Question

Choose a nursing care process that you believe to be inefficient, ineffective or unsafe. Demonstrate the application of Lean principles to the nursing care process to identify waste and strategies for improvement.

Answer 1

Medical errors or the dosing error or the dosing frequency error as a part of nursing care may be unsafe for the patient as it may cause various unwanted effects.

Hence in whole course of the therapy nursing staff may assure that there should be no such type of ill-practices.

Lean principles are the combination of some operational methods and guidelines that help the nursing staff to create a maximum value for patients at the same time reducing waste and waits. This lean principle focus on the consideration of the ultimate need of the patient by active involvement of the nursing staff with the aim of continuous improvement.

This principle has the ability to identify waste and provides the concrete strategies for the effective nursing care processes.

In this principle there is systematic review of the evidence based practice and then the proper plan is framed in that individual situation and finally the implementation of the specific nursing care plan is carried out. It also focuses on the change of traditional thinking of the organizations and the employees. It focus on the how effectively the existing resources may be used to avoid the waste.

Hence by implementing the philosophies of the above mentioned lean principles the nursing staff will be able to offer effective nursing care with identifying the waste and continuous efforts for the strategic improvement.