assignment Quality and Safety in Health Care
• Governance and patient safety issues
• Clinical audits-include audit tool about falls not less then annuallyref Harvard Author date system-1500 wordsWrite a report that demonstrates your understanding of the audit process, the communication pathways undertaken and how this related to the audit literature. Critique the selected tool and justify any recommendations for amendment. Discuss your audit findings and any issues that arose and how this relates to the area of clinical risk highlighted following completion of the audit. Make recommendations for quality improvement and how they may be achieved within the auditing framework. Include the audit tool and a summary of the results of your audit as an attachment to the submitted report. To construct the audit summary your attention is drawn to recommendations from the literature as related to presenting audit.
Justifies audit strategies and critiques findings incorporating quality and safety literature.
Criterion 2 Critiques the selected audit tool and makes sound recommendations for amendment.
Criterion 3 Analyses the significant communication strategies negotiated and includes critical commentary on quality improvement processes.
Criterion 4 Integrates evidenced based literature to support discussion.
This module will provide you with the opportunity to enhance your understanding of the process of auditing for quality and safety. Please read broadly around the subject area.
reading
reading list -Mannucci, Pier Mannuccio., 2012, ‘Clinical governance: many fancies, very few facts ‘, Internal and Emergency Medicine , 7, 1, 2012
Ramsay, A., Magnusson, C., & Fulop, N., 2010, ‘The relationship between external and local governance systems: the case of Health Care Associated Infections and medication errors in one NHS trust’, Quality & safety in health care, 19, 6, 1-8
Stausmire, Julie M ; Ulrich, Charla, 2015, ”Making It Meaningful: Finding Quality Improvement Projects Worthy of Your Time, Effort, and Expertise…second of a 4-part quality improvement”, Critical care nurse, 35, 6, 57-62
Wang, N, Hailey, D, & Yu, P , 2011, ‘Quality of nursing documentation and approaches to its evaluation: a mixed-method systematic review’, Journal of Advanced Nursing, 67, 9, 1858-1875
Note: Links to readings are available through the Library Reading List
Web Resource
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What is a clinical audit? (one page summary, part of the “What is” series)
Western Australia Department of Health – Safety and Quality Example from Western Australia. Please read the definition and examples.
Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (F
A Practical Guide to Clinical Audit
Clinical audit relating to falls
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