Clinical governance is a framework which helps all clinicians including nurses to continuously improve quality and safeguard standard of care.
It is an umbrella term for all the things that help to maintain and improve high standards of patient care. It is also a framework designed to help doctors and nurses to improve clinical standards in our health system.
The aim of clinical governance it to make sure that hospitals including Brown Sequard cares homes and any healthcare organizations to develop culture, systems and ways of working which assure that the quality of care is at the heart of all organizations. Most importantly, head of each organization should ultimately be accountable for the quality of care delivered.
Clinical governance is to ensure that health professionals have the right education, training, skills, conducive to their practice and competence to deliver the care are in place throughout the hospitals, use techniques to anticipate and prevent potential problems, use techniques which monitor and improve existing practice, re-organize and act on poor performance thus providing a framework which allows staff to learn from mistakes and facilitate the use of good practice.
Clinical governance must be focused on improving the quality of patient’s care. It should apply to all hospitals and all health organizations. It demands partnerships between nurses, doctors, care assistants, domestics, clinicians, managers, patients to build up a dynamic teamwork to provide a high level of care. The involvement of patients and wider public is also important to effective clinical governance. Nurses must have a key role to play in implementing clinical governance must apply to all staffs and communicate clearly so that all staffs understand the relevance of their work. It provides a framework to co-ordinate quality improvement and quality standard. Its aim is to promote, maintain and improve standards of patients care. Quality improvements should become a continuous and ongoing process for promoting effective team-work and changes as well.
For patients, clinical governance will mean that there should be more emphasis in place to assure the quality of care they receive. They should get opportunity to get access to their file on request, query about the care they receive and voice their views about concerns and complaints. For nurses, clinical governance will be bridging the gap with patients, linking together with them and involvement which help to promote and improve standard of care. For managers, clinical governance means creating a safer, cleaner and relaxed environment. Quality assurances to be extended to all facilities to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of services, and a patient charter to put in place to protect them. Help hospitals and health organizations to flourish.
Finally, if lack of commitment should however exist on behalf of the organizations concerned to save our health system then at least it can be prevented from getting any worse. It should not exist in our hospital anymore about who you know but what you know. If problem are not dealt with sooner rather than later, then we are reaching a climax to fall into a crisis.
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