FOR THIS ASSIGNMENT, YOU NEED TO USE LABOR AND DELIVERY NURSING. CHOOSE A HOSPITAL IN DENVER COLORADO. OPTIONS INCLUDE:

GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL

200 EXEMPLA CIR

LAFAYETTE CO 80026

AVISTA ADVENTIST HOSPITAL

100 HEALTH PARK DR

LOUISVILLE CO 80027

Safety, Quality, and Informatics

Overview

For this assignment, you will identify a major patient safety issue within your own organization and then develop a plan using evidence-based best practices and technology to improve the safety issue. In this component, you will be demonstrating your competency in Program Outcomes 2, 3, 4, and 6:

Program Outcome 2: Safety and Quality Practices: Incorporate concepts of patient safety, clinical management, and quality improvement to improve patient outcomes.

Program Outcome 3: Nursing Research and Informatics: Incorporate evidence-based practice interventions (such as information systems or patient care technologies) as appropriate for managing the acute and chronic care of patients promoting health across the lifespan.

Program Outcome 4: Policy, Finance, and Regulations: Understand the scope and role of policy, finance, and regulatory environments in relationship to individual and population outcomes.

Program Outcome 6: Organizational and Systems Management: Apply knowledge of organizational behavior, nursing theory, and systems (micro and macro) as appropriate for the scope and role of one’s own practice.Before you begin, examine your organization’s history of safety in a specific area, and how your organization addresses patient safety issues. If possible, consult with a key stakeholder in the organization (such as an administrator) to better understand specific patient safety concerns and how the organization is working to resolve the concerns.

This person should also be able to discuss some of the organizational barriers impacting the patient safety issue. Next, look at the basic concepts, principles, and practices that contribute to organizational quality improvement and patient safety.

Review the literature for best practices and how technology might be used to improve the issue.

Finally, be sure to consider the legal and ethical implications associated with the safety issue; and possible organizational barriers to change.