Quality Improvement Committees

 Overview

 The quality improvement committee targeting veteran citizens in in the community held a conference in the community. The aim of the committees was to improve the life of the veterans who are obese and are undergoing post-traumatic stress disorders. Reduction of the problems faced by the senior citizens is imperative in the promotion of the veterans’ health. The benefit of the activity to me is learning how to advise, manage and control patients with post-traumatic stress disorders (Bridges, Davidson, Soule Odegard, Maki, & Tomkowiak, 2011). Also as result of the conference, I would able to differentiate people who are serving with the post-traumatic stress disorders from the people suffering from the general stress.

 Problem

 The current state of the patients with the obese as result of the post-traumatic stress disorders (PSTD) is severe among the veteran officers. Research indicates that PTSD symptoms are associated with obesity and metabolic syndrome in veterans. Patients with PTSD are more likely to have an increased risk of developing obesity and cardiovascular illnesses due to poor health habits including substance abuse and lack of exercise. Police officers with severe PTSD symptoms related to job stress had three times the risk of concurrent metabolic syndrome (Medical education online, Bell, Boden, Horwood, & Mulder, 2017). Most veterans spend their time in the cars or at the desks thus do not exercise thus ending up getting sick.

Treatment

Treatment for obesity is usually through changes in lifestyle that is exercise and diet.  Most doctors have changed their approach to their patients on the issues of weight loss. Studies indicate that losing a modest body weight of 10% it still can prevent one from being obese (Medical education online, Bell, Boden, Horwood, & Mulder, 2017). In some cases, doctors can prescribe weight-loss medicines along with a program of diet and exercise. In some severe cases, surgery is recommended to save a life.

Solution

There is need to reduce the amount of calories taken by the veteran. Also, the time adopted by the veterans in doing physical activity is imperative. Quality improvement targets the availability of the veterans for demonstration and meeting of the same patients with a nurse in the society. Attending and participating in such conference is imperative in the improvement of the nurse skills and interaction with veterans. Also, the nurse will be able to learn from other senior nurses and professions on how to coach patients and manage large numbers (Bridges, Davidson, Soule Odegard, Maki, & Tomkowiak, 2011).

Program Competencies Addressed

The quality committee focuses on the nutritional, psychology and general health programs in the conference. The committee promoted the use of the sequence such that programs like educating and demonstrations were done in an orderly manner (Bridges, Davidson, Soule Odegard, Maki, & Tomkowiak, 2011). The competence of the quality delivered to the veterans aimed at reducing the amount of the calories intake and positive perception of life.

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References

Bridges, D., Davidson, R. A., Soule Odegard, P., Maki, I. V., & Tomkowiak, J. (2011). Interprofessional collaboration: three best practice models of interprofessional education.

Medical education online , 16 (1), 6035. Bell, C. J., Boden, J. M., Horwood, L. J., & Mulder, R. T. (2017). The role of peritraumatic stress and disruption distress in predicting symptoms of major depression following exposure to a natural disaster. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry , 0004867417691852.