Discuss the quality care approach used in an organization to improve patient safety and patient outcomes. Why was the quality model selected and how does it align to the organization's mission?
In the book, Professionalism in Health Care: A Primer for Career Success, the author, Sherry Makely, outlines quality improvement goals: eliminating adverse effects, reducing waste and unnecessary expense, avoiding costly hospital readmissions, and preventing undesirable outcomes that place patients at risk. Provide an example of a quality improvement initiative that can be proposed in a health care organization. Describe how the initiative would work to achieve the goals associated with quality improvement.