How To Ensure Safe Quality Patient Care. Necessary resources for high quality care to be provided. Holistic care to promote and improve safety outcomes in multicultural and diverse settings.
The seven ways to improve quality and safety cover the following. 1 Patient safety is an important aspect of health care quality and a key priority for ODPHP. Support for strong leadership and compassionate care o Placing the quality of patient care especially patient safety above all other aims o Engaging empowering and hearing patients and carers at all times o Importance of analysing and understanding data and information on performance in relation to a broad spectrum of quality indicators.
Established and approved evidence-based practices while critical components of ensuring patient safety and quality of care are only effective if they are adopted.
Adoption includes educating and training frontline clinicians and healthcare workers engaging patients and collaborating with clinician leadership to drive best practices adoption. Patient safety is the cornerstone of high-quality health care. Patient safety was also defined by the Institute of Medicine 2001 as the prevention of harm to patients. Safety issues need to be addressed in nursing curricula in order to.