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NURS-FPX6222 Healthcare Safety and Quality Management

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Outcome Measures, Issues, and Opportunities Presentation

I’m Sharanpreet. In this presentation, I’ll outline the outcome measures, issues,, and opportunities.

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• Key Quality and Safety Outcomes

Parents’ and children’s key quality and safety outcomes

A good level of communication within the health team is essential to supporting patient safety and health team performance. The problem of communication failure, especially during the process of handoff, is one of the most common causes of errors (Singh et al., 2026). Indicators related to quality and safety, including the frequency of medication errors, patient satisfaction levels, rates of hospital readmission, and sentinel events, are key elements used in performance assessment in healthcare organizations. Lack of effective communication, especially in the case of transition in care, results from inconsistencies. During transition in care, it becomes possible to use a structured communication tool, such as situation, background, assessment, and recommendation (SBAR), for facilitating communication among clinicians (Singh et al., 2026). Communication will ensure not only improved patient outcomes but also satisfaction, trust, and accreditation requirements.

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• Systemic Problem in the Organization

The primary issue with communication in this organization is the lack of communication when transferring care between health professionals during transfers between care settings. Lack of communication could lead to the loss of valuable patient information regarding their risk of falling, thus putting their health at risk (Singh et al., 2026). When nurses, doctors, and other employees work in different departments, they do not use the SBAR system because of various reasons, including a lack of psychological safety in the working environment, a lack of communication training, a lack of staff members, and the burden of stress before handing over, resulting in less willingness to communicate. Therefore, interprofessional working and patient information sharing will begin to be difficult. This contributes to treatment errors, readmissions, sentinel events, and complaints from the patients. If not, it will hurt the organizational outcomes due to staff burnout and low morale.

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• Analysis of Organizational Functions, Processes, and Behaviors

High-performing health care organizations are structured and have well-established roles, processes, and behaviors that continually improve patient safety and health care outcomes. Structured communication (SBAR) will be used to ensure consistency, clarity, and completeness of communication in class, and all patients will be treated after the patient. A rational analysis exists and is consistent; they explain findings for cases that do not apply; they explain findings for cases that apply; They have an interprofessional team of leadership and front-line staff who are aware of the case or process they are analyzing; There is a rational analysis; There is information from relevant literature (Singh et al., 2026). Such organizations are likely to have leaders with transformational leadership styles. Transformational leaders are transparent, engage all in decision-making, and create a safe work culture for employees. These attitudes can help to foster a sense of unity, honesty, and a positive safety culture.

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• Knowledge Gaps and Areas of Uncertainty

While there is some good in this organization as it stands, there are a lot of questions and unclear issues about the organization’s structure. Firstly, in organizations, there is no standardization of the transition process and training around it, as seen in the creation of such risks (Singh et al., 2026). In addition, it’s unclear if the current handoffs are of high quality and effective. At this stage, those statements can be quite challenging because of a scarcity of data on this topic. A large number of studies also exist on organizational culture and hierarchy as potential barriers to good communication and escalation of patient safety incident concerns. To create a more sustainable way of improving workflow, more in-depth research is needed to understand the reasons for the ineffectiveness of workflow and the meaning and perception given to the “communication” between disciplines by the workers.

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• Impact of Organizational Functions, Processes, and Behaviors

The outcome indicators will be influenced by organizational activities, operations, and behaviors, as this will impact the quality and safety of care delivery. Structured and standardized communication processes such as SBAR communication make a difference; it decreases medication errors, sentinel events, patient satisfaction, and readmissions. Quality care and safety in a healthcare environment are also dependent on the ratio of nurses to patients (Carousel, 2024). Furthermore, an interdisciplinary approach and leadership behavior lead to effective interdisciplinary coordination and no delay in providing care. Disjointed operations, hierarchy in communications, and lack of training, which cause these inconsistencies, cannot ensure consistent practices and avert adverse patient safety events.

