Subject
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Name (electronic copy of photograph if Fatma Al-Dhabbari
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Title of Project
Professional Background
Qualification and Membership of
Professional Bodies etc.
Patient Safety: What factors in the
organisational structure promote or inhibit
enhancing a patient safety culture in selected
tertiary hospitals in Oman?
Staff Nurse
In charge of Nursing Quality Management &
Special Projects in Sultan Qaboos University
Hospital, Oman
BSc (Hons) in Adult Nursing, MSc( Advance
Nursing Practice in Tissue Viability and Post
Graduate Diploma in Nursing Quality
Management & Leadership
-Member of Nursing & Midwifery Council since
2000 – current
-Member of Oman Nursing & Midwifery Since
2006 – Current
-Member of Oman Breast Cancer Association
since 2012 - Current
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Date of Registration
Full time /Part time
Supervisor(s) incl. email address
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01/10/2014
Full Time
Anna O'Neill
Anna.O'Neill@glasgow.ac.uk
Joan Mcdowell
Joan.McDowell@glasgow.ac.uk
Funder (if relevant)
Ministry of Higher Education, Oman
150 Word summary on the project
The
increasing importance of quality
improvement in the global arena has ushered
a movement in the global healthcare industry
to standardize quality improvement in order
to ensure safe care to the patients. This is not
an arbitrary attempt rather it is a strategic
process-oriented move that translates straight
to the bottom line of hospitals, providers and
blended ventures of public-private paradigms
in healthcare. The movement is guided by a
myriad of determinants comprising of
codifications and regulations set by best
practices and the rule of law, the human
factor (both providers and patients), the
standards and policies of the healthcare
institution(s), and the tools and strategies
deployed. Being employed in a healthcare
institution, the researcher attempted to
accomplish a work-based project on the aspect
of whether quality improvement leads to
enhanced patient safety and quality care
which now forms the basis of competition for
the healthcare institutions.
Furthermore, improvements in patient safety
are needed in order to provide the good
quality of service required to meet patients’
best expectations. One of the reasons for
desiring change in the health care sector is to
improve and to satisfy people’s health care
needs and to promote healthy living and a
safer practice (Lynch & Cole 2006, Pearson et
al. 2005). In addition, the increased population
of elderly and the prevalence of chronic
diseases are some of the indicators that
demand an improvement in health systems
performance (Bankauskaite and Dargent
2007). Efficient exchange of information is
important to the success of change toward
quality improvement; communicating quality
measures which play a central role in building
a better system; and for comprehending the
necessity for the change to a better patient
safety culture.
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