Microsystems And Quality Improvement Initiatives Case Study

NU 415 Leadership and Management for RN’s Week 6 Discussion Board

Microsystems and Quality Improvement Initiatives

The complexity of health care today requires an environment where unique relationships of individual; family (giving them what they need) and healthcare team come together to impact health status, daily function capacity and nurturing, caring relationships (Nelson, 2008 et al p 2). According to Huber 2008, the successful delivery of health care into the 21st century will require micro-systems as a conceptual model, essential building blocks for organizing care. Bigger systems (macrosystems) are made of smaller systems, these, smaller systems (microsystems) produce quality, safety, and cost outcomes at the front line of care (Huber 2008 slide 1-5 and Nelson, 2008 et al p 2).

Microsystems are embedded with clinical

A healthcare clinical microsystem is defined as the combination of a small team of people who work together on a regular basis, or as needed staff to provide care, and the individuals who receive that care, who also can be recognized as a discrete subpopulation of patients (Huber 2007 et al). I was considered as needed staff to provide care. According to the Joint Commission’s Nelson 2008 et al, “Wherever, however, and whenever health care is delivered—no matter the setting or population of patients—the body of knowledge on clinical microsystems can guide and support innovation and peak performance” (Nelson 2008 et al). Microsystems are embedded with clinical microsystems; they are the small, functional frontline units that provide most health care to most people (Nelson 2008 et