DISCUSSION QUESTIONS FOR HEALTHCARE HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT.
ONE RESOURCE NEEDED FOR PART ONE AND ONE RESOURCE NEEDED FOR PART TWO.
Q&A PART I
• Examine two (2) well-known healthcare quality organizations that have taken two to three (2-3) measures to
improve quality within the organizations themselves. Suggest one (1) additional measure that each
organization could take to further improve healthcare quality. Justify your response.
• Suppose you are a Quality Officer for a healthcare organization in your area. You have been tasked with
creating a plan to reduce the increasing number of medical errors that occur within your organization. Specify
two (2) quality initiatives that your organization could implement in order to reduce medical errors and their
related costs. Determine the fundamental tenets of the Standard of Care that would influence quality in your
organization. Provide a rationale for your response.
Q&A PART II
• As a healthcare administrator, you have been tasked with researching your hospital’s compliance in the
proper reporting of both medical and non-medical errors made by the staff. Compare the relationship of
hospital’s corporate liability with that of each employee’s vicarious liability in the event of an error. Discuss the
essential steps that your organization can take to reduce occurrences in both. Provide at least two (2)
examples of the successful application of such steps to support your rationale.
• Interpret the extent to which public reporting and value-based purchasing improve healthcare quality. Include
a comparison of two to three (2-3) advantages to each reporting method. Support your response with two (2)
examples of healthcare quality improvements that could have resulted from of an organization implementing
each type of reporting method in question.