Safety, Quality, and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Care

Safety, Quality, and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Care 

Perform an internet search to identify and research a situation where a health care organization or individual provider in your field of allied health was sanctioned by the accrediting body (e.g., The Joint Commission) and another regulatory body for violating one or more of the accrediting body’s workplace safety, risk management, and/or quality care requirements.

Taking on the role of chief safety or risk management officer in the organization or provider’s office who now must deliver an account of the chosen incident to the board of directors.

1.A brief summary of the incident, including a description as well as the outcome. 

2.A summary of the applicable MIPPA approved accrediting body, other regulatory standards (e.g., local, state), or licensing/certification standards that apply to the incident. 

3.A discussion of the mistakes and/or oversights made by the health care organization or individual provider that did or may have led to the incident that occurred, and an account of the preventive steps that could have or should have been taken to avoid them. 

4. A proposal outlining specific education or training the organization or provider will employ to ensure this type of incident does not occur in the future. Include concepts related to continuous quality improvement in your recommendations. 

5.An inclusion of a CQI tool to be used to implement the training or education program being proposed.

6. Risk management functions and quality improvement functions in an organization can overlap in terms of addressing patient and staff safety. For example, this includes the declared pregnancy safety requirement, any COVID PPE safety issue, quarantine, or sanitation occupational safety standards. Using information from your employer/organization’s risk management plan, or that of an allied health care organization in your city or region, identify and summarize two functions that commonly overlap in this manner. What common factors lead to the overlap? Does the structure work for the organization you selected? Why or why not?

7. Locate and select an article that discusses performance-based trends in patient safety, risk management, or quality management in health care organizations. Provide a summary of your findings and explain how and why the trends would or would not be effective or successful in your workplace or in an allied health organization in your chosen field.

8. The assignment in this topic requires you to develop a performance management plan for a hypothetical new allied care organization in your field. What regulatory standards will apply to the organization? What accreditation standards? How will these regulations affect the development of your plan, and what measures will you take to ensure the organization is in compliance?

9. Review and summarize the organizational model and structure for your employer/organization or that of an allied health organization in your chosen field. What features of the model work well and contribute to overall performance of the organization? Which features do not work well, or do not work at all? If you had the authority to do so, what elements of your organizational model would you change, and why?