Assignment: Write a 3-5 page safety score improvement plan for mitigating concerns, addressing a specific patient-safety goal that is relevant to quality patient care. Determine what a best evidence-based practice is and design a plan for resolving issues resulting from not maintaining patient safety.
Quality improvement and patient safety are health care industry imperatives (Institute of Medicine's Committee on Quality of Health Care in America, 2001). Effective quality improvement results in system and organizational change. This ultimately contributes to the creation of a patient safety culture.
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
1. Competency 1: Identify nursing leadership priorities using a systems perspective.
• Identify a patient safety issue.
2. Competency 2: Apply systems theory and systems thinking to facilitate health care delivery and patient outcomes.
• Apply systems thinking to explain how current policies and procedures may affect a safety issue.
• Explain a strategy to collect information about the safety concern.
• Explain a plan to implement a recommendation and monitor outcomes.
• Recommend an evidence-based strategy to improve the safety issue.
3. Competency 4: Evaluate how power relates to health care organizational structure, behavior, and leadership.
• Describe the influence of nursing leadership in driving the needed changes.
4. Competency 5: Communicate in a manner that is consistent with the expectations of a nursing professional.
• Write content clearly and logically, with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.
• Correctly format citations and references using current APA style.
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