Management Process: Controlling Flashcards
_____ refers to activities that are used to evaluate, monitor, or regulate services rendered to consumers.
Quality Control
_____ is the degree to which health services for individuals and populations increase the likelihood of desired health outcomes and are consistent with current professional knowledge.
Healthcare quality
Hallmarks of Effective Quality Control Programs
- Support from top-level administration.
- Commitment by the organization in terms of fiscal and human resources.
- Quality goals reflect the search for excellence rather than minimums.
- The process is ongoing (continuous).
_____ is a systematic and official examination of a record, process, structure, environment, or account to evaluate performance.
Audit
Types of Nursing Audit
- Retrospective audits
- Concurrent audits
- Prospective audits
- Outcome audits
- Process audits
- Structure audits
_____ in healthcare organizations provides managers with a means of applying the control process to determine the quality of services rendered.
Auditing
_____ are performed after the patient receives the service
Retrospective audits
_____ are performed while the patient is receiving the service
Concurrent audits
_____ attempt to identify how future performance will be affected by current interventions.
Prospective audits
_____ reflect the result of care or how the patient’s health status changes as a result of an intervention
Outcome audits
_____ are used to measure the process of care or how the care was carried out and assume that a relationship exists between the process used by the nurse and the quality of care provided
Process audits
_____ include resource inputs such as the environment in which healthcare is delivered
Structure audits
_____ is a production system built on the complete elimination of waste and focused on the pursuit of the most efficient production method possible.
Toyota Production System
_____ also referred to as continuous quality improvement
Total Quality Management
_____ created a model ??
Edward Deming
_____ let employees know the level of their job performance as well as any expectations.
Performance Appraisal
Types of Performance Appraisal
- Trait rating scales
- Job dimension scales
- Behaviorally anchored rating scales
- Checklists
- Essays
- Self-appraisals
- Management by objectives
- Peer review