EVALUATE the relationship between the patient’s care and the outcome.
Patient Safety in Nursing Practice Assessment

Question Description
ASSIGNMENT CONTENT

This assignment is designed to highlight the role you play in quality, safe patient care on a daily basis.

IDENTIFY a patient care case from your own practice experience that involves quality and safety.

Note: If you are not practicing or have nor practice, use a case that has received media attention or one from the textbook.

SUMMARIZE the situation.

DESCRIBE your (or the nurse’s) role in the patient care situation.

EXPLAIN the role the patient played in their own quality- or safety-related situation.

EVALUATE the relationship between the patient’s care and the outcome.

IDENTIFY how the care environment affected the situation, including the nurse or provider, the patient, and the outcome.

DETERMINE whether a quality model was employed. If yes, identify and explain it. If not, identify one that could have improved the situation.

EXPLAIN what actions you might take to improve the outcome or prevent an adverse outcome in the future.

FORMAT your assignment as one of the following:

18- to 20-slide presentation
3- to 4-minute podcast
15- to 20-minute oral presentation
875-word paper
Another format approved by your instructor
Submit your assignment.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.