Organizational Functions, Processes, and Behaviors Support and Outcome Measures  NURS FPX 6212 Assessment 3 Outcome Measures, Issues, and Opportunities

Organizational Functions, Processes, and Behaviors Support and Outcome Measures 

The organization’s outcome measures include the frequency of unsafe surgical procedures, postoperative complications, patient readmission, surgical site infections, and patient satisfaction. These outcome measures enable the organization to evaluate the quality of care and the competency of the professionals (Hannawa et al., 2022). Administrators and professionals must timely evaluate and modify their strategies to improve decision-making and assess performance, such as collective organizational goals that help the organization improve standards of care, streamline workflow, and enhance safety protocols that encourage task execution. 

These organizational functions and processes have various positive and negative effects on outcome measures, such as safety protocols, which can help streamline processes and reduce errors, surgical infection, and postoperative risk. At the same time, inter-professional collaboration fosters effective communication, leading to better-coordinated care and overall cultural performance improvement. Open communication, positive interaction, and evidence-based care create a supportive environment that helps enhance communication, develop trust, and increase overall engagement in care (Kwame & Petrucka, 2021).

NURS FPX 6212 Assessment 3 Outcome Measures, Issues, and Opportunities

The negative effect on the outcome measures is based on the influx of poorly developed processes that lead to unsafe surgical procedures, a higher readmission rate, and more resource allocation in reimbursement and readmission management. Furthermore, the communication issues and lack of empathy lead to compromised safety and erode trust, negatively affecting the patient’s satisfaction. Studies have highlighted that ineffective communication, unsupportive environments, and complex processes can lead to increased medical errors and affect patient-provider relationships (Tiwary et al., 2019). 

Organizational and structural changes such as hygiene safety protocols, implementing comprehensive learning modules to manage the staff effectively, implementing regulatory standards, and open communication across all the departments can help balance the positive and negative outcomes. Strong leadership that can control employee work stress, lower the risk of infection, and give staff members more responsibility for providing safe procedures achieves these quality improvement outcomes (Irshad et al., 2021). It is based on the assumption that practical organizational function, positive behaviors such as inter-professional collaboration, and evidence-based practices can help improve workflow, improve clinical outcomes, and create positive patient experiences. Effective processes reduce unsafe behaviors, streamline administrative processes, enhance patient satisfaction, and improve treatment adherence and overall health outcomes. 

 Quality and Safety Outcomes and Measures

Unsafe surgical care procedures were the quality and safety outcomes that the gap analysis identified. It involves recognizing the key indicators that reflect the effectiveness and safety of patient care. For improvement in the surgical site infection rate, studies have suggested using alcohol-based antibiotics, antiseptics, and other preoperative sanitized protocol measures to provide better quality preoperative strategies that can reduce the risk of infection on the surgical site as well as reduce the risk of postoperative complications (Ling et al., 2019). Similarly, other studies have suggested optimizing the preoperative strategies and diligence during surgery regarding blood loss, operating time, and other complications while being vigilant in implementing infection control practices can help reduce the postoperative risk (Dharap et al., 2022).

Effective management of health conditions at home through patient education, medical record consolidation, proper discharge planning, and adequate follow-ups can lead to minimized readmission rates (Pugh, et al., 2021), thus increasing the overall patient satisfaction rate. Furthmore, providing quality and safe care without negligence and improving patient experiences can overall impact patient satifaction levels. The data gathered about these quality and safety outcomes and measures helps in meaningful evaluation, providing a better analysis associated with detailed. The quality of the data can be assessed by its reliability and accuracy. Along with the optimization of the preoperative measures, improving the surgical site to reduce the infection rate can further lead to a decrease in readmissions and higher patient satisfaction. 

Performance Issues or Opportunities 

Unsafe surgical care procedures