University:
College
Course:
College Nursing
Academic year:

2023
Views:

145

Pages:

1
Author:

Cordell Buckley

Three Critical Points Remediation Safety and Infection Control Infection Control: Caring for a client who requires droplet precautions  Droplet precautions protect against droplets larger than 5 mcg and travel 3 to 6 ft from the client  Require a private room, their own equipment, masks for providers and visitors, and client should wear the mask while outside of their room  Droplet precautions include streptococcal pharyngitis, rubella, pertussis, mumps, pneumonia, sepsis, scarlet fever, and the pneumonic plague Management of Care Coordinating client care: objectives of telehealth  Objectives include improving client outcomes, increasing patient engagement and satisfaction, improving patient convenience, providing remote and rural patients with access to care, improving leverage of limited physician resources.  Reducing cost of care delivery, reducing hospital readmission  Improving specialist efficiency, providing access to new specialties, and providing 24/7 access to specialties Maintaining a Safe Environment: strategies for cost containment  Strategies that promote efficient and competent client care while also producing needed revenues for the continues productivity of the organization.  Providing clients with needed education to decrease or eliminate future medical costs associated with future complications.  Strategies that achieve optimal results in relation to the money spend to achieve those results. Managing client care: delegating tasks to assistive personnel  RNs could delegate tasks appropriate for the skill and education level of the health care team member who is receiving the assignment  Must follow the 5 rights of delegation: right task, right circumstance, right person, right direction and communication, and right supervision and evaluation  Must follow ANA codes of standards in delegating and assigning tasks Managing client care: performance improvement process  Standard is developed and approved by facility committee. Made available to employees by way of policies and procedures.  Quality issues are identified by staff, management, or risk managers.  Interprofessional team is developed to review the issue Managing client care: planning a staff education program  Involves methods appropriate to learning domain and learning styles of staff  Initiated in specific situations: new policies and procedures, new equipment, or educational need identified  Can focus on one on one approach, just in time training, or with higher education degree or certification