Topic: Deliverable 2 – Using Innovation to Improve Care
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Details: Competency
Analyze an innovation that led to a redesigned process or product
Scenario
After recently graduating with a Bachelor of Science (BSN) in Nursing, you were promoted to Clinical Educator for your Unit. The Nurse Manager asked for your help completing an innovative practice analysis to assist the organization with determining future needs for technology to lead innovation and future service for the local community. The title for this renewed drive for innovation in practice excellence is named, “Time for the Future is Now.”
Organizational characteristics:
92-bed full-service, not-for-profit regional hospital
600 employees, 120 of which are active and consulting physicians
The mission is simple: improve the health, lives, and well-being of the people in the community we serve.
Philosophy: we service a rural community as if we were in a suburban setting
Unique services currently offered include:
A team approach to Cancer Care with an onsite multidisciplinary rounding clinical served by virtual assistants
Onsite Adult Care with a focus on Adult Day Care and Overnight Respite (currently largest cost center)
Genetics Counseling featuring a personalized approach to drug therapies provided via virtual visits by doctors, masters prepared nurse genetic counselors, and 24-hour access to the side effect and drug effectiveness monitoring with a password protected laboratory portal
Virtual Primary Care offered from 7 am-11 pm with a fee of $25.00 per visit for routine health services
Community Demographics:
Rural setting current population approximately 30,000 with 97% Caucasian, 2% African American and 1% Hispanic
60.1% of residents are retired
Average age = 64.2 years
High prevalence of diabetes, heart disease, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
89% of residents own and live in their home; a single-family residence
The average yearly income is $34,000.00
Instructions
Listed below are two types of innovative healthcare services under consideration for purchase and integration in this organization. Complete an analysis of the two types of innovation under consideration for purchase. The primary objective is to select the innovation to serve the needs of the local community best.
Virtual Sitter Service (currently contract with a local employment agency to provide sitter services)
Tele-Wound Consulting Service (currently contract with local home health agency to provide nurses certified in wound care)
Write your analysis report of the two innovations in a Word document, including the following:
Recommendation of innovation as the first or second selection for purchase with a detailed explanation of the rationale for choice including:
One resource from the literature supporting the choice
Identify immediate impacts on the organization and community served
Cost, training, patient outcomes, employee satisfaction, patient satisfaction
Explain projected impacts to organization and community served
Sustainability, maintenance, continued training, increased services for the community
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