Essential Components of Quality Patient Care Case Study

Factors and Barriers Impacting Healthcare Quality

Introduction

The key terms of “Quality of life”, effective caring techniques and adequate promotion of a positive caring approach have been obtained to be essential key elements in accomplishing adequate and premium-quality care services for patients in the UK. The aspect of “Quality of life” can be defined as a person’s perception of his or her current positioning in life in the representation of the cultural values and additional value systems, in which individuals exist (Van Leeuwen et al., 2019). Apart from that, it also indicates an interconnection with their respective objectives, anticipations, measures and considerations. Additionally, different Key caring techniques can be defined as different effective strategies, which have been employed by different health and social care facilities to accomplish higher-quality patient-centred care services, while also attaching to the suggested most promising patient support conventions. Finally, the aspect of positive caring is all about designating a patient-centred care service pathway for separate individuals according to their potential requirements and desires, whatever healthcare needs individuals may acquire.

Main Body

a. Four to six factors requiring individuals to have a high quality of life

There are several influential factors, which are particularly required to acquire and maintain a higher quality of life. As opined by Schoene et al. (2019), the primary factor in maintaining the entire quality of life is adequate maintenance of both the physical and mental health of individuals and avoiding the development of any kind of disease or disorder. Apart from that, different types of material living situations, such as socioeconomic status, earnings and others also acquire a direct impact on sustaining the quality of lifestyle (Shrestha et al., 2019). Additionally, appropriate gaming of proper educational facilities, adequate social support and social connections, financial security and biological safety, governance and fundamental rights are additional factors, which influence the quality of life of individuals in the UK. People who have higher professional status enjoy more work autonomy in the working sectors of their life. They also engage in less quantity of manual labour in their sectors and have a few occasions of exposing their health risk. In that case, higher incomes are most probably associated with good nutritional Status. Although the phrase "quality of life" has a significant role in every academic field, individuals and also groups (Moudatsou et al, 2020). The health care system is an efficient part of total quality of life, other domains like jobs, housing, schools, and neighbourhood are also important.

The economic side also impacted the healthcare system of every people. The health economy is very important because it focuses on how the economic field of the shareholders and recipients affected the cost of the healthcare system. How poor people pay for care, and how their payments are going through to the medical sector it is also very important fact of their life (Webb et al, 2021). Unemployment, credit availability and also interest rates, and inflation are economic factors that affect the whole healthcare system. The economic environment changes can influence the company's expanding policies and also the purchase behaviour of the customers.

The uses of biological safety principles are very important factors in everyone's life. It can reduce health-related risks included with handling dangerous agents, toxins, and even biological hazards. Bio-safety signifies food-borne illness outbreaks effectively in the healthcare sectors. Various laboratory bio-safety methods are based on the principle of containment of the agent of biological aspects. It is very important to prevent exposure to the laboratory employees and also the outside environment very carefully. Governance and even fundamental rights fall a great impact on the social health care system. Health rights are a right of everyone's life so it is also a fundamental right for a human being. The right to health was first proposed by WHO (World Health Organization), influencing the entire healthcare system. Every human being is involved in the social rights of the healthcare system.

Some quality indicators of high quality of life include various factors such as income from the job, proper housing, life-work balance, access to cultural activities, and even the interpersonal relationship between the working employees and the suffering patient. The workers have to balance life and the workplace equally in the same criteria. The education quality of the people must be very good in quality as per the community-based. The income facility and the job aspects of the workers must be very effective for their personal as well as their professional life. It will help them in the future.

b. Description of four to five key caring techniques

There are several influential factors, which are particularly required to acquire and maintain a higher quality of life. As opined by Schoene et al. (2019), the primary factor in maintaining the entire quality of life is adequate maintenance of both the physical and mental health of individuals and avoiding the development of any kind of disease or disorder. Apart from that, different types of material living situations, such as socioeconomic status, earnings and others also acquire a direct impact on sustaining the quality of lifestyle (Shrestha et al., 2019). Additionally, appropriate gaming of proper educational facilities, adequate social support and social connections, financial security and biological safety, governance and fundamental rights are additional factors, which influence the quality of life of individuals in the UK. People who have higher professional status enjoy more work autonomy in the working sectors of their life. They also engage in less quantity of manual labour in their sectors and have a few occasions of exposing their health risk. In that case, higher incomes are most probably associated with good nutritional Status. Although the phrase "quality of life" has a significant role in every academic field, individuals and also groups (Moudatsou et al, 2020). The health care system is an efficient part of total quality of life, other domains like jobs, housing, schools, and neighbourhood are also important.

