Create a scholarly literature review/research paper (APA format) focused on an evidence-based
approach to the need for Quality Improvement, informatics, and patient care technologies in the
delivery and evaluation of nursing care to acutely ill patients across the lifespan to include:
1. Integrates problem or topic with an analysis of theory, skills, concepts, and the nursing process for
assessment and clinical reasoning in the care of patients
2. Includes Implications for the issues, ideas & problems that your topic addresses on the delivery and
evaluation of nursing care to acutely ill patients across the lifespan
3. Evaluates the principles of quality improvement, healthcare policy, and cost effectiveness used in the
development and initiation of effective plans by the microsystem and/or system-wide practice
improvements for quality healthcare delivery)
4. Identifies the factors and system contributions impacting the delivery of nursing care (including
financial) pertaining to nursing care specific to your topic/problem
5. Examines patient care technologies, information systems, and communication devices (current and
potential in future) applicable to selected topic/problem
6. Identifies the components and processes for the use of new patient care technologies, information
systems, and communication devices in supporting safe nursing practice
7. Describe possible advocacy techniques for promoting safe, quality outcomes of care for diverse
populations based on the benefits of new patient care technologies, information systems, and
communication devices
8. Investigate the need for quality improvement processes and performance measures during
implementation of patient safety initiatives (including nurse-sensitive indicators in the microsystem of
care)
9. Identify the potential outcomes of improvement processes, quality improvement, healthcare policy, and
cost effectiveness related to selected topic or problem
10. Justify the need for prioritizing evaluation and potential redesign of workflow and care processes
decisions before implementation of care technology for facilitating nursing practice
11. Examine the nurse’s role in use of the nursing process and collaboration with other members of the
healthcare team for improving patient outcomes (E. Participate in the process of retrieval, appraisal, and
synthesis of evidence in collaboration with other members of the healthcare team for improving patient
outcomes)
12. Evaluate the use of policies and procedures within the acute care setting using an analysis of factors
and system contributions impacting the quality and safety of culturally competent nursing practice
