Assignment: Quality Improvement for Patient Safety
This assessment is designed to highlight the role you play in high quality, safe patient care on a daily basis.
The Scenario
In an effort to continuously improve quality and safety, your manager has asked you to share one example of patient care from your experience. My submissions will be used to help facilitate an upcoming training. I am currently working in the hospital ICU.
In 700 to 875 words case study, address the following:
1) Identify a patient care case from your own practice experience that involves quality and safety. Note:?If you are not practicing or have not practiced, use a case that has received media attention or one from the textbook.
2) Summarize the situation.
3) Describe your (or the nurse's) role in the patient care situation.
4) Explain the role the patient played in their own quality- or safety-related situation.
5) Evaluate the relationship between the patient's care and the outcome.
6) Identify how the care environment affected the situation, including the nurse or provider, the patient, and the outcome.
7) Determine whether a quality model was employed. If yes, identify and explain it. If not, identify one that could have improved the situation.
8) Explain what actions you might take to improve the outcome or prevent an adverse outcome in the future.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
(1) The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
(2) The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
(3) Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.