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Case Study: Creating a culture of safety in response to an adverse event in healthcare (110 points)
For this assignment, you will access the Saudi Digital Library to research a specific case of an adverse event that occurred in healthcare. Using the case that you have identified, you will write a research paper exploring the impact and importance of creating a safety culture in healthcare organizations.
Your research paper shall:
- Describe the adverse event that you selected as your case study. Include details of the patient outcome and the contributing factors involved in the adverse event.
- Evaluate the impact and importance of creating a patient safety culture in healthcare organizations.
- Create an improvement plan to address the issues that were identified in your adverse event case. Your plan shall include analysis of best practices in safety culture.
Your well-written paper should meet the following requirements:
- Four-to-five pages in length, not including the title or reference pages.
- Formatted per APA 7th edition and Saudi Electronic University standards.
- Provide support for your work with in-text citations from a minimum of four scholarly articles. Two of these sources may be from the class readings, textbook, or lectures, but two must be external. The Saudi Digital Library is a good place to find these references.
- Provide full APA references for the sources used on a reference page, along with appropriate in-text citations.
- Utilize headings to organize the content in your work.
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