failures‚ but with the recent push for our “big aim” quality is the major focus. The physicians‚ nurses‚ other clinicians and administrative leaders overwhelmingly agreed
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process‚ 63 out-of-limits parts in every 1 million produced by a 4-sigma process‚ and so on. 1.2 History of SPC SPC(Statistical Process Control) originated as far back in 1931‚ when Dr Walter Shewhart wrote a book‚ The Economic Control of Quality of Manufactured Product. He is a statistician from Bell Laboratories which was the first to realise that data could be retrieved by industrial processes themselves. By using statistical methods‚ these data could then signal that the process is in
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Total Quality Management Survey In order for any organization to survive the fierce competition in the business world‚ the organization must be aware of opportunities to grow and reduce costs and be supported by Total Quality Management Process. The TQM process helps the company create new products ensuring the utmost standards of quality and customer satisfaction is achieved‚ which is the main goal of TQM process. In addition‚ the TQM process also helps in improving a company ’s bottom line profits
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Implement Quality Improvement at Riordan Manufacturing Continual improvements are essential for businesses to attain a competitive advantage in their industry and remain profitable. Riordan Manufacturing must apply Total Quality Management (TQM) to their organizational processes to eliminate waste‚ reduce costs‚ increase productivity‚ and focus on customer satisfaction. This paper identifies an improvement plan by outlining the steps of Riordan Manufacturing’s developed quality management process
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I strongly believe that continuous improvement is more important than quality control. The reason behind my thinking is that quality control is an element of continuous improvement for the following reason. Quality control only identifies rejects. Its only purpose is to inspect items or services to determine whether or not a set criteria‚ or standard‚ is met; and decide whether the item will be fixed‚ rejected‚ or passed. Continuous improvement is the ability to constantly change and adapt by getting
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Learning Plan 5 Quality Improvement Initiative Identify a business that has recently launched a quality improvement initiative (Harley Davidson would be just one of many examples). Your business could be one that is primarily product-providing or one that is primarily service-providing. Do some independent research in order to provide an overview of this initiative and the results of their efforts. The overview should take the form of a two-page paper. Within that assignment‚ cite examples of any
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Needs Assessment for Quality Improvement Paper Team B University of Phoenix A description of the chosen process A description of the chosen process is to advertise products and services that are available to the community in a manner that is easier for the client to identify and find. The Office of Community Collaboration’s (OCC) website could contain links that would be a resource tool to guide the public clients and professionals to community resources that meet the needs of Texas’
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Accreditation Audit AFT Task 3 Lisa R. Green A1. Evaluation Nightingale Community Hospital (NCH) is committed to upholding the core values of safety‚ accountability‚ teamwork‚ and community. In preparation for the upcoming readiness audit‚ NCH will be launching a corrective action plan in direct response to the recent findings in the tracer patient. Background information on the tracer patient is as follows: 67 year old female postoperative patient recovering from a planned laparoscopic
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