Explain what is meant by the term ‘clinical governance’ AND discuss the implications and impact of clinical governance on practicing pharmacists and pharmacy services. Throughout the world‚ societies are striving to determine how best to organise their health systems and deliver services. Increasingly‚ there is recognition that the development and evaluation of new therapies and diagnostic tools is only part of the answer to better health care(1). Clinical governance first began to appear in the
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Clinical Reflection: Friendship The social stigma that comes with mental illness is often more disabling than the illness itself. The labels attributed to those who are mentally ill are not only discriminating but also isolating; those perceived less than able are kept and ignored. However‚ there are organizations that advocates and helps to integrate these most vulnerable individuals into our society‚ and that is what made this clinical rotation at Friendship special. Most of the individual
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Bedside Rounding: Improving Patient Care and Safety Purpose: * PATIENT SAFETY * Reducing preventable errors resulting in facility acquired illness/injury * Reducing increased healthcare costs related to errors due to inadequate shift change reports * Involving patients in their own care by allowing them to be involved in their own report during shift change * Reducing barriers to communication between patient‚ family‚ and staff Benefits: * PATIENT SAFETY * Allows
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OBJECTIVE: To recommend effective strategies for implementing clinical practice guidelines (CPGs). DATA SOURCES: The Research and Development Resource Base in Continuing Medical Education‚ maintained by the University of Toronto‚ was searched‚ as was MEDLINE from January 1990 to June 1996‚ inclusive‚ with the use of the MeSH heading "practice guidelines" and relevant text words. STUDY SELECTION: Studies of CPG implementation strategies and reviews of such studies were selected. Randomized controlled
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Purposeful Rounding as a Tool to Reduce Patient Falls Cheryl Grohn‚ RN-BC‚ MPH May‚ 2013 Background: Patient falls are one of the eight patient outcomes included in the nursing care performance measures adopted by the National Quality Forum. Hospitalization increases the risk for falls; reviews of observational studies in acute care hospitals show that fall rates range from 1.3 to 8.9 falls/1‚000 patient days. Fall rates were reduced by as much as 50%‚ in 7 of 9 studies of purposeful rounding where
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Clinical supervision sits at the heart of the UK Government ’s agenda for improving the quality of service delivery (Department of Health‚ 1997‚ 1998‚ 1999). The practice in the workplace was introduced as a way of using reflective practice and shared experiences as a part of continuing professional development. Clinical supervision has ensured that standards of clinical care remain a key mechanism for monitoring the performance of Trusts‚ with clinical performance measures being given equal weight
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UNIT 2 BUSINESS CORRESPONDENCE 2. The Communication Process The ability to communicate effectively is an important skill to develop‚ especially‚ when you are asked to speak or write to another organisation or to colleagues within your organisation. How well you inform‚ influence‚ and persuade others determines the progress you make in your career and the quality of your personal relationships. Communication is the process of sending and receiving messages. Effective communication occurs
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with Curriculum September 2008 Paper Wings Guidelines This may look ridiculous and appear to be a child’s play. As you use the kit and build your first plane‚ you will realize that it is not all that simple. Soon you will learn to make the plane to fly and discover the joy of flying. In the process you will learn the nuances of flying intuitively. This document will provide you with the essential hints to make the planes and fly them. Follow the guidelines and experience the joy of flying. At the
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Clinical Documentation System Excelsior College October 6‚ 2013 Clinical Documentation System Clinical information system (CIS) collects patient data in real time‚ stores healthcare data and information using secure access to the healthcare team. (McGonigle & Garver Mastrian‚ 2012‚ p. 554). The CIS that is used at Texas Health Dallas is CareConnect. CareConnect is used by all of the Texas Health Resources (THR) encompassing 25 hospitals‚ affiliated physician
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Unique cases written by pediatric residents with a faculty member. Resident Rounds Diagnostic Evaluation in Children With Developmental Delay: A Cautionary Tale for Genetic Testing Clinical Pediatrics 51(12) 1208–1210 © The Author(s) 2012 Reprints and permission: sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/0009922812460916 http://cpj.sagepub.com Meghana Desale‚ BA1‚ Lila T. Worden‚ BS1‚ Julie S. Cohen‚ ScM2‚ Anna Maria Wilms Floet‚ MD1‚2‚ and Alexander Holliday Hoon‚ Jr
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