HCA 450 Quality in Health Care Week 6 Discussion

HCA 450 Quality in Health Care

Week 6 Discussion

DQ2 In the book, Professionalism in Health Care: A Primer for Career Success, the author, Sherry Makely, outlines quality improvement goals: eliminating adverse effects, reducing waste and unnecessary expense, avoiding costly hospital readmissions, and preventing undesirable outcomes that place patients at risk. Provide an example of a quality improvement initiative that can be proposed in a health care organization. Describe how the initiative would work to achieve the goals associated with quality improvement.

Assignment 2:

Each chapter in Professionalism in Health Care: A Primer for Career Success presents a Case Study following the career of Carla, a medical assistant. Reread each of the six Case Studies and write a short (two to three pages) summary of Carla’s growth as medical assistant. Included in your summary should be a critique of the Case Studies for both accuracy and effectiveness. In your summary/critique, also comment on the impact unprofessional behaviors have on communication, group dynamic, morale, and patient outcomes.