Enhancing Quality and Safety
For this assessment, you will develop a 3–5
page paper that examines a safety quality issue in a health care setting. You
will analyze the issue and examine potential evidence-based and best-practice
solutions from the literature as well as the role of nurses and other
stakeholders in addressing the issue.
The
purpose of this assessment is to better understand the role of the
baccalaureate-prepared nurse in enhancing quality improvement (QI) measures
that address a safety quality issue in a health care setting. This will be
within the specific context of patient safety risks at a health care setting of
your choice. You will do this by exploring the professional guidelines and best
practices for improving and maintaining patient safety in health care settings
from organizations such as QSEN and the IOM.
Looking
through the lens of these professional best practices to examine the current
policies and procedures currently in place at your chosen organization and the
impact on safety measures for patients surrounding a specific safety quality
issue, you will consider the role of the nurse in driving quality and safety
improvements. You will identify stakeholders in QI improvement and safety
measures as well as consider evidence-based strategies to enhance quality of
care and promote medication administration safety in the context of your chosen
health care setting.
Scenario
Select one of the safety quality issues presented in
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and incorporate evidence-based strategies to support communication and ensure
safe and effective care.
INSTRUCTIONS
For
this assessment, you will analyze a safety quality issue in a health care
setting and identify a quality improvement (QI) initiative.
Be
sure that your plan addresses the following, which corresponds to the grading
criteria in the scoring guide. Please study the scoring guide carefully so that
you know what is needed for a distinguished score.
· Explain factors leading to a specific patient-safety risk
in a health care setting.
· Explain evidence-based and best-practice solutions to
improve patient safety and reduce costs.
· Explain how nurses can help coordinate care to increase
patient safety and reduce costs.
· Identify stakeholders with whom nurses would coordinate to
drive safety enhancements with a specific safety quality issue.
· Communicate using writing that is clear, logical, and
professional, with correct grammar and spelling, using current APA style.
Additional Requirements
· Length of submission: 3–5
pages, plus title and reference pages.
· Number of references: Cite
a minimum of 4 sources of scholarly or professional evidence that support your
findings and considerations. Resources should be no more than 5 years old.
· APA formatting: References and
citations are formatted according to current APA style.
Competencies Measured
By
successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency
in the course competencies through the following assessment scoring guide
criteria:
· Competency 1: Analyze the elements of a successful quality
improvement initiative.
o
Explain evidence-based
and best-practice solutions to improve patient safety and reduce costs.
· Competency 2: Analyze factors that lead to patient safety
risks.
o
Explain factors leading
to a specific patient-safety risk in a health care setting.
· Competency 4: Explain the nurse’s role in coordinating care
to enhance quality and reduce costs.
o
Explain how nurses can
help coordinate care to increase patient safety and reduce costs.
o
Identify stakeholders
with whom nurses would coordinate to drive safety enhancements with a specific
safety quality issue.
· Competency 5: Apply professional, scholarly, evidence-based
strategies to communicate in a manner that supports safe and effective patient
care.
o
Organize content so
ideas flow logically with smooth transitions; contains few errors in grammar or
punctuation, word choice, and spelling.
o
Apply APA formatting to
in-text citations and references exhibiting nearly flawless adherence to APA
format.
RESOURCES: you may use the ones I provided if you wish or yours, but make sure the articles you are using are peer reviewed and within 5years. Thank you
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/medication-administration-errors
url=https://www.proquest.com/trade-journals/leading-innovation-is-completely-different-change/docview/2363557607/se-2
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/nursing/center-nursing-inquiry/nursing-inquiry/quality-improvement
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9272170/
