The follow
ing post has two assignments;
1. Labor Relations Law
Recently, you have heard rumors that employees would like to unionize. The director of human resources has come to one of your regional managers' meet
ings to discuss a couple of th
ings about unions
so that managers are equipped with detailed
information. Answer the follow
ing questions:
What is the process that employees will use to unionize?
How can collective barga
ining deliver improvements for workers
in the organization?
What does a union have to consider regard
ing a state's right to work laws?
2.The Reporting of Quality Measures
One of the quality measures reported by hospitals to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services which is published on the Hospital Compare website is statistics on “surgery patients who were
given an antibiotic at the right time (with
in one hour of surgery) to help prevent
infection.” Answer the follow
ing questions to reflect on your understand
ing of this quality measure.
• Why is it cl
inically important for patients to receive antibiotics prior to surgery?
• In regards to cl
inical documentation
in the health record that would be reviewed to report on hospital performance of this quality measure, which portion of the record would provide the
most accurate details to confirm the adm
inistration and time of adm
inistration of antibiotics prior to surgery?
• If hospital a consistently scores low on this measure, what does this
indicate?
• If a hospital is scor
ing low on this quality measure, which cl
inical quality management process could be used to help the hospital understand why the performance is low, formulate a plan to
improve its score, implement the plan, and evaluate results of this measure
in the future?