Assessment 3 Part A: Why is clinical governance and risk management critical to patient safety in health care and aged care organisations ? (1,500 - 1,600 words) The paper will take the form of a...

SP5 2021 QUALITY AND SAFETY FOR HEALTH AND AGED CARE MANAGERS
ASSESSMENT TWO: QUALITY AND HEALTH SAFETY MEASUREMENTS IN AGED HEALTHCARE
Table of Contents
Part A    3
Introduction    3
Discussion: Overview of Clinical Governance and Aged Care    3
Patient Safety and Aged Care    4
Conclusion    6
References    7
Part B    8
References    11
Part C: Personal Reflection    12
Description    12
Feelings    12
Evaluation    12
Analysis    12
Conclusion    12
Action Plan    13
Part A
Introduction
Healthcare sector has evolved over the course of past two decades rapidly and there is a great need of applying universal norms of care to all kinds of settings. In fact, the major dimensions of healthcare industry are now guided by the principle of developing dedicated models of care to a wide range of patients (Cooper et al. 2018). This is possibly, one of the landmarks,through which, the concept of clinical governance is understood because it is the procedure of delivering first class patient centred care in all settings.
Organisations in healthcare thrive to be the best in service in terms of maintaining clinical governance whose core strength is ensuring safety of patients. In the context of aged care, this becomes even more critical than any other sector because this population—the elderly one—is vulnerable to various health issues and multiple approaches are expected to be in their access.
Discussion: Overview of Clinical Governance and Aged Care
At first, it is significant to note here that clinical governance, like all other service deliver modes, is applicable to healthcare in a typical context to aged care. When it comes to provide holistic support to aged care facilities, it is implied that healthcare professionals approach the planning and execution both with utmost sincerity (Lawati et al. 2018). It is because of the fact that elderly population requires advanced care and they even anticipate that apart from their general needs, psychological, social and family based issues should also be associated with their plan of care. Thus, when it comes to clinical governance in general, it becomes critical to maintain high class services provided to the elderly population.
Additionally, the division of clinical governance, if seen
oadly, has two sides and both remain in the centre of aged care facilities developed in hospitals or they are provided at homes. Two types of elderly people, therefore, tend to approach healthcare service provides with regard to ensure that their needs and expectations are well met out. The first one require aged care facilities to take care of their needs while the second category belongs to individuals who prefer taking in home support on full time or part time bases (Yu & Qian, 2017).
Based on the kind of requirements parented above, the healthcare professionals, if they are to follow clinical governance, have to display out of the box kind of thinking because conventional methods are simply not enough to address the multiple aspects of care needed by this population group. The clinicians and nursing professionals both are expected to show exceptional amount of skills to meet these requirements. This makes the clinical governance framework in aged care one of the crucial factors to ca
y out.
There should be a finance side of this issue as well, which should be discussed here. One of the difficulties that public hospitals have is reconciling the need to be accountable for the use of public funds with the ability to function as a hospital in the healthcare industry. Public hospitals are subject to stringent procurement procedures and public service standards, resulting in lengthy decision-making processes (Lawati et al. 2018). In a hospital context, governance encompasses not just the economic and financial aspects of healthcare delivery, but also the societal aspects. In the hospital environment, it may be claimed that hospital governance takes a more comprehensive institutional approach to governance (Yu & Qian, 2017).
The above can also be understood by an example of dementia patients’ care at aged care facilities or in home support. The dementia care framework requires patience, dedication and following of the universal norms of care with diligence (Yu & Qian, 2017). If these requirements are not well met, this becomes quite challenging to the entire system because various issues may surge up, if slightest e
or occurs in the judgment of the professional to ca
y out his or her duties.
The patients of dementia suffer from weakened state of memory and at the same time, it leads to the various physical issues such as falls and other stuff. This implies that when patients of dementia are taken up for aged care, some specific norms of care should be applied carefully. In some of the cases, it has been viewed that the margin of e
or in care---even if it was kept under control—led to some critical issues (Ringdal et al. 2018).
Patient Safety and Aged Care
In the context of the above, the interlinked concept to clinical governance is the ensuring of patient safety by all means. In aged care facilities, the approach of care is kept at the highest level of professionalism because safeguarding the interests of the patients is one of the primary requirements of care (Oakman et al. 2018). The core strength of any aged care facility is determined by the degree of professional skills that their employees show or by the amount of care that the clinical professionals there are prepared to provide to the patients of all types.
In fact, the word safety itself has multiple versions; it has as many aspects to cover as possible when applied to aged care segment because safety here is not limited to the procurement of physical strength but also it has social and psychological dimensions (Lawati et al. 2018).The ensuring of patient safety in aged care takes place through affirming that the facility is equipped well with regard to approach every patient with the highest degree of care offered (Oakman et al. 2018). For example, the facility is expected to have all types of equipment and infrastructure that supports the aged care patients and provides them an environment that is capacitive enough to encourage them towards self-management of care.
This may include—but it is not limited to—the availability of the equipmentsuch as ramps, wheelchair or crutches that help patients to walk. The duty of the clinical staff is to ensure that the aged population living in these facilities is well trained to sue equipment...