Efforts Of Health Professionals In Ensuring Quality And Safe Health

Question: Discuss about the Efforts Of Health Professionals In Ensuring Quality And Safe Health Care Services And Surgical Procedures In Health Facilities. Answer: Literature review of the topic From the studies which were carried out, the health professional is putting in a lot of efforts in ensuring better services delivery. Diversity and equality journal focuses on topics such as gender, culture, healthcare provision, disability, and sexual orientation among many others. The topic of efforts of health care professionals to provide quality and safe health care services has been widely covered (Acton, 2014, p. 456). There are major challenges which face the provision of quality services in health in health facilities which in turn results to delivery of poor surgical procedures, these challenges they are mainly as a result of the changes in disease patterns and demographics as the peoples ages, high cost of medical services and products ,problem of supply of health workforce ,the problem on how to balance the private and public sectors in the provision of health services and the role which urban planning plays in creating sustainable and healthy environment (Armstrong, 2011, p. 890).. Quality in primary care is journal which information mainly about quality improvement in provision of health services, clinical governance which in turn can improve the services and surgical procedures which are being offered in the facility (Braithwaite, 2013, p. 347). The journal is mainly concerned with the quality and quality improvement in the primary care and other prehospital care centers. The journal has a very strong support all over the world from other disciplines which are related to the healthcare provider which includes medicine and other social sciences. Improving safety and quality by the health professional focusing on the care of consumers and patient is a discussion paper journal which was drafted and published in 2010 mainly for the public consultations. Patient-centred care is the health care which is responsive to and respectful of needs, preferences, and values of consumers and patients there are a wide dimensions of patient centred care which they include physical comfort of the patients, the emotional support which the patients need, better care coordination, continuity and transition and respect of the patient (Duguid, 2016, p. 587). This article shows that the measure of the efforts which the health professionals have put in place to ensure that there is better provision of services and surgical procedures. It is well demonstrated in this journal that the patient care experience is improved by patient-centred care and it also provides public respect and trust towards the services which are being offered by the health facilities, when administrators of health care facilities, providers, families, and patients work together in partnership, the standards and quality of healthcare rises, the cost of health care provision decreases and the satisfaction of the provider increases and the patient care is improved. Patient centred care also improves the business metrics of the health facility such the finances, market, quality, and safety (Farrell, 2017, p. 680). National safety and quality health services standards is a health journal which was endorsed by the government of Australia in September 2011.this article defines the roles which every party in the healthcare facility plays to ensure that the services and surgical procedures which are carried out are up to the standards (Fraser, 2016, p. 789).. The clinical workforce is comprised of the healthcare professionals play an essential role to ensure that the healthcare services which they provide are better each and every day. When the health care professionals participate in the organizational processes, improvement initiatives and they are trained in line with the roles and services which they are accountable (Governance, 2011, p. 246). The professionals can improve the quality of the services and surgical procedures in their health facilities by understanding their wider responsibility for quality and safety in the provision of services, by the professionals following the safety and quality procedures as per the standards which are set by the relevant authorities and by participating in the review of the performance procedures of the individual professional (Health, 2012, p. 345). When the healthcare professional forms partnership with carers and patients the patients care experience improves and also the safety system of the facility, planning of the organizational process and the quality of training and quality initiative also improves (Health, 2012, p. 345). The role of the non-clinical professionals is equally very important in ensuring provision of better services it is usually consisted of volunteers or a group of individuals who are paid to ensure proper implementation of safety systems and carry out trainings and campaigns which enables on to be informed of the healthcare facility policies and plans which are in place in ensuring that the patients receive better services (Healy, 2015, p. 543). Patients and carers these two parties play an import role to ensure that safe and better health care services are provided, patients and carers they are always involved in the decision making which concerns their own health for instance the patients who have to undergo surgery they should be informed about the surgery and they will be required to sign a form which shows they are ready and accepts the operation to take place this is to ensure that their rights in health care providers are not interfered with (Long, 2013, p. 478). Clinical workforce.it refers to all parties who are involved in the day to day running of the clinic which ensures that patients are able to get better and quality services which will improve their health conditions (OECD, 2016, p. 345). Search strategy An online search was conducted on various databases which were containing information which was related to the topic of research such as the primary health care providers and diversities in quality and safety health care services (Research, 2014, p. 702). The search strategy included searching the key concepts in the research topic such as; safety, quality, clinical workforce, healthcare, health care service and patient healthcare experience. The search was limited to materials which were published in the last eight years and the ones which were written only in English. After the search 400 materials which were containing relevant information were found but after the removal of the irrelevant and depletes 17 relevant articles remained which we analysed