structure, behavior, and leadership.

structure, behavior, and leadership.

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:

Competency 2: Apply systems theory and systems thinking to facilitate health care delivery and patient outcomes.
(IMPORTANT) Apply systems thinking to explain how current policies and procedures may affect an identified safety issue.
(IMPORTANT) Explain an evidence-based strategy to collect information about, and improve, an identified safety concern.
(IMPORTANT) Explain a plan to implement a recommendation and monitor outcomes.

Competency 4: Evaluate how power relates to health care organizational structure, behavior, and leadership.
9IMPORTANT) Describe the influence of nursing leadership in driving needed changes.

Competency 5: Communicate in a manner that is consistent with the expectations of a nursing professional.
(IMPORTANT) Write content clearly and logically, with correct use of grammar, punctuation, mechanics, and current APA style.
This is what need to be covered, resumed:

-Explain an evidence-based strategy to collect information about, and improve, an identified safety concern.

-Apply systems thinking to explain how current policies and procedures may affect an identified safety issue.

-Explain a plan to implement a recommendation and monitor outcomes.

-Describe the influence of nursing leadership in driving needed changes.

-Write content clearly and logically, with correct use of grammar, punctuation, mechanics, and current APA style.

Preparation
Refer to the Capella library and the Internet for supplemental resources to help you complete this assessment, a safety score improvement plan.

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

Hospital Safety Score, an independent nonprofit organization, uses national performance measures to determine the safety score for hospitals in the United States. The Hospital Safety Score Web site and other online resources provide hospital safety scores to the public.

Read the scenario below:

Scenario