Horizontal Thinking in Healthcare Organizations

The foundation of clinical performance protocols should aim for clinical excellence by focusing on clinical care guidelines, training, continuous improvement plans, and clinical benchmarks and dashboards that are supported by best practices and evidence-based practices.

• Building on the previously selected healthcare organization Select one clinical department with in a healthcare organization providing a brief description of services.
• Describe the roles and responsibilities of each member of the healthcare team. Executive Level Officer, Department Director, Physician, Nurse.
• Discuss how clinical benchmarks and dashboards are utilized for three specific clinical care guidelines.
• Describe how evidence based practice influences clinical performance protocols of each team members.

To support your work, use your course and text readings and also use the South University Online Library. As in all assignments, cite your sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format.

Submission Details:

• Support your rationale with course reading or outside authoritative sources.
• Post a minimum 750 words in Microsoft Word format.
• Cite a minimum of 3 outside peer reviewed sources to support your assertions