Assignment: Accreditation Survey Brochure

Assignment: Accreditation Survey Brochure

Preparation for Accreditation Survey

Patient’s Rights- Privacy and Confidentiality

·       When releasing patient’s information, make sure that you have followed the HIPPA guidelines

·       Protect patient’s data from access by unauthorised personnel

·       Avoid talking about patient’s information in public

·       Ensure that all the door or protective curtains are closed when conducting patient examination

·       Ask for permission from the patient before sharing their medical diagnosis with any concerned relatives

·       Protect patient data with passwords known by only authorized personnel (Bourgeois, Nigrin, & Harper, 2015).

Environmental Health and Safety

·       Ensure that all the staff members are aware of all the emergency codes and what different colors represent (Olds, Aiken, Cimiotti, & Lake, 2017).

·       Be aware of fire safety protocols

·       Ensure that all the staff members are aware of how to handle hazardous materials in terms of storage, transportation, and disposal (Rösslein et al., 2017)

·       Ensure that all the eye washing stations are clean and inspected regularly

·       Ensure that heating, ventilation, air conditioning (HVAC) filters are well installed and maintained

Professional Qualities

·       Be empathetic

·       Always groom appropriately

·       Always write everything down in details

·       Always be organized

·       Be emotionally stable

·       Be adaptable

·       Have mental and physical endurance

·       Always work in a team

Goals for Patient Safety

·       Curb infection spread

·       Use medicines safely

·       Identify patients correctly

·       Avoid surgical errors

·       Customize hospital discharges

·       Prevent venous thromboembolism (VTE)

·       Use good hospital design principles

·       Share data for quality improvement

·       Assemble better teams and rapid response systems (Ban et al., 2017).

·       Foster an open-communication culture

How to Curb Infection Spread

·       Enhance antibiotic stewardship

·       Enhancement of comprehensive unit-based safety programs

·       Effective surveillance

·       Ensure that all the staff members receive the recommended vaccinations

·       Enhance consistent screening and cohorts of patients (Olds, Aiken, Cimiotti, & Lake, 2017).

·       Proper hand hygiene when before and after handling patients

How to Use Medicines Safely

·       Be vigilant when administering medications

·       Assessment the medications before administration.

·       Be diligent in all medical calculations

·       Avoid workarounds

·       Effective communication with the patient before and after the administration of medications

·       Ensure that all medications have not expired

·       Report all errors, near misses, and adverse reactions (McGrath, Taenzer, Blike, & Karon, 2016).

Quality Improvement Strategies

·       Enhance effective communication

·       Enhance teamwork

·       Use proved methodologically sound approaches

·       Integrate evidence-based and patient-based practice

·       Fostering and sustaining a culture of change and safety

·       Continuous monitoring of performance (Reames, Krell, Campbell, & Dimick, 2015).

References

Ban, K. A., Minei, J. P., Laronga, C., Harbrecht, B. G., Jensen, E. H., Fry, D. E., Itani, K. M. F., … Duane, T. M. (January 01, 2017). American College of Surgeons and Surgical Infection Society: Surgical Site Infection Guidelines, 2016 Update. Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 224, 1, 59-74.

Bourgeois, F. C., Nigrin, D. J., & Harper, M. B. (January 01, 2015). Preserving patient privacy and confidentiality in the era of personal health records. Pediatrics, 135, 5, 1125-7.

McGrath, S. P., Taenzer, A. H., Blike, G., & Karon, N. (July 01, 2016). Surveillance monitoring management for general care units: Strategy, design, and implementation. Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, 42, 7, 293-302.

Olds, D. M., Aiken, L. H., Cimiotti, J. P., & Lake, E. T. (January 01, 2017). Association of nurse work environment and safety climate on patient mortality: A cross-sectional study. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 74, 155-161.

Reames, B. N., Krell, R. W., Campbell, D. A. J., & Dimick, J. B. (January 01, 2015). A checklist-based intervention to improve surgical outcomes in Michigan: evaluation of the Keystone Surgery program. Jama Surgery, 150, 3, 208-15.

Rösslein, M., Liptrott, N. J., Owen, A., Boisseau, P., Wick, P., & Herrmann, I. K. (February 07, 2017). Sound understanding of environmental, health and safety, clinical, and market aspects is imperative to clinical translation of nanomedicines. Nanotoxicology, 11, 2, 147-149.

