Question description
Write 8-10 pages in which you identify a major patient-safety issue within your own organization and use evidence-based best practices and technology to develop a plan to improve the safety issue.
Quality improvement and patient safety are central to the nursing leadership role.
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
Central to the nursing leadership role, quality improvement and patient safety are analyzed from many perspectives. Types of quality improvement and patient safety programs may range from internal, organization-based quality improvement team reports to external benchmarks from The Joint Commission, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), MAGNET, and numerous other organizations.SHOW LESS
In this program, you have also examined the application of research and information technology in the nursing profession. Information systems and patient-care technologies have contributed in many ways to improved patient outcomes; however, safeguards, secure practices, and ethical standards are necessary to promote and support data security, patient confidentiality, and regulatory requirements. You have also investigated the effective use of patient-care technologies, communication systems, and information systems across the health-illness continuum.
As you prepare for this assessment, complete the following:
As you construct this assessment, address each point as completely as possible:
CRITERIA | NON-PERFORMANCE | BASIC | PROFICIENT | DISTINGUISHED |
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Describe a patient safety issue and compare currently used organizational processes for handling this issue with concepts, principles, and practices that contribute to quality improvement and patient safety. | Does not describe a patient safety issue and compare currently used organizational processes for handling this issue with concepts, principles, and practices that contribute to quality improvement and patient safety. | Identifies but does not describe a patient-safety issue and currently used organizational processes for handling patient safety issues with concepts, principles, and practices that contribute to quality improvement and patient safety. | Describes a patient safety issue and compare currently used organizational processes for handling this issue with concepts, principles, and practices that contribute to quality improvement and patient safety. | Describes a patient-safety issue and explores likely causes of the issue while evaluating currently used organizational processes for handling patient safety issues in terms of the evidence-based concepts, principles, and practices that contribute to quality improvement and patient safety. |
Analyze the legal and ethical consequences of not addressing patient-safety issues. | Does not analyze the legal and ethical consequences of not addressing patient-safety issues. | Describes the legal and ethical consequences of not addressing patient-safety issues. | Analyzes the legal and ethical consequences of not addressing patient-safety issues. | Analyzes the legal and ethical consequences of not addressing patient-safety issues and describes the impact on the organization from a financial and regulatory perspective. |
Recommend evidence-based interventions, including technology, to address specific patient-safety issues. | Does not recommend evidence-based interventions, including technology, to address specific patient-safety issues | Identifies interventions, including technology, to address specific patient-safety issues but does not provide evidence to support the interventions. | Recommends evidence-based interventions, including technology, to address specific patient-safety issues | Evaluates evidence-based interventions, including technology, to address specific patient-safety issues to determine the most appropriate intervention for the organization and the safety issue. |
Describe strategies to overcome specific organizational barriers to change. | Does not describe strategies to overcome specific organizational barriers to change. | Lists strategies to overcome organizational barriers to change, but the strategies are not specific to the organization. | Describes strategies to overcome specific organizational barriers to change. | Analyzes the most effective strategies to overcome specific organizational barriers to change. |
Write coherently to support a central idea in appropriate APA format, with correct grammar, usage, and mechanics as expected of a nursing professional. | Writing does not support a central idea in appropriate APA format. Does not use correct grammar, usage, and mechanics as expected of a nursing professional. | Writing supports an idea. APA format is inconsistent, with major errors of grammar, usage, and mechanics. | Writing coherently supports a central idea in appropriate APA format and with few errors of grammar, usage, and mechanics. | Writing is coherent, using evidence to support a central idea in a consistently appropriate APA format, with correct grammar, usage, and mechanics as expected of a nursing professional. |