The economic side also impacted the healthcare system of every people. The health economy is very important because it focuses on how the economic field of the shareholders and recipients affected the cost of the healthcare system. How poor people pay for care, and how their payments are going through to the medical sector it is also very important fact of their life (Webb et al, 2021). Unemployment, credit availability and also interest rates, and inflation are economic factors that affect the whole healthcare system. The economic environment changes can influence the company's expanding policies and also the purchase behaviour of the customers.

The uses of biological safety principles are very important factors in everyone's life. It can reduce health-related risks included with handling dangerous agents, toxins, and even biological hazards. Bio-safety signifies food-borne illness outbreaks effectively in the healthcare sectors. Various laboratory bio-safety methods are based on the principle of containment of the agent of biological aspects. It is very important to prevent exposure to the laboratory employees and also the outside environment very carefully. Governance and even fundamental rights fall a great impact on the social health care system. Health rights are a right of everyone's life so it is also a fundamental right for a human being. The right to health was first proposed by WHO (World Health Organization), influencing the entire healthcare system. Every human being is involved in the social rights of the healthcare system. Some indicators of high quality of life include various factors such as income from the job, proper housing, life-work balance, access to cultural activities, and even the interpersonal relationship between the working employees and the suffering patient. The workers have to balance life and the workplace equally in the same criteria (Webb et al, 2021). The education quality of the people must be very good in quality as per the community-based. The income facility and the job aspects of the workers must be very effective for their personal as well as their professional life. It will help them in the future.

c. Four to six constraints (barriers) to positive caring

Several influential barriers have been accomplished, which acquire a direct negative impact on supplying adequate and appropriate positive caring approaches to patients in the UK. According to the perspectives of Kiwanuka et al. (2019), the initial and most influential barrier has been considered to be a potential lack of availability of skilled and experienced clinicians and other healthcare staff members, which acquires a negative impact on providing high-quality and patent-oriented health and social care services to patients. It has been obtained that a deficiency of skilled and expert healthcare professionals reduces the rate of appropriate identification and understanding of the most suitable treatment approach for curing patients. Apart from that, the refusal of patients in acquiring any kind of therapy or treatment is another barrier to providing positive healthcare services and a communication barrier such as being unable to construct appropriate communication with patients additionally identified barriers (Ray et al., 2022). Additionally, lack of financial support for patients, a deficiency of appropriate and effective pieces of healthcare equipment, language barriers and others are additional constraints to producing positive caring approaches.

Different potential constraints have been discovered among different care providers and various service receivers regarding achieving positive caring approaches in the respective field of health and social care surroundings. As stated by Kwame & Petrucka (2021), inadequate management of time is considered to be a leading constraint, which can negatively impact the overall quality of provided care services to patients. It has been found that a potential lack of appropriate time administration can influence the inappropriate development of adequate communication and favourable relationships among patients and care providers, which adversely affects the overall quality of the produced health and social care services to patients (Blackwood et al., 2019). In addition to this, as stated by Kiwanuka et al. (2019), a potential lack of appropriate funding, required pieces of effective clinical equipment and experienced healthcare professionals can also adversely impact the production of a positive caring approach (Hung et al., 2019). It has been found that the mentioned barriers induce failure to execute adequate positive caring intervention approaches and inadequate healthcare associates inducements. On the other hand, as mentioned by Ray et al. (2022), a potential deficiency of more skilled and experienced clinicians and additional healthcare professionals facilitates failure to identify the most effective treatment approach. Therefore, the mentioned barriers acquire a negative impact and reduce the rate of quality of the provided positive caring approach.

