NRS 451 Waste Discussion

NRS 451 Waste Discussion

NRS 451 Waste Discussion

Waste

Reducing and eliminating waste is essential to managing
resources. Waste in health care can take many forms: materials, unneeded
transport of people or items from one place to another, inventories, wait
times, employees working on processes that are not valuable to the customer,
arduous processes, re-work due to incompetence or lack of organization, and
incorrect staff staffing levels.

The Institute for Health Improvement (IHI) developed a
Hospital Inpatient Waste Identification tool.

Review the IHI resources to better understand some of the
ways you can affect waste as a nurse and nurse leader.

FIRST MESSAGE #1

REIMBURSEMENT SYSTEMS

Think about how profits are realized in varying
reimbursement systems (cost-based vs. prospective vs value-based). How can this
impact how nursing care is planned and delivered?

FIRST MESSAGE #2

RESOURCES AND IOM

How does managing resources relate to the IOM report on
transforming the work environment of nurses?

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Waste (or wastes) are unwanted or unusable materials. Waste is any substance which is discarded after primary use, or is worthless, defective and of no use. A by-product by contrast is a joint product of relatively minor economic value. A waste product may become a by-product, joint product or resource through an invention that raises a waste product’s value above zero.

Examples include municipal solid waste (household trash/refuse), hazardous waste, wastewater (such as sewage, which contains bodily wastes (feces and urine) and surface runoff), radioactive waste, and others.

What constitutes waste depends on the eye of the beholder; one person’s waste can be a resource for another person.[1] Though waste is a physical object, its generation is a physical and psychological process.[1] In the United States, people who work with waste professionally use four terms – trash, garbage, refuse, and rubbish; trash is dry, garbage is wet, refuse is both, and rubbish is refuse plus construction and demolition debris.[2] The definitions used by various agencies are as below.

United Nations Environment Program
According to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal of 1989, Art. 2(1), “‘Wastes’ are substance or objects, which are disposed of or are intended to be disposed of or are required to be disposed of by the provisions of national law”.[3]

United Nations Statistics Division
The UNSD Glossary of Environment Statistics[4] describes waste as “materials that are not prime products (that is, products produced for the market) for which the generator has no further use in terms of his/her own purposes of production, transformation or consumption, and of which he/she wants to dispose. Wastes may be generated during the extraction of raw materials, the processing of raw materials into intermediate and final products, the consumption of final products, and other human activities. Residuals recycled or reused at the place of generation are excluded.”