Healthcare Priority Issue
Baccalaureate education will provide learning opportunities to use safety principles, quality improvement concepts, basic quality and safety investigations, and monitoring the results and outcomes (AACN, 2008).
Transforming healthcare and improving quality are priorities for the profession of nursing. The following activity will help you explore key national priority health care areas for quality improvement as identified by the Institute of Medicine. Begin by selecting a key healthcare priority area and a population. Next, review and locate 2 article that describes a nursing intervention designed to improve a patient outcome for the chosen population selected healthcare priority issue. Finally, discuss why it is important for nursing to be involved in Quality Improvement and describe how nursing values can be used to help improve safe patient care.
Access the Priority Areas for National Action: Transforming Health Quality and read Chapter 3: Priority Areas for Quality Improvement, pages 41-45. Select ONE priority area (priority healthcare issue) and identify a patient population you would like to explore.
Additional Instructions:
1. All submissions should have a title page and reference page.
2. Utilize a minimum of two scholarly resources.
3. Adhere to grammar, spelling and punctuation criteria.
4. Adhere to APA compliance guidelines.
5. Adhere to the chosen Submission Option for Delivery of Activity guidelines.
INSTRUCTION
1. Identifies and describes the selected healthcare priority issue, the population it involves, and the significance of the health care issue. Includes facts or data
2. Discusses the rationale for choosing the priority healthcare issue and explains the priority healthcare issue importance to nursing. Provides details.
3. Clearly identify two nursing actions or interventions designed to improve patient care or a patient outcome. From the two nursing article, select a total of two (no more or less) nursing interventions and explain how the interventions improved two patient outcome
4. Using the interventions from the articles/studies, describe how you would recommend a Quality Initiative (QI) to improve patient care within a healthcare facility (hospital) and explain why this QI would be important to implement for patients.
5. Discusses why it is important for nursing to be involved in quality initiatives and identifies two nursing values and explain how each of the professional.
6. nursing values can help to improve patient care outcomes.
7. No errors in APA, Spelling, and Punctuation.
8. Provides two or more references.
