Discuss The Nurses Role In Supporting The Organization's Strategic Agenda
The Nurse’s Role in Supporting the Organization’s Strategic Agenda
Walden University
NURS 4005 Section 04, Topics in Clinical Nursing
April 20, 2014
Nurses Role in Clinical Outcomes
The improvement of quality and patient safety must be a coordinated and a collaborative effort that involves all clinical services across the continuum of care. There are many challenges in health care and the ability to address the quality and safety issues depend upon adequate levels of appropriately educated and well prepared nurses. The purpose of this paper is to discuss how the nurse’s role can impact clinical outcomes in an organization.
Summary of the Interview
For this interview I selected Kathy Bilys, Director of Quality at Porter Adventist Hospital. Kathy started her career in the technology field and decided to change paths about 12 years ago and has been at Porter ever since. Kathy is responsible for facilitating the efforts of the hospital to improve and sustain quality throughout our integrated systems. Kathy fully believes that nurse’s drive patient outcomes and for this to be successful nurse’s must not only be educated but they need to be invested in the desire to move metrics in a positive direction. The Joint Commission states that “nurses have an …show more content…
Nurse’s need to be a more active participant in the decision making process of patient care and process improvements which could then increase quality outcomes. An organization’s culture of safety is the result of shared values and behavior that demonstrate communications based on mutual trust, agreement on the importance of safety, and confidence in the ability to prevent errors through use of known safety practices (Kemper & Boyle, 2009). By following these guidelines it would seem impossible to not have metrics move in a positive
Walden University
NURS 4005 Section 04, Topics in Clinical Nursing
April 20, 2014
Nurses Role in Clinical Outcomes
The improvement of quality and patient safety must be a coordinated and a collaborative effort that involves all clinical services across the continuum of care. There are many challenges in health care and the ability to address the quality and safety issues depend upon adequate levels of appropriately educated and well prepared nurses. The purpose of this paper is to discuss how the nurse’s role can impact clinical outcomes in an organization.
Summary of the Interview
For this interview I selected Kathy Bilys, Director of Quality at Porter Adventist Hospital. Kathy started her career in the technology field and decided to change paths about 12 years ago and has been at Porter ever since. Kathy is responsible for facilitating the efforts of the hospital to improve and sustain quality throughout our integrated systems. Kathy fully believes that nurse’s drive patient outcomes and for this to be successful nurse’s must not only be educated but they need to be invested in the desire to move metrics in a positive direction. The Joint Commission states that “nurses have an …show more content…
Nurse’s need to be a more active participant in the decision making process of patient care and process improvements which could then increase quality outcomes. An organization’s culture of safety is the result of shared values and behavior that demonstrate communications based on mutual trust, agreement on the importance of safety, and confidence in the ability to prevent errors through use of known safety practices (Kemper & Boyle, 2009). By following these guidelines it would seem impossible to not have metrics move in a positive