My 3 points of focus for change and measuring the outcome after change has been implemented are: Higher patient fall incidents, Increased Medication Errors and Staff Burn out. These are the 3 references that I used:
Annamaraju P., Haddad, L M., Toney-Butler, T J., Nursing Shortage. [Updated 2023 Feb 13]. In: StatPearls [Internet]. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2023 Jan-. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK493175/
Ghanbarzehi, N., Heydarikhayat, N., Sabagh, K. (2024). Strategies to prevent medical errors by nursing interns: a qualitative content analysis. BMC Nurs 23, 48 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12912-024-01726-1
Syed, Sana, (2023) The Impact of Staffing Shortages in Healthcare. Honors Theses. 3691. https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/honors_theses/3691
As a nurse leader, you must be able to access, identify, and describe outcome measures as they relate to safety and quality problems in your organization.
This assessment provides an opportunity to examine existing outcome measures, assess their strategic value, and present your findings to executive leaders in a manner that will help you gain their support. Focus on existing outcome measures and their relationship to the systemic problem you are addressing. For this assessment, you have been asked to draft a summary of existing outcome measures for your organization’s executive team to raise awareness of the problem and the strategic value of existing measures. Explain key quality and safety outcomes.
Determine the strategic value to an organization of specific outcome measures.
Analyze the relationships between a systemic problem in your organization or practice setting and specific quality and safety outcomes.
Determine how specific outcome measures support strategic initiatives related to a quality and safety culture.
Determine how the leadership team would support the implementation and adoption of proposed practice changes affecting specific outcomes.
Integrate relevant and credible sources of evidence to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.
