Define healthcare management. Describe the role of leadership in the dynamic context of healthcare organizations
Category: healthcare
Enhancing Patient Safety and Minimizing Drug Errors in Healthcare Settings
Annual pharmacy drug cost has increased from $10,300,000 to $16,800,000 in the past five years. The hospital is experiencing an increase in drug cost even though actual drug usage has remained stable.
Along with the increase in drug cost, drug related errors have also increased. Patient safety has become an even more serious issue. As you know, patient safety is the number one item on the national health care agenda for the next several years.
At the hospital the number of dispensing errors has increased by two percent during the past twelve months. The registered nurses who are administering the drugs have discovered many of the dispensing errors; however, the ones not discovered resulted in patients getting the wrong drug, wrong dosage, and/or the wrong frequency. When the overall drug error rate was analyzed, it was found that dispensing errors in the pharmacy were the number one cause. The overall drug error rate had increased from three percent to five percent.
Fortunately most of the dispensing errors were discovered before the medications were administered to the patients. When the incorrect drugs were administered, it resulted in adverse effects in three cases. One patient received the right medication but the wrong dosage because the medication label was incorrect. This patient had to be admitted overnight to the Intensive Care Unit for intense cardiac and respiratory monitoring. The patient stayed in ICU for approximately twenty-four hours. Another patient received the wrong medication on the day of planned discharge and had to remain in the hospital for an additional day, though only for observation. In the third case, the patient had reported that he was allergic to a certain category of drugs, but nonetheless received a drug of that type. He had an adverse reaction–a rash–which delayed his discharge by one day.
On the basis of your understanding of the above case study, express your views on the following:
What measures should be adopted to reduce the overall drug error rate in the hospital?
What special benefits should be given to the patients who have suffered due to negligence by the hospital staff for wrong drug administration and other reasons?
In your opinion, should the hospital staff who were responsible for the dispensing errors be held personally liable for the errors? Why or why not?
Use the following resources as well as your Textbook for this assignment.
Ellsworth, M. A., M.D., Aakre, C. A., M.D., Dziadzko, Mikhail,M.D., PhD., Peters, S. G., M.D., Pickering, Brian W,M.B., B.Ch, & Herasevich, Vitaly,M.D., PhD. (2016). Early computerization of patient care at mayo clinic. Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 91(7), E93-E101. doi:http://dx.doi.org.southuniversity.libproxy.edmc.edu/10.1016/j.mayocp.2016.04
Lan, H., Thongprayoon, C., Ahmed, A., Herasevich, V., Sampathkumar, P., Gajic, O., & O’Horo, J. C. (2015). Automating quality metrics in the era of electronic medical records: Digital signatures for ventilator bundle compliance. BioMed Research International, 2015, 1-6. doi:10.1155/2015/396508
Exploring Cross Training of Lab Technicians as X-Ray Technicians in Healthcare
the Internet, research cross training techniques. Based on your research and training, respond to the following:
What steps would you take in deciding whether or not to cross train lab technicians as x-ray technicians?
What are the negative and positive financial considerations in making this decision?
What steps will you take to deal with a weekend staffing crisis whereby your small hospital has no x-ray technicians in-house, yet the demand for their services is very high including 30 percent of the need emanating from critical care units?
Make sure that you include an introduction and conclusion to your post.
Varicella
Choose 3 abstract topics. typed 300-word summary per topic, researched and summarized in your own words, on the abstract topics that you have chosen
Abstract Topics:
Varicella
Zika Virus
Antibiotics: Less Is More
The Fundamental Link Between Body Weight and The Immune System
Choose 3 abstract topics. typed 300-word summary per topic, researched and summarized in your own words, on the abstract topics that you have chosen
Abstract Topics:
The Fundamental Link Between Body Weight and The Immune System
Stress and Health Psychological, Behavioral, & Biological Determinants
Smoking Causes Extensive Damage to DNA
The Impact of AI in Education and Research: A Case Study of Canva and Unriddle
The use of AI in teaching, learning and research. A case study of Canva and unriddle
Organization: XYZ Corporation
Research an organization of your choice. This can be one you currently work for or have worked for in the past. This can also be another organization such as a local organization whose leaders would be willing to be interviewed or an organization you research online.
Address the following:
Summarize the types of organizational structures and their characteristics managers might consider when assessing how to structure design an organization
Assess which organizational structure the organization you chose uses based on the assigned reading and a review of the company’s information including an organizational chart. Include a copy of the organizational chart with proper source credit.
Summarize the types of controls important to effective organizational management based on assigned reading.
Propose how the organization’s structure, culture, management systems, and decision-making processes relate to one another.
Cite all sources in APA format
Telehealth Medicine
Telehealth Medicine
For this assignment, answer the following questions:
• What are the Pros and Cons to telehealth?
• How will you approach and perform a telehealth assessment?
• What are the limits to telehealth?
• What is the difference between the provider’s need for a successful telehealth visit versus the Patient’s perspective?
Advocating for Mental Health Care Access
Topic: Policy-Priority Selection
Identify your selected healthcare concern in your city or state that needs your advocacy with an elected official.
What is the impetus and rationale for your selection? What is your solution to this concern? Describe the model
of policy making that you feel would be best applied to your policy concern and the rationale for selecting this
model
The Interconnectedness of Environment and Human Health
Research the effects of the environment on human health. Does the health of the environment affect the health of the human beings within it? Make an argument that supports your answer. Start your research by reading this article: https://orionmagazine.org/article/beyond-the-patient/.