Now more than every the importance of quality is a top priority for several different industries, including the health care industry. By having a robust quality management plan in place companies are able to identify areas for improvement and focus on ensuring their employees receive the proper training to correct and prevent future compliance issues. A HIM professional has the opportunity to ensure compliance in nearly any role in the industry. For example, a health information management professional assists medical billing and coding departments by ensuring that the medical software being used at a healthcare facility supports the correct billed services, assigns the proper diagnostics and procedural codes listed in a patient records, and when performing coding audits, for quality and accuracy (Sayles, 2014).…
Huntsville Hospital strives for perfection as well, unfortunately “never events” have occurred within the walls of the hospital. The National Quality Forum literally defines a “never event” as a preventable adverse event occurring in a health care setting that should never happen; like, wrong site surgery, patient falls, and medication errors as examples (Gitlow et al., 2013) A patient admitted to the hospital to receive right wrist surgery woke up with surgery to the left wrist. The event was researched, evaluated, reported, and resulted in changes within the institution. A malpractice case filed against the surgeon and the hospital existed and was settled. The adoption of the mandates of JCAHO allowed for implementation within Huntsville hospital to prevent wrong site surgery consists of many valuable steps such as; asking the patient what surgery and where, marking the surgical site with a permanent marker or using the alternative site marking form to identify, limb alert bands, and also the time-out, allowing anyone involved in the patient care to stop the procedure to ensure accuracy. The responsibility to improve quality patient care is assigned to each individual employee that works for a facility and will proceed in continuing to develop even higher quality, on top of the existing quality, CQI (Hashmi…
The Washington Post article “Top Ten Management Mistakes” addresses some errors in judgment a manager can make. Go to the link below and read the article, then choose three of the mistakes and, using the information in Chapters 12 and 14, discuss strategies for correcting these mistakes in the health care setting. Also, respond to at least two classmates’ posts.…
The trend to advance patient safety and quality in health care organizations is based on implementing the concepts of high reliability organization. The core characteristics of the HRO have been well documented in the literature from the work of Weick and Sutcliffe (2001:2007). This is to reduce the system failure. The focus of a HRO is safe reliable performance. Weick and Sutcliffe ( 2001; 2007) described three types of unexpected events that require mindfulness to ensure to safe reliable performance.…
Employee evaluations are a vital service to the hospital because they administrator works long and hard at recruiting, interviewing, and…
A guiding principle followed by most administrators and health care providers is the concept that ethical principles must match the values of the whole organization. This belief should serve as a continuous teaching to all staff so that the organization’s goals may be uniformly achieved. Healthcare administrators must be fully competent in adhering to the ethical principles of patient and employee confidentiality in order to promote trust, respect, and the protection of individual’s rights concerning health information. This is one of the main objectives of the Privacy Rule or HIPAA, and a breach to…
In this research paper I will discuss what Dr. DoRight, of Universal Human Care Hospital will do when he discovers that patients within the hospital have been dying as a result of a variety of illegal procedures by doctors and nurses and negligent supervision and oversight on their part. I will analyze the rights of employees to health and safety in the workplace. I will address the duty of loyalty, and conflicts of interest between internal and external stakeholders. I will also discuss the ethical duties to report illegal procedures, along with the deontology and utilitarianism principles. The Universal Human Care Hospital needs to decide how to handle the situation at the hospital.…
The ethical issues addressed in this paper are the various reasons healthcare industry administrators and other entities choose to delay updating and enhancing outdated Hospital Information Technology (HIT). Even though their responsibility to provide the best care and information/ education to the patients and staff is very important, it does not seem like a priority just until the recent years. Also discussed are the resources and benefits they will inevitably gain by implementing the recommended solutions provided. I have chosen this topic because I myself have always had an interest in many types of technology, especially if I can use it to improve my performance. I have been working in healthcare for almost 7 years now and realize that this is important because we are now in an era of technology being implemented in every part of our lives and how more efficient we can be with information technology. This just doesn’t apply to the healthcare industry, but this essay is in regards to why most of the healthcare industry as a whole has been slow to adapt to modern information technology in their daily business operations and health records keeping. The subjects that will be discussed are the criteria for a…