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• Assumptions Underlying the Determination

The reasons for these decisions are that the communication, which is an essential component of a patient’s safety, is greatly influenced by the use of standardized protocols, and the process of providing care is also greatly influenced. The first assumption is that there is a commitment from the leaders to put into action these intervention strategies. There will be enough number of staff members as well as suitable training facilities to facilitate the execution of improvement actions. Further, Singh et al. (2026) recommend that a successful intervention would entail a team approach in reviewing cases, a robust communication infrastructure, and engagement of other professions in diagnosis. Finally, the reliability of outcome measures will be as good as that of clinicians, and enhanced communication.

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• Quality and Safety Outcomes and Associated Measures

Indicators that can be considered measures of quality and safety within an organization in terms of health care services may include the frequency of medication errors, hospital-acquired infections, patient satisfaction, sentinel incidents, patient falls, and readmissions. These can be captured in incident reporting, electronic health records (EHRs), patient satisfaction surveys, audits, and quality dashboards. Furthermore, by coordinating care across transitions, there are fewer opportunities for errors to occur as it helps to ensure that patient care is continuous, information is passed on accurately, and treatment strategies are aligned with patients’ needs and preferences (Singh et al., 2026). Communication (including use of the SBAR model) and documentation accuracy and completeness are measures of the effectiveness of care transitions. Staff indicators such as turnover, staff burnout, and attendance at communication training programs are other indicators for assessment.

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• Evaluation of Data Quality

The accuracy of reporting, the documentation of the data, and safety culture will affect the quality of data gathered. To implement EHR, there are so many options, but to measure the effectiveness of EHR is relatively a complex process which involves technical, organizational, and human factors (Puteri & Lira, 2025). While EHRs do help to enhance data accuracy, there is a possibility that they can be underreported or that the data is inconsistent. In addition, employees are unlikely to report cases of poor communication and near-miss situations out of fear of retribution or because of a lack of psychological safety, that result in incomplete datasets. Lastly, organizations can measure the same communication outcomes in different ways, meaning that their definition and focus on these specific communication-related measures can be different. Therefore, actions that hospitals take offer clues to how well they are doing on issues of safety and quality, but the potential for different interpretations of the factual data should be considered.

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• Performance Issues and Opportunities in Organizational Functions and Processes

Lack of consistency in terms of communication procedures, as well as transfer and handoffs of patients, are the main causes of poor performance within the organization. When not consistently implemented throughout the whole organization, standardized SBAR will cause variations in how the clinical information is communicated between departments and shifts, resulting in medication errors, missed treatments, and incomplete documentation. Other issues that affect organizational performance are also understaffing, hurried shift changeovers, and lack of continuous training on communication, which hurt patient safety. Several studies have shown that the nurse-to-patient ratio has been shown to significantly impact patient mortality, infection rates, errors, re-hospitalization, and patient satisfaction (Carousel, 2024). But there are opportunities to improve organizational performance through the use of standardized communication, integration of SBAR into EHRs, and real-time quality dashboards. Competency-based training programmes and accountability will further support in driving up performance.

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• Organizational Processes and Care Delivery Gaps

Cares were delivered with some gaps, such as during patient transfers, during communications among the different levels of care, and when patients were discharged from the hospitals. Most times, the cause of falls is due to system issues, poor communication, and less situational awareness (Singh et al., 2026). This makes patients lose continuity of their medical care, as well as making it more probable that they may experience medication mistakes, readmission to hospitals, among others. This impacts the patient’s continuity of care, which leads to other adverse outcomes, including medication administration errors, readmissions, and sentinel events. Apart from the problems mentioned above, one has to face problems in documentation and intra-departmental non-coordination, too. There are some solutions related to leadership that include determining staffing issues, workflow management, optimization of EHR usability, and effective handoff procedures (Singh et al., 2026). Furthermore, better interprofessional working and easier access to patient records via health information systems can help to streamline care processes.

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• Organizational Behaviors and Safety Culture Opportunities

The organization’s behaviors can have a significant impact on the communication process in the health care environment. The fear of possible legal consequences, fear of criticism from peers, negative attitude towards mistake reporting, insufficient time, and complex process of mistake reporting are some of the possible reasons for underreporting (Montgomery et al., 2025). In addition, a low level of psychological safety can also prevent effective communication since an employee might be afraid to get punished or criticized because of the mistake he or she made during the process of reporting. Limited and unreliable use of communication tools and resistance to change are the factors preventing efficient teamwork and coordination. There are a lot of ways to create a strong safety culture: establishing a strong sense of psychological safety, effective communication at various levels, and transformational leadership. The uniform concept of how to do Joint Commission work will also help to view each error as a chance to improve, rather than a sign of failure (Singh et al., 2026). A more reliable patient care delivery process is facilitated by creating a non-punitive reporting and learning culture.

