Stakeholder/Committee/Special Group Reporting and Approval Process: Complicated Pressure Ulcers
by Joseph Li, MD
A stakeholder is an individual or group with a direct interest or whose interests may be affected by the project outcome. Every medical center has stakeholders who should be made aware of new initiatives prior to implementation. These individuals or committees may have direct involvement in the project or may influence the project outcome; for example they may offer insight and guidance regarding initiatives that have be successful (or unsuccessful) in the past.
Involving stakeholders early is also important for the approval process. There is typically an approval process that should be completed in order to maximize awareness, provide legal protection and improve the success of interventions. Stakeholders are important for “buy in” and can influence decision makers or may have organizational authority. This can improve the overall success of the initiative as well as provide resources for process improvements down the line.
Each medical center may have different stakeholders who are appropriate to involve. Some examples of stakeholders in complicated pressure ulcer initiatives are listed below:
- Hospital Leadership
- Information technology
- Materials management
- Medical providers
- Geriatrician
- Hospitalist
- Infectious disease
- Primary care physician
- Emergency department physician
- Non–physician providers
- Nurse-practitioner
- Nursing
- Critical care
- Educator
- Emergency department nurse
- Leadership/manager
- Medical/surgical unit nurse and nursing assistant
- Operating room nurse
- Wound ostomy continence nurse
- Nurse-practitioner
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- Nutritionist/dietician
- Pharmacy
- Quality improvement team
- Patient safety officer
- Surgeon
- General surgeon
- Orthopedic surgeon
- Plastic surgeon
- Trauma surgeon
- Podiatry
- Patient advocate/representative
- Physical therapy
- Occupational therapy
- Legal/risk management team
- Community physician
- Residents
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