Improving quality in HealthCare
The hospital facility safety is an alarming issue which is continually putting patients at risk. A number of cases were reported in 2015 whereby hospitals fail to ensure cleaning of the sewage channels, sterilization of the treatment equipment and poor maintenance of hospital facilities (Skochelak et al, 2016). Some often compromise an infection control risk assessment which is essential in ensuring safety within the healthcare centers. This makes the patients more vulnerable to infections other than those which hospitalized them.
In order to uphold hospital facility safety, healthcare centers should employ the best strategies that support the efforts. The most recommendable strategy nevertheless is the re-evaluation of the maintenance protocols. This is a strategy that ensures that old facilities are replaced, sterilization of hospital equipment, and ventilation in rooms are re-evaluated for improvement. It also includes an infection control risk assessment which should be regularly done to ensure safety in the hospital (Skochelak et al, 2016).
In essence, the strategy majorly advocates safety more than any other aims of IOM care. When high safety standards are attained, infections that soon cause deaths to patients in the healthcare centers would be significantly be reduced. Services would be favorable enough for the recovery of the patients.Interprofessional collaboration has an important significance in the implementation of the re-evaluation protocol strategy. This means that reform in the safety measures is not dependent on an individual’s hands but rather teamwork (Skochelak et al, 2016). Interprofessional collaboration would bring together ideas that will help in the implementation of the re-evaluation strategy such as replacement of some facilities, engineers would recommend friendly equipment and perhaps physicians would recommend the best practices to the healthcare workers. All this will be based on the global aim of safety in the healthcare centers.
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Skochelak, S. E., Hawkins, R. E., Lawson, L. E., Starr, S. R., Borkan, J., & Gonzalo, J. D. (2016). Health Systems Science.
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