Assignment: Accreditation Survey Brochure

You are a nurse leader on a very busy Medical-Surgical Unit. Your goal is to maintain continual ”survey readiness” so the staff is always prepared for an unannounced survey. You have decided that your best tactic would be to design an educational handout to assist your staff in preparing for the survey. Design a one-to-two page educational tool to best prepare your staff for an accreditation survey.

Important information for writing discussion questions and participation

Welcome to class

Hello class and welcome to the class and I will be your instructor for this course. This is a -week course and requires a lot of time commitment, organization, and a high level of dedication. Please use the class syllabus to guide you through all the assignments required for the course. I have also attached the classroom policies to this announcement to know your expectations for this course. Please review this document carefully and ask me any questions if you do. You could email me at any time or send me a message via the “message” icon in halo if you need to contact me. I check my email regularly, so you should get a response within 24 hours. If you have not heard from me within 24 hours and need to contact me urgently, please send a follow up text to

I strongly encourage that you do not wait until the very last minute to complete your assignments. Your assignments in weeks 4 and 5 require early planning as you would need to present a teaching plan and interview a community health provider. I advise you look at the requirements for these assignments at the beginning of the course and plan accordingly. I have posted the YouTube link that explains all the class assignments in detail. It is required that you watch this 32-minute video as the assignments from week 3 through 5 require that you follow the instructions to the letter to succeed. Failure to complete these assignments according to instructions might lead to a zero. After watching the video, please schedule a one-on-one with me to discuss your topic for your project by the second week of class. Use this link to schedule a 15-minute session. Please, call me at the time of your appointment on my number. Please note that I will NOT call you.

Please, be advised I do NOT accept any assignments by email. If you are having technical issues with uploading an assignment, contact the technical department and inform me of the issue. If you have any issues that would prevent you from getting your assignments to me by the deadline, please inform me to request a possible extension. Note that working fulltime or overtime is no excuse for late assignments. There is a 5%-point deduction for every day your assignment is late. This only applies to approved extensions. Late assignments will not be accepted.

If you think you would be needing accommodations due to any reasons, please contact the appropriate department to request accommodations.

Plagiarism is highly prohibited. Please ensure you are citing your sources correctly using APA 7th edition. All assignments including discussion posts should be formatted in APA with the appropriate spacing, font, margin, and indents. Any papers not well formatted would be returned back to you, hence, I advise you review APA formatting style. I have attached a sample paper in APA format and will also post sample discussion responses in subsequent announcements.

Your initial discussion post should be a minimum of 200 words and response posts should be a minimum of 150 words. Be advised that I grade based on quality and not necessarily the number of words you post. A minimum of TWO references should be used for your initial post. For your response post, you do not need references as personal experiences would count as response posts. If you however cite anything from the literature for your response post, it is required that you cite your reference. You should include a minimum of THREE references for papers in this course. Please note that references should be no more than 5 years old except recommended as a resource for the class. Furthermore, for each discussion board question, you need ONE initial substantive response and TWO substantive responses to either your classmates or your instructor for a total of THREE responses. There are TWO discussion questions each week, hence, you need a total minimum of SIX discussion posts for each week. I usually post a discussion question each week. You could also respond to these as it would count towards your required SIX discussion posts for the week.

I understand this is a lot of information to cover in 5 weeks, however, the Bible says in Philippians 4:13 that we can do all things through Christ that strengthens us. Even in times like this, we are encouraged by God’s word that we have that ability in us to succeed with His strength. I pray that each and every one of you receives strength for this course and life generally as we navigate through this pandemic that is shaking our world today. Relax and enjoy the course!

Hi Class,

Please read through the following information on writing a Discussion question response and participation posts.

Contact me if you have any questions.

Important information on Writing a Discussion Question

• Your response needs to be a minimum of 150 words (not including your list of references)
• There needs to be at least TWO references with ONE being a peer reviewed professional journal article.
• Include in-text citations in your response
• Do not include quotes—instead summarize and paraphrase the information
• Follow APA-7th edition
• Points will be deducted if the above is not followed

Participation –replies to your classmates or instructor

• A minimum of 6 responses per week, on at least 3 days of the week.
• Each response needs at least ONE reference with citations—best if it is a peer reviewed journal article
• Each response needs to be at least 75 words in length (does not include your list of references)
• Responses need to be substantive by bringing information to the discussion or further enhance the discussion. Responses of “I agree” or “great post” does not count for the word count.
• Follow APA 7th edition
• Points will be deducted if the above is not followed

• Remember to use and follow APA-7th edition for all weekly assignments, discussion questions, and participation points.
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