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Assessment 1 4035

Enhancing Quality and Safety

For this assessment, you will develop a 3–5 page paper that examines a safety quality issue in a healthcare 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.

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Introduction

The role of the baccalaureate nurse includes identifying and explaining specific patient risk factors, incorporating evidence-based solutions to improving patient safety and coordinating care. A solid foundation of knowledge and understanding of safety organizations such as Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN), the Institute of Medicine (IOM), and The Joint Commission and its National Patient Safety Goals (NPSGs) program is vital to practicing nurses with regard to providing and promoting safe and effective patient care.

You are encouraged to complete the Identifying Safety Risks and Solutions activity. This activity offers an opportunity to review a case study and practice identifying safety risks and possible solutions. We have found that learners who complete course activities and review resources are more successful with first submissions. Completing course activities is also a way to demonstrate course engagement.

References

Kohn, L. T., Corrigan, J., & Donaldson, M. S. (Eds.). (2000). 
To err is human: Building a safer health system. National Academy Press.

Overview

As a baccalaureate-prepared nurse, you will be responsible for implementing quality improvement (QI) and patient safety measures in healthcare settings. Effective quality improvement measures result in systemic and organizational change, ultimately leading to the development of a patient safety culture.

Consider the hospital-acquired conditions that are not reimbursed under Medicare/Medicaid, some of which are specific safety issues such as infections, falls, medication errors, and other concerns that could have been prevented or alleviated with the use of evidence-based guidelines.

The purpose of this assessment is to better understand the role of the baccalaureate-prepared nurse in enhancing quality improvement (QI) measures to address patient safety risk at a healthcare setting of your choice. You will do this by exploring the professional guidelines and best practices for improving and maintaining patient safety in healthcare settings from organizations such as QSEN (Quality and Safety Education for Nurses) and the IOM (Institute of Medicine). Looking through the lens of these professional best practices to examine the current policies and procedures in place at your chosen organization and the impact on safety measures for patients, 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 safety in your chosen healthcare setting.

See 

Nursing Competencies
 for more information.

Instructions

Select one of the safety quality issues presented in the 


Assessment 01 Supplement: Enhancing Quality and Safety [PDF]



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resource and incorporate evidence-based strategies to support communication and ensure safe and effective care.

For this assessment, be sure to focus on an organizational setting. This could be a primary care office, urgent care, mobile clinic, hospital ED, rural clinic, etc. Then use the literature to support the problem and solution in the organization. Reflect on costs to that organization/setting and what nurses can do to coordinate the care within the setting. Reflect on stakeholders who may be involved.

Be sure that your plan addresses the following, which corresponds to the grading criteria in the rubric. Please study the rubric carefully so you understand what is needed for a distinguished score.

· Explain factors leading to a specific patient safety risk.

· Explain evidence-based and best-practice solutions to improve patient safety related to a specific patient-safety risk and reduce costs.

· Explain how nurses can help coordinate care to increase patient safety and reduce costs.

· Identify stakeholders with whom nurses would need to coordinate to drive safety enhancements.

· Communicate using writing that is clear, logical, and professional, with correct grammar and spelling, using current APA style.

Additional Requirements

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Length of submission: 3–5 pages of content plus title and reference pages.

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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. Use the 

Capella University Library
 and 

BSN Nursing Program Library Guide
 as needed.

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APA formatting: References and citations are formatted according to current APA style. See the 

APA Module
.

Competencies Measured

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:

· Competency 1: Analyze the elements of a successful quality improvement initiative.

· Explain evidence-based and best-practice solutions to improve patient safety related to a specific patient safety risk and reduce costs.

· Competency 2: Analyze factors that lead to patient safety risks.

· Explain factors leading to a specific patient-safety risk in a healthcare setting.

· Competency 4: Explain the nurse’s role in coordinating care to enhance quality 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.

· Competency 5: Apply professional, scholarly, evidence-based strategies to communicate in a manner that supports safe and effective patient care.

· Organize content so ideas flow logically with smooth transitions; contains few errors in grammar or punctuation, word choice, and spelling.

· Apply APA formatting to in-text citations and references exhibiting nearly flawless adherence to APA format.

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