Question

How to write Problem Statement draft for a healthcare topic

Answer 1

A problem statement is a statement where one or two sentences that identifies and briefly explains a situation, problem, or issue that a quality improvement team may be asking to address. The health problem is defined as the gap that occurs between an acceptable or desirable health status and the current status. After getting included in a Project Charter,a problem statement provides a quality improvement team with an fluent expression of what they are setting to achieve.Although, there is need to understand difference between the symptoms of a problem and an actual problem. Symptoms are used to know that there is a problem. They are also the shadows of underlying problems,that is an evidence by which a
problem affects staff and makes itself known. But in other terms symptom is not a problem, but the
outcome of an actual problem. A problem is defined as the gap between the existing state and the
desired state of a process.Clinical problems are related to topics that provide clinicians and clinical leaders opportunities to enhance the patient's care. Evaluation and packaging new approaches that promote safe clinical care delivery and products for clinical education and leadership can be done through naming a problem.

Certain tips that can be used for writing a Problem Statement are:

• Look into the problem, but not the solutions.
• Focus only onto one problem.
• Keep the statement short upto one or two sentences.
• Be sure that you can distinguish between symptoms and problems.