Preventing infection control surveillance; Improving antibiotic stewardship
Acute and post-acute care leaders are seeking ways to improve infection control and antibiotic stewardship. They recognize that improved infection control leads to better outcomes, reduced readmissions and ALOS, and increased quality and patient satisfaction.
However, common approaches to daily infection control processes do not simplify the day-to-day processes required for success, nor do they result in useable data. Instead, they add complexity, cost, and frustration.
This paper outlines the strategic imperatives and offers a solution – enabled by cloud technologies – for implementing evidence-based infection control and antibiotic stewardship measures while improving operational effectiveness.
Improve retention and target higher order organizational performance needs
Leaders recognize that reducing unplanned turnover is a top priority. Improvements in employee retention positively impact HR costs, business operations, quality, and customer satisfaction.
A key aspect of employee retention is engagement. However, most engagement approaches are driven by periodic surveys — often only once a year — focused on organizational climate with few specific recommendations for improvement and little follow-up or action.
This paper reviews common engagement challenges and offers solutions — enabled by cloud technologies — for involving employees in a focused dialogue that increases retention and targets accelerates organizational performance.
Stephanie Meade, Mercy Health-Cincinnati’s vice president of nursing at West Hospital, has published research on the benefits of using OPS to help drive the engagement of nurses, monitor their perception of the workplace, and make hundreds of operational improvements.
Nurse executives must develop creative solutions to improve staff perceptions of the work environment and decrease turnover, as well as stay connected with their staff. This article summarizes how OPS has been successfully incorporated into chief nursing officer rounding and the impact on NDNQI® survey results.
Across the U.S. healthcare industry, a shortage of nurses is a persistent and growing problem. Read the case study on how OPS was used to mitigate nurse turnover and improve operational effectiveness.
Tools for increasing financial effectiveness and reducing complexity
For linking people and the organization
“OPS helps our improvement projects achieve their intended goals”
“Helps complete the performance cycle”
