Quality and Safety Gap Analysis (GRADED A+ Assessment 1) NURS-FPX6212: Health Care Quality Safety Management

1 Quality and Safety Gap Analysis Student ’s Name Capella University NURS -FPX6212 : Health Care Quality Safety Management Instructor Date 2 Quality and Safety Gap Analysis Quality and safety are among the many significant goals of the interprofessional health care provider team. The aim of quality and safe care is to attain the best possible outcomes. Quality care focuses on providing the appropriate and effective care to the right client or patient and at the appropriate time. Patient safet y focuses on protecting the patients seeking care from any harm that is associated with the healthcare services given. While quality and safety are the focus of every healthcare facility and organization, sometimes this is not fully achieved. In other words, healthcare organizations may experience systemic problems that have negative impacts on quality and safety outcomes. In this assessment, a systemic problem affecting my organization and practice setting is identified and discussed. This includes as pects such as practice changes that need to be implemented to bridge the gap and enhance quality and safety outcomes among others. Systemic Problem related to Adverse Quality and Safety Outcomes The systemic problem identified to be affecting quality and s afety outcomes in the organization is patient falls. The organization has witnessed an increase in patient falls over the past couple of months, which is worrying. It is worth noting that patient falls is among the common and significant systemic problems affecting healthcare organizations. It is reported that approximately 700,000 to a million patient falls do occur in healthcare facilities in the United States. Notably, approximately 2% of the hospitalized patients do experience a fall at least one time d uring their hospital stay ( LeLaurin & Shorr, 2019) . This shows how falls affects a significant part of patient population in hospitals. These falls result in many negative impacts on the patients, providers and the healthcare organizations. Example of the impacts on patients include injuries, increased hospital stay and cost and sometimes, even death. It is reported that