All people are consumed with the right to health and it falls a huge impact on the government to take an essential step toward these rights. The “Nursing Professional Practice Model” indicates the appropriate accomplishment of a positive acting approach to provide higher-quality care services to patients. Additionally, it has specifically highlighted different impactful key caring practices and methods which have been uncovered, which in turn, might assist in producing applicable patient-centered healthcare and social care services for patients. Besides that, the report has determined additional types of barriers that have been determined, that adversely impact the presentation of person-oriented healthcare and social care assistance to patients (de Vries et al, 2019). Finally, the present report has indicated effective processes and techniques to devastate identified challenges and the course, in which approaches have been completed. All people who are involved in the sector must be able to work cooperatively with the patients and their co-workers as much as possible.

d. Impact of quality of life, key caring techniques and positive caring work together to achieve good quality patient care

Effective production of patient-centred and higher-quality health and social care services can help to improve the overall quality of life of individuals in the UK. As opined by Newman et al. (2023), “Person-centred” care services help individuals to acquire the adequate understanding, aptitudes and self-confidence aspects, people require to more appropriately redirect. Apart from that, adequate patient-centred care services also help individuals to construct informed decision-making approaches to their individual health and social and health care aspects (Bou, 2023). On the other hand, it has also been found to have corresponded and be associated with the potential requirements and values of different individuals. However, inadequate financial support, unstable family and social balance, the occurrence of different types of diseased conditions and others are challenges, which can be experienced while achieving an appropriate quality of life (Towers et al., 2021). Contrary to this, appropriate mental, social and financial support can be acquired to overcome the mentioned challenges. The importance of improving the quality of life and positive caring work helps reduce the care fragmentation of a certain patient. It impacts by providing a safe and secure network of healthcare providers and even ensuring important referrals between several healthcare providers. Various concepts evaluate the positive and also the negative aspects of people's lives. Health is being identified as the most important side of life (Nyashanu et al., 2020). People need to take some time to make a specific decision about their health and also they need to communicate with the other healthcare team to express their feelings.

“Positive behavioural support (PBS)” or positive caring approaches functions as an effective framework for comprehending the overall meaning and background of different behavioural approaches to facilitate the development of supporting surroundings and strategies. It has been found that the respective techniques can effectively help to improve a person’s overall quality of life and, finally, consequence in the production of satisfactory quality and person-centred patient care (Newman et al., 2023). According to the mentioned framework, individuals may contend with different challenging behavioural aspects as individuals positively acquire different types of difficult or more complicated requirements, which cannot be addressed appropriately. Apart from that, individuals might be subjected to questioning surroundings, in which more challenging behavioural aspects are possible to occur such as conditions which are unproductive and empty of inspiration, where a higher level of direction has been established on people. However, the main challenge, which can be experienced while implementing an appropriate person-centred care service, is the refusal of patients to implement the most effective treatment approach. The respective challenges can be mitigated by acquiring appropriate consent from the involved patients by discussing the entire process and steps of the selected healthcare treatment approach (Towers et al., 2021). The improvement of the quality care of the patients is reducing care fragmentation of the suffering patients. The workers must provide a secure networking side for the patients; through the secure network all suffering patients are very effective for their future (Suzuki et al, 2020). Besides that, the patients are trusted by the working employees and also ensure effective resources and even smooth reflection between all healthcare workers. Quality of life impact is an effective concept that can handle the evaluations of the negative as well as the positive aspects of everyone’s life.

Conclusion

It can be concluded that the aspects of quality of life, key caring techniques and positive acting approach are the most essential components in providing effective and patient-centred care services to patients in the UK. Apart from that, it can be said that there are several influencing factors, which acquire a direct impact on maintaining an adequate quality of life. Additionally, several key caring techniques have been discovered, which can help to produce appropriate person-centred health and social care services for patients. The negative impact of the production of person-oriented health and social care services to patients and strategies to overcome recognised challenges have been accomplished.

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