30 Jul Provide an example of something in your current facility that is increasing the cost of care in your organization. How is it being controlled, or how could it be controlled? Make sure to provide some ideas of what could be done better to improve care and outcomes.
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Patient Safety and Cost
Collaboration Café
Lisa Anderson is a 74-year-old female with a history of osteoporosis. She is a widow and lives alone in a two-story home. Mrs. Anderson is retired and depends on her Social Security income. She takes pride in making all her own food from scratch. While she is walking at the hospital today, Mrs. Anderson falls and fractures her left hip. She is transported to the OR for immediate surgery.
Patient falls are a serious problem in hospitals, resulting in substantial morbidity, mortality, increased length of stay, and higher costs. It is estimated that high hospitalization rates in healthcare organizations result from patient falls. Fall rates in acute-care hospitals have been measured between 2.2 and 7 falls per 1,000 admissions. Injuries occur in approximately 30% of falls, and severe injuries occur in 4% to 6% of falls. Patient falls increase the cost of patient care. It was found that patients who fell and were injured as a result of a fall had $4,233 higher charges and a length of stay (LOS) of 12.3 days.
Provide an example of something in your current facility that is increasing the cost of care in your organization. How is it being controlled, or how could it be controlled? Make sure to provide some ideas of what could be done better to improve care and outcomes.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Your instructor will be monitoring the Collaboration Café but not participating as this is your opportunity to give and receive feedback from your peers. The Collaboration Café is graded this week (50 points). There are no scholarly references required in this discussion format. Please see the guidelines and grading rubric.
The initial posting must meet the following expectations:
• Address the TD question in a thorough, substantive manner.
o Demonstrate application of scholarly resources.
Provide relevant evidence of two scholarly resources in the initial post, clearly stating how the evidence informed or changed professional or academic decisions.
One scholarly resource must be from a nursing peer-reviewed journal.
o Demonstrate application of course knowledge.
Demonstrate the ability to analyze, synthesize, and/or apply principles and concepts learned in the course lesson and outside readings and relate them to real-life, professional situations.
Compare concepts and principles from the weekly lesson with personal experience as it applies to the practice setting.
• Include correct spelling, grammar, punctuation, syntax, and sentence and paragraph structure.
• Include a minimum of two scholarly sources, current within five years, to support information presented.
o Scholarly sources required for the TD must be sources that are separate from course-related sources and/or reading assignments.
o If course-related sources or readings are used as a source in the TD, they must be in addition to the required scholarly sources for the discussion and must be cited following the current APA guidelines.
o If used as a source in the assignment, course-related readings must meet the criteria for scholarly work: current within five years.
o Sources older than five years may not be used without the permission of the course professor.
o Correct APA format for citing and referencing sources is applied.
