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Purpose and Quality Statement: In this section, you will define patient safety and the purpose of a quality plan.

- Explain the purpose of implementing a quality plan. In your explanation, consider how accreditation standards drive an organization’s patient safety and quality initiatives.

- Determine the healthcare organization’s commitment to patient safety and quality. Consider the mission statement and policies of the organization to guide your answer.

- Describe the various stakeholder groups that have a vested interest in the performance-improvement process (e.g., nursing leadership, departmental directors). Consider utilizing an organizational chart to depict these stakeholders.

- Develop a quality statement that outlines the objectives of the quality plan.

Answer 1

Explain the purpose of implementing a quality plan. In your explanation, consider how accreditation standards drive an organization’s patient safety and quality initiatives.

Quality plan is a comprehensive detailed framework of a work plan made for a health care organisation to identify and also to establish good quality improvement activities.

The purpose of a quality plan is to

• Develop new techniques in improving quality care to patients
• Define the roles and responsibilities of each plan focussing on quality improvement
• Monitor the quality of services provided in the organisation
• Evaluate the service rendered
• Resolve the problems even which are unidentified.

Accreditation standards always make an health care organisation follow the standards for providing quality care . It also monitor , evaluate the service rendered by an organisation to improve the quality of care.

• Accreditation standards helps in self assessment of the organisation and establish standards to continously improve the standard of care provided .
• The  trust and confidence of the people in hospitals can be increased upon accreditation as it ensures that the accredited healthcare organization practices and delivers continuous quality services.
• The goal of the accreditation is the hospitals not only perform evidence based clinical practices but also give importance to reasonable necessary efficient care to the people in need of it.
• Accreditation bodies reveals the areas of deficiency in a health care facility and impose optimum standards to maintain professional standards and clinical significance to ensure patient safety and quality of care.

Determine the healthcare organization’s commitment to patient safety and quality. Consider the mission statement and policies of the organization to guide your answer.

Healthcare organisation should be committed towards quality care and improvement in service provided.

• Healthcare organisation should provide evidence based care
• Appoint quality assurance teams in the organisation and allow them to work independently
• Assess the priorities to render a quality care which ensures safety to the patient.
• Prevent the errors caused within the organisation , which may even lead to loss of life .
• Successfully implement quality improvement initiatives
• Monitor and evaluate the quality of the care through conducting audits and a research on the care
• Provide appraisal to staffs regularly to retain good staffs who are committed towards patients care.