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Clinical governance is a systematic approach to maintaining and improving the quality of patient care within the National Health Service (NHS) and private sector health care. Clinical governance became important in health care after the Bristol heart scandal in 1995, during which an anaesthetist, Dr Stephen Bolsin , exposed the high mortality ...
Creative Nursing Management (later named Creative Health Care Management) was originally established to support the implementation of primary nursing, by applying lessons learned from the original implementation at the University Hospital. [2] [3] [4] Creative Nursing Management developed a curriculum to prepare staff nurses to become nursing ...
The implementation of HiAP in South Australia has focused on "developing a process to position HiAP as a core process of government, rather than an approach run by and for the health sector". [2] [14] The South Australian model of HiAP is based on two basic elements: central governance and accountability and a "health lens" analysis process. [14]
Canada has established a research chair that focusses on practical methods for promoting and implementing shared decision-making across the healthcare continuum. [66] Shared decision-making in medicine (SDM) is a process in which both the patient and physician contribute to the medical decision-making process and agree on treatment decisions. [1]
The American Hospital Association's Center for Healthcare Governance (The center) is a membership based organization that is affiliated with the AHA. Founded in 2004 and based in Chicago, Illinois, Center members include more than 500 hospital and health system boards and other organizations that serve the health care sector. [ 1 ]
Team nursing is an effective method of patient care delivery and has been used in most inpatient and outpatient health care settings. [citation needed] Feeling of participation and belonging are facilitated with team members. Work load can be balanced and shared. Division of labour allows members the opportunity to develop leadership skills.
Sociocracy is a theory of governance that seeks to create psychologically safe environments and productive organizations. It draws on the use of consent, rather than majority voting, in discussion and decision-making by people who have a shared goal or work process.
The terms EHR, electronic patient record (EPR) and electronic medical record (EMR) have often been used interchangeably, but "subtle" differences exist. [6] The electronic health record (EHR) is a more longitudinal collection of the electronic health information of individual patients or populations.