Identify opportunities for waste reduction.

Question Description

NSG/451

Assignment Content

• Think about the clinical environment where you work or one in which you previously worked.
  Identify opportunities for waste reduction. Consider the following:
  • Setting: administrative, operational, clinical
  • Efficiency
  • Value to patient
• Suggest process changes to improve the situation.
  Write a 175-word communication to frontline staff and nurse leaders explaining your findings.
  Develop a 7- to 10-slide presentation for your department.
• (Reducing and eliminating waste is essential to managing resources. Waste in health care can take many forms: materials, unneeded transport of people or items from one place to another, inventories, wait times, employees working on processes that are not valuable to the customer, arduous processes, re-work due to incompetence or lack of organization, and incorrect staff staffing levels.
• The Institute for Health Improvement (IHI) developed a Hospital Inpatient Waste Identification tool.)
• Review the IHI resources to better understand some of the ways you can affect waste as a nurse and nurse leader.

Also: In a separate paper

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

• -In the current U.S. health care system, is health care a right or a privilege?
• -Do you think health care should be a right or a privilege?

Support your stance with two scholarly articles

Please cite with at least 1 source using APA format.