Improving Patient Care Through Government Oversight
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Improving Patient Care Through Government Oversight
Government oversight is very important in ensuring that it has provided a safe and high-quality healthcare and health systems to the people. For example, according to the publications of the MOH it shows how it has recently taken the appropriate initiative of setting effective and quality standards for dialysis water in order to ensure the safety of patients during these procedures. Therefore, these particular approaches serve as an indication of the government's commitment to ensuring there is improved quality in the care that is provided to patients. This essay will also look at a similar instance whereby government monitoring efforts effectively
addressed an ongoing deficiency hence improving the patient care.
Identifying the practice gap
Considering a scenario whereby a healthcare facility has been experiencing a persistent issue of medication errors that come from poorly labeled and packaged drugs. The continuous occurrence of these mistakes, despite the organization’s maximum efforts to educate its staff and come up with safety systems, poses a significant danger to the safety of the patients. Moreover, healthcare facilities could improve their operations is by ensuring the employment of established standards for medication labeling and packaging.
Patient and organizational impacts
Ignoring this practice gap may result to very serious consequences that will affect patients greatly. When patients are given the wrong medication or prescription, there are negative effects that might affect them these may include adverse drug reactions, delays in therapy, or even could lead to death. In addition, to putting the hospital in dangers of facing charges and financial strain, these minor mistakes can also undermine patients' trust in the healthcare institution (Vogus, 2020). Moreover, the reputation of the healthcare organization would be negatively impacted, hence resulting to financial losses due to the penalties that are imposed by the regulations authorities. Consequently, the hospital will not be able to retain the old or even attract new patients and medical workers. furthermore, these would therefore bring a decrease in the quality and efficiency of treatment the facility provides.
The value of government regulation
Government oversight in the health sector significantly improves the healthcare delivery by these healthcare institutions. Government authorities have managed to establish stringent rules and regulations for the packaging and labeling of medications in an effort to reduce the
occurrence of errors in healthcare institutions (Kim, 2020). These measures help to enhance and promote patient safety while simultaneously ensuring that the healthcare organizations are more efficient and cost-effective.
Reference
Vogus, T. J., Gallan, A., Rather, C., El-Manstrly, D., & Strong, A. (2020). Whose experience is it anyway? Toward a constructive engagement of tensions in patient-centered health care.
Journal of Service Management, 31(5), 979-1013.
Kim, D. K. D., & Kreps, G. L. (2020). An Analysis of Government Communication in the United States During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Recommendations for Effective Government Health Risk Communication. World Medical & Health Policy, 12(4).
https://doi.org/10.1002/wmh3.363
وزارة الصحة. (n.d.). Ministry Of Health Saudi Arabia. Ministry Of Health Saudi Arabia.
https://www.moh.gov.sa/en/Ministry/MediaCenter/Publications/Pages/Publications-2019-12-25-001.aspx
Improving Patient Care Through Government Oversight
Student’s Name
Affiliated Institution
Professor’s Name
Course Code: Course Name
Submission Date
Improving Patient Care Through Government Oversight
Government oversight is very important in ensuring that it has provided a safe and high-quality healthcare and health systems to the people. For example, according to the publications of the MOH it shows how it has recently taken the appropriate initiative of setting effective and quality standards for dialysis water in order to ensure the safety of patients during these procedures. Therefore, these particular approaches serve as an indication of the government’s commitment to ensuring there is improved quality in the care that is provided to patients. This essay will also look at a similar instance whereby government monitoring efforts effectively addressed an ongoing deficiency hence improving the patient care.
Identifying the practice gap
Considering a scenario whereby a healthcare facility has been experiencing a persistent issue of medication errors that come from poorly labeled and packaged drugs. The continuous occurrence of these mistakes, despite the organization’s maximum efforts to educate its staff and come up with safety systems, poses a significant danger to the safety of the patients. Moreover, healthcare facilities could improve their operations is by ensuring the employment of established standards for medication labeling and packaging.
Ignorning this practice gap may result to very serious consequences that will affect patients greatly. When patients are given the wrong medication or prescription, there are negative effects that might affect them these may include adversative drug reactions, delays in therapy, or even could lead to death. In addition, to putting the hospital in dangers of facing charges and financial strain, these minor mistakes can also undermine patients' trust in the healthcare institution (Vogus, 2020) Moreover, the reputation of the healthcare organization would be negatively impacted, hence resulting to financial losses due to the penalties that are imposed by the regulations authorities. Consequently, the hospital will not be able to retain the old or even attract new patients and medical workers. furthermore, these would therefore bring a decrease in the quality and efficiency of treatment the facility provides.
The value of government regulation
Government oversight in the health sector significantly improves the health care delivery by these healthcare institutions. Government authorities have managed to establish stringent rules and regulations for the packaging and labeling of medications in an effort to reduce the occurrence of errors in healthcare institutions (Kim, 2020). These measures help to enhance and promote patient safety while simultaneously ensuring that the healthcare organizations are more efficient and cost-effective.
Reference
Vogus, T. J., Gallan, A., Rathert, C., El-Manstrly, D., & Strong, A. (2020). Whose experience is it anyway? Toward a constructive engagement of tensions in patient-centered health care. Journal of Service Management, 31(5), 979-1013.
Kim, D. K. D., & Kreps, G. L. (2020). An Analysis of Government Communication in the United
States During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Recommendations for Effective Government
Health Risk Communication. World Medical & Health Policy, 12(4).
https://doi.org/10.1002/wmh3.363
الصحة. (n.d.). Ministry Of Health Saudi Arabia. Ministry of Health Saudi Arabia.
https://www.moh.gov.sa/en/Ministry/MediaCenter/Publications/Pages/Publications-2019-12-25-001.aspx