Home Care Application: Quality Improvement Through Risk Management

Home Care Application: Quality Improvement Through Risk Management

Complete the following assignment using the Allied Health Community media provided in the study materials.

Allied Health Community Navigation Instructions

Open the Allied Health Community media application and click “Enter.”

You will then be brought to a screen with three options: Scenarios, Profiles, Timelines. For this course, you will click on “Scenarios.”

You will see a number of different scenarios for this class. Scroll down and click into “Operations and Risk Management in Health Care.” After reading the instructions and reviewing the legend, close the instructions dialogue box.

On the map you will see a number of different buildings. Hover your cursor over the buildings to see the pop-out label and choose a building applicable to this assignment.

For this assignment you will locate and click into “Home Care” on the right side of the map. Select the green “I” icon. Select the Home Care scenario titled “Quality Improvement Through Risk Management” and choose to Download Full Scenario, which will provide the full scenario and the five questions that you need to answer for this assignment.

Assignment Instructions

Within the Allied Health Community media, read the “Home Care Scenario: Quality Improvement Through Risk Management.”

In a total of 250-500 words, respond to the questions located in the scenario.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion

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HOME CARE SCENARIO: Quality Improvement through Risk Management

Scenario

The long-term care center has 225 beds and provides the highest level of patient care, according to ongoing Department of Health Services annual surveys. The Director of the long-term center has the overall

responsibility of ensuring the continuing high level of quality outcomes while also concurrently keeping

the facility as risk free as practical. You and the Director have just returned from an annual Long-Term

Care Association symposium where you were both introduced to some new groundbreaking initiatives

regarding the differences between risk management and quality improvement.

Earlier in the week, the Director called for a meeting of the center’s department managers, including the

Quality Assurance Nurse and the Manager of Risk Management. After briefing them on the symposium

talking points, your Director asks you to come up with a working plan and strategy for how the facility will use both of the concepts you have introduced to arrive at a more centralized and standardized

approach. Overall, the desired outcomes focus on adopting a new approach to higher quality with fewer

risk factors for the organization.

Later that week, the Manager of Risk Management, the Manager of Nursing Quality Assurance, and a

representative from Human Resources met to formulate a new plan to reduce the litigation exposure

while concurrently increasing the quality of patient outcomes. They set about the complex set of tasks

with the expectation that you, as the Director’s designated facilitator, will be closely reviewing their final

recommendations.

Provide a 250-word executive summary of the research project and recommended plan of action that

you will provide to the Director.

Address the following:

Questions:

1. What is the necessary background information needed to complete your executive summary?Who

are the stakeholders?

2. How do the facility’s current Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) outcomes correspond with the

current litigation prevention systems?

3. What factors within the nursing units are the most critical to consider when examining higher quality

outcomes?

4. What factors within the nursing units are the most critical to consider when examining lower litigation

adverse actions and operational impact?

5. What future steps must be taken to accomplish this directive?