The public have also spoken out saying that they want responsibility for any malpractice and also misconduct when it is used and identified, to be address quickly and more effectively. “An estimated third of all public spending on services is now delivered by third party providers such as private companies, social enterprises and charities – from hospitals and ambulance services to libraries and social housing. Often the public do not make a distinction. In many cases, they do not have a choice.” (Bew, 2014) The cost of failure within the NHS is momentous. Last year was scandals regarding staff altering their performance data, and also the fraudulent actions of individuals who recruited for government funded employment and also training schemes which were in place, with these type of scandals this threw away the importance of ethical behaviour within the public services as a whole into a much wider focus.…
“Healthcare Compliance Manager provides career tracks for compliance specialists who are responsible for monitoring health and human services program operations for compliance with federal and state regulations and standards in order to promote health and safety, assure that public services are delivered properly, or prevent fraud. Areas assessed may include service delivery, eligibility determination and payment, medical reimbursement, risk and safety, or operational practices.” Responsibilities range from entry level professional to management. Employees inspecting medical facilities must be licensed as health care professionals. In this paper I will introduce you to an upcoming field of management that is in place for those who have completed a degree in Registered Health Information Technology or Administration. This is a job for those that have an interest in working in a different type of healthcare field instead of working with patients records. I will discuss the job description, responsibilities, challenges, ethical issues, and the career path.…
Human error in nursing is usually unavoidable, unpredictable and unintentional. Further, some risks include language barriers, neglecting to follow the policy, in a hurry to complete the task. As a supervisor, I encountered a nurse who gave a patient the wrong medications. The error occurred when the patient answered to the wrong name, and the nurse failed to check the patient’s identification bracelet. Other errors can include carelessness on the behalf of the staff as well as not taking the time to listen to the patient (Raso & Gulinello, 2010). Therefore, the aims of the risk management are to reduce as well as prevent any risk to patients and the health facility. Risk factors may result in financial loss, preventable…
References: Susan K. Banschbach, RN, MSN, CNOR professional accountability in perioperative nursing, 2009, Retrieved from: http://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/articles/2009/02/professional-accountability-in-perioperative-nurs.aspx…
Medical errors do happen and pose a huge problem in the healthcare industry. Errors in healthcare can happen because of a number of reasons. The most common is lack of communication. Communication is imperative in healthcare. Failure to communicate can lead to problems in identifying patients, which can lead to other more serious errors such as incorrect procedures. Another form of error comes from faulty equipment. Hospitals have had problems with defective equipment, and because of this injury and death have occurred. Error in the healthcare system is also a potential risk for mistakes. High workload, rapid organizational change, inadequate supervision, and a faulty chain of command are all characteristics of most major healthcare delivery…
In America 's working society today, each company has a code of ethics that they utilize in providing their organization with as a reference to guide them in their accountability and to help them in circumstances that they might find unethical in disposition. The American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) is an international professional society of more than 30,000 healthcare executives who lead hospitals, healthcare systems and other healthcare organizations (www.ACHE.org). The organization is known for their educational programs including the annual Congress on Healthcare Leadership (www.ACHE.org). ACHE’s works towards their goal of being the premier professional society for healthcare executives dedicated to improving healthcare delivery (www.ACHE.org). This paper will explain the code of ethics that the majority of professional organizations implement to providing their organizations with a system to guide them in the achievement of their job obligations, in circumstances that might be otherwise ethically wrong.…
These incidents can drastically reduce if healthcare professionals would take the time to fully understand and thoroughly communication between one another. Health care professional must realize they are dealing with people’s lives within a hospital setting. In particular, a significant amount of decisions…