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• Knowledge Gaps and Areas of Uncertainty

Certainly, there are some aspects of uncertainty and gaps in knowledge that inhibit the capacity to have a full grasp of the performance issues with respect to communication within the organization. The first is that there is a lack of knowledge regarding the readiness and willingness of staff to be able to use the communication channels fully. Second, there is also a seeming variance in handover processes due to the limited number of audits the organisation has carried out, as well as the lack of a standardised approach to documentation procedures. A holistic approach that takes into account the communication process during handover, the environment, the systems in place, and the abilities of nurses is needed to minimize nursing handover errors (Yeom et al., 2026). Moreover, there is a limited understanding of the association between organizational culture, management, psychological safety, and communication and error reporting processes. It is unclear whether any previous efforts in addressing gaps in communication through the quality initiatives have been effective. There is still a great deal to be done to assess the inefficiencies of the workflow, staff perceptions, and interprofessional collaboration problems.

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• Change Strategy for Measuring Patient Care and Sharing Knowledge

For measuring the outcomes of care consistently within an organisation and for knowledge sharing, a systematic approach towards change has to be put in place. The change management model of Kurt Lewin is one of the key models in organizational change, as it is a process of organized change managed in a certain way (Majka, 2024). This starts with the risk assessment of communication risk to safety, staff awareness, and outcomes of medication errors, readmissions, and sentinel events. Secondly, there is the adoption of a consistent way of communication, e.g., SBAR, staff training. Real-time monitoring systems, which hold people accountable, are used to measure performance. Lastly, there are ongoing feedback systems to promote knowledge sharing and leadership systems to sustain success in measuring patient care and organisational learning.

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• Strategy for Measuring Patient Care and Sharing Knowledge

The use of the change management model developed by Lewin as a framework for a structured improvement process can be used to measure patient care outcomes and to spread knowledge of effective patient care. Information sharing with staff in the unfreeze step includes communication issues, linked to medicines, re-admission, and sentinel events. At the point of change, similar communication skills (SBAR and others) and simulations are used in all departments and competency-based, and through the EHR system. At this stage, new processes begin to be used, new behaviors emerge, and the organization starts to begin to see the outcomes of its work (Majka, 2024). The new practices are embedded in the organisation’s policy during the refreezing phase, and the audit, performance feedback, and reiteration of the educational activities strengthen the new practices.

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• Opportunities for Interprofessional Collaboration

The multidisciplinary health workforce is a very critical component of being able to provide effective communication, safety, and coordination in the provision of services. Interdisciplinary rounds are one way in which this aspect could be achieved. In this instance, the health professionals (nurses, doctors, and pharmacists) discuss the patient care plans and outcomes. The different team members had collaborated since they were engaging in effective and efficient communication and sharing important patient information, which ensured that they would deliver quality patient care results (Katantha et al., 2025). Interprofessional education can be delivered via simulation-based education, where multiple health care professionals are trained to effectively communicate using the SBAR communication model in different situations. Use of the quality dashboard in real time enables each discipline to track its performance and plan the necessary interventions. This will foster respect, accountability, and trust, resulting in improved care for patients, care coordination, and the health organization’s safety culture.

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• Conclusion

Poor communication at handoffs is a major issue that impacts healthcare organizations’ patient safety, quality of care delivered, and efficiency. Some of the main issues in the practice area include a lack of consistent communication practices, an absence of standardized communication practices, and organizational factors that make patients more vulnerable to medication errors, delayed care, and readmissions. SBAR communication practice, enhanced interprofessional working, and Lewin’s change management model help to address this. Consistent measurement of patients’ outcomes and knowledge dissemination will enhance change. Improvement in both areas will positively impact patients’ results, the efficiency of the employees, as well as long-term organizational performance.