Part 1. Essential Messages: The Path to the Best Nursing Practice
Kenney (2010) makes a very legitimate statement about the necessity to improve the quality of nursing services on a regular basis. The idea of turning hospitals into high-reliability organizations seemed to be the most sensible step to me. One might argue that the attempt at increasing the reliability of the nursing strategies is barely possible due to the threat of an error. However, Kenney (2010) makes it quite clear that a consistent focus on quality allows for a rapid improvement and, therefore, helps reduce the number of errors made in the process. Thus, one can create the prerequisites for a new and improved nursing practice.
Furthermore, the author also implies that a nurse should apply the principles of the patient-centered therapy when carrying out the essential tasks. As long as the nurse takes the patient’s needs into account, the efficacy of the nursing strategies is likely to be high. Finally, one must bring up the concept of a sensible and sustainable use of resources available as an essential conclusion. According to the author, the scenarios that require an immediate application of the appropriate nursing strategies do not necessarily include favorable circumstances.
As a result, a nurse must be resourceful, creating, and devoted in order to provide the patient with the required help and make sure that the therapy will contribute to a faster recovery. Although the ideas mentioned above might seem rather basic, they are the building blocks of a perfect nursing strategy. Meeting the needs of patients with different backgrounds is a challenge. However, once a nurse gets the priorities straight, a positive outcome becomes a possibility (Rispel & Blaauw, 2013).
Part 2. Quality Initiative for a Nursing Leader: Information Management
When considering the broad range of quality initiatives that are available for nurses currently, one should give credit to the ones that focus on providing nurses with educational opportunities. Particularly, one must mention the programs that teach nurses to engage in the self-directed learning process. By providing a nurse with an impetus for continuous progress, one is likely to expect a rapid acquisition of the related knowledge, skills, and competencies within a relatively short amount of time. More importantly, a nurse will be capable of upgrading the new knowledge and skills on a regular basis so that the safety rates could remain high.
In this regard, the program known as the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses provides a perfect foil for a nurse’s professional development. Offering its members an opportunity to gain information about the use of the latest IT tools, the program gives more than mere training. It offers the participants to develop the system thinking that will, later on, be used to give customers the services of the finest quality and create the environment in which they must recover within the shortest amount of time (Dolansky & Moore, 2013).
As a nurse leader, one should embrace the program due to the numerous opportunities that it has to offer. Apart from maintaining communication with the patients and improving the current feedback system, a nurse may consider using the framework to manage a range of work-related information management processes. For instance, handoff conversations could use extensive improvement with the help of the framework in question. Furthermore, retrieving feedback from the patients will be much easier with the adoption of the program (Joseph & Huber, 2015).
Reference List
Dolansky, M. A., & Moore, S. M. (2013). Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN): The Key is Systems Thinking. OJIN: The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, 18(3), Manuscript 1. Web.
Joseph, M. L., & Huber, D. L. (2015). Clinical leadership development and education for nurses: prospects and opportunities. Journal of Healthcare Leadership, 1(7), 55-64.
Kenney, C. (2010). The best practice: How the New Quality Movement is transforming medicine. Public Affairs: New York, NY.
Rispel, L. C., & Blaauw, D. (2013). The health system consequences of agency nursing and moonlighting in South Africa. Global Health Action, 8(1), 43-111.