Enhancing Quality and Safety

Enhancing Quality and Safety

For this assessment, you will develop a 3-5 page paper that examines a safety quality issue pertaining to medication administration in a health care 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.

Instructions

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

Be sure that your plan addresses the following, which corresponds to the grading criteria in the scoring guide:

· Explain factors leading to a specific patient-safety risk focusing on medication administration.

· Explain evidence-based and best-practice solutions to improve patient safety focusing on medication administration and reducing costs.

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

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

· Communicate using writing that is clear, logical, and professional, with correct grammar and spelling, using current APA 7 style.

Additional Requirements

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

· 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.

Demonstration of Proficiency

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

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

1. Explain evidence-based and best-practice solutions to improve patient safety focusing on medication administration and reducing costs.

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

2. Explain factors leading to a specific patient-safety risk focusing on medication administration.

1. Competency 4 : Explain the nurse’s role in coordinating care to enhance quality and reduce costs.

3. Explain how nurses can help coordinate care to increase patient safety with medication administration and reduce costs.

3. Identify stakeholders with whom nurses would need to coordinate to drive quality and safety enhancements with medication administration.

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

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

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