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Think about the clinical environment where you currently practice or one you are familiar and analyze opportunities for waste reduction.
Review the IHI resources(http://www.ihi.org/sites/search/pages/results.aspx?k=waste&start1=1 and Hosaapital Inpatient Waste Identification Tool (http://myresource.phoenix.edu/secure/resource/NSG451r2/IHI_Hospital_Inpatient_Waste_Identification_Tool_White_Paper_2011.pdf)to better understand some of the ways you can affect waste as a nurse and a nurse in a leadership role.
Format: Provide a summary of your analysis in the findings column of the table within 200-250 words (single space) communication that you would submit to frontline nurse managers/administrators.
Maintain a scholarly/professional tone - write in third person, so that the focus of the communication is objective and not subjective in presentation (see APA guidelines item #6) correct grammar, spelling, punctuation, sentence structure, APA formatted citations and references, and word limits (20)
Summary Communication
Analysis |
Findings |
Type of Setting (10) Identify the type of setting that you analyzed- one sentence: (e.g. acute, SNF, specific clinical specialty floor or unit, etc. ) |
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Efficiency (50) Describe how the theoretical construct of efficiency was compromised to control or reduce waste (cite current, scholarly source/s) |
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Value to Patients (50) Discuss how improved efficiency may benefit patients (cite current, scholarly source/s) |
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Apply the PDSA process model to improve the waste situation (50) (cite (cite current, scholarly source/s) |
References
Hospital waste management, also called medical waste management,
is a system that handles the segregation,
containment, and disposal of hazardous, hospital-generated and
infectious waste.
The four major types of medical waste are General, Infectious,
Hazardous and Radioactive.The Essential Steps in Waste Management
involve Planning, monitoring, budgeting and training of health care
professional's. The Waste Identification Tool consists of five
modules(a)
Ward Module(b) Patient Care Module
(c) Diagnosis Module
(d) Treatment Module and (e)Patient Module. This helps in the
qualitatively identify opportunities for waste reduction.The
purpose of the Waste Identification Tool is to identify and
categorise potential waste from the perspective of frontline
clinical staff in order to ensure a simple, non-burdensome
process
that frontline staff can conduct.
Healthcare facilities should have a waste management policy and a
waste management plan.Management of Health Care waste management is
an integral part of hospital hygiene and infection control.
Infectious waste
contributes to the risk of nosocomial infections, putting the
health of medical staff and patients at risk.
The four steps of quality improvement in Hospital waste management
include the steps to identify, analyse, develop, and test and
implement hypothesized solution to see if it yields improvement.
Based on the results we can decide whether to abandon, modify, or
implement the solution to improve the health care facilities.