into details (Willis, 2014, p. 639). General critical review of the evidence According to the journals which were studied it showed that there are a lot of implementations which are being put in place by to ensure that the services which are being provided in the healthcare facilities meet the standard which is set out by the bodies in charge of health care provision. Health care safety and quality are receiving international attention the central function of the health care system (jones, 2014, p. 400). This shows a number of factors which have resulted into this they include the technical complication of the modern health care, the population of patients who need to benefit from the healthcare innervations and the complexity of the system from which the health care is provided (maclon, 2012, p. 247). Particular issues which are affecting the quality of the services which are offered in the facilities are the ones which have contributed to the innervations to be put in place so as to improve the situation and the same time to try and improve the patient healthcare experience which have deteriorated over time due to the poor services and surgical procedures which are delivered in the healthcare facilities (mavis, 2012). The responding and understanding to the variations in the practices of clinical healthcare and the safety of the patients have also contributed to the poor services which are being offered in the facilities. Health care professionals strengthen the capacity of patients and consumers of playing an informed role which focuses on the provision of information which promotes the health care system learning and which promotes the public confidence on the services which are being offered. The wide focus which have been witnessed with the health care professionals on improving the quality of services which are being offered may be attributed to a number of factors such as the unexplained variations in the patterns of treatments across a range of conditions, the rise in the cost of healthcare and the ongoing media reports about the poor safety and quality services which are being offered in the facilities. Quality healthcare refers to the degree through which individuals or a group of people increases the chances of the result of the expected outcome are informed of the professional knowledge.it is the range of interactions that the health care providers have with the patients which include the patients' health plans which they get from the medics and another hospital. Staff (Healy, 2015, p. 356). Strengths and limitations of the evidence Efforts of the healthcare professionals to improve the quality and safety of services which are offered in the healthcare care facilities have a range of benefits such as improving the patient healthcare experience, improvement of the public confidence to the services which are being offered in the healthcare facilities through that some members of the public can volunteer themselves to be ambassador of initiatives which are started by the professionals so as to engage the public on how to improve the services which are being delivered, through the efforts of the professionals it has been made possible for families, patients, and the healthcare professionals to work together so as to provide quality services, proper and quality training among the professionals and non-professionals have been carried out to ensure that all the parties in the healthcare facilities are working towards provision of high quality and safe services, through the efforts which have been put in place by the cl inical professionals it has resulted to be having safe safety system which has made the confidence of the patients who come to search for services in the facilities to increase and also there has resulted to a smooth running on the organisation processes since all the workforce in the clinics are working towards achieving their goal of provision of high-quality services (Long, 2013, p. 768). There were also limitations which were noted form the professionals of healthcare trying to emphasize the provision of high-quality services such as the financial constraints which most of the facilities are undergoing cannot allow them to implement the policies which they have come up with because most of those policies which were created were to result in most of the rights of patients being violated (Fraser, 2016, p. 223). Through that many of the health professionals were involving the patients in running some of the activities of the facility without considering their conditions this result in the bodies which are responsible for the safety of the patients to rebuke the licence of the professionals thus slowing down activities in the healthcare facility and also lowering the morale of the other professionals who may be willing to provide quality and safe health care services (Braithwaite, 2013, p. 121). Relevance and impacts of the findings on the topic From the findings in the journals and other sources where the efforts of the professionals to provide high quality services which meets the expectations of the patients the efforts need to get more support from the relevant bodies who are in charge of provision of healthcare services to the patients this can be achieved by financing the healthcare facilities so as to enable them to implement the policies which can enable them to achieve their goals of providing quality services (Fraser, 2016, p. 223).. Clinical governance contributes greatly on how the services are being delivered in the facility. According to the topic of research, the clinical management should ensure that the way clinics are being managed does not affect the efforts of the healthcare professional to provide quality and safe services to the patients. Through understanding the patient needs and preferences and their values as explained in the Improving safety and quality journal the healthcare workforce can be in a position to consider the patients while they are making their new policies which can enable them to be in a position of providing quality and safe healthcare services as pointed out by the bodies which are in charge of the provision of healthcare. Once the needs and values of the patients are observed and ensured that there is no right of the patient is violated then the patient healthcare will increase due to the quality healthcare offered. References Acton, Q. A., 2014. Issues in Quality in Healthcare and Quality of Life: 2012 Edition. London: ScholarlyEditions. Armstrong, B. K., 2011. The final report of the Taskforce on Quality in Australian Health Care. 2md ed. New York: Australian Health Ministers' Advisory Council. Braithwaite, P. J., 2013. 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