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What strategies will you use in your new role in health care to review and critique. Strategies can come in many shapes and forms.Know there is a process to review and critique various types of literature. Look around on the Internet and in the library and find something that best suits your topic and the type of literature you will use. This is important to understand because next week an APA literature review is assigned.

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One of our objectives this week is to assess stakeholders, team roles, and leadership skills needed to bring about change. Create a flow process (doesn’t have to be formal you can list it in steps) that shows how you feel each of these impact the implementation of EBP when it comes to change.

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Nobody likes change” is a frequent comment, but creating a culture that allows for new ways of knowing takes a unique set of leadership skills. As a leader, how would you create a culture of change?Change can be one of the biggest challenges in an organization but even more so when the culture is not conducive and administration is resistant. Keep this in mind as you address changing an entire culture!

1. Select a tool, survey, or instrument, that can be use for an improvement project titled ” Determining the effect of in class education versus handing out printed education materials to patients whit uncontrolled diabetes Support with references.

2. Describe the chosen survey, instrument, or tool that you plan to use in your project. Describe the tool in terms of name, number of items, how it is answered (Likert scale, yes/no, open answers, etc.), and the total score. Describe the level of measurement for this instrument. Support with references (50-75 words)

3. Describe the validity and reliability of the instrument you chose in and explain how is this different from external and internal validity? (50-75 words)

 

The benchmark assesses the following competency:

4.2 Communicate therapeutically with patients.

The RN to BSN program at Grand Canyon University meets the requirements for clinical competencies as defined by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), using nontraditional experiences for practicing nurses. These experiences come in the form of direct and indirect care experiences in which licensed nursing students engage in learning within the context of their hospital organization, specific care discipline, and local communities.

Note:  The teaching plan proposal developed in this assignment will be used to develop your Community Teaching Plan: Community Presentation due in Topic 5. You are strongly encouraged to begin working on your presentation once you have received and submitted this proposal.

Select one of the following as the focus for the teaching plan: Primary Prevention/Health Promotion Secondary Prevention/Screenings for a Vulnerable Population Bioterrorism/Disaster Environmental Issues

Use the “Community Teaching Work Plan Proposal” resource to complete this assignment. This will help you organize your plan and create an outline for the written assignment. After completing the teaching proposal, review the teaching plan proposal with a community health and public health provider in your local community. Request feedback (strengths and opportunities for improvement) from the provider. Complete the “Community Teaching Experience” form with the provider. You will submit this form in Topic 5.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion. 

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the LopesWrite Technical Support articles for assistance.

 

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.

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
As the manager of a unit, you have been advised by the patient safety office of an alarming increase in the hospital safety score for your unit. This is a very serious public relations matter because patient safety data is public information. It is also a financial crisis because the organization stands to lose a significant amount of reimbursement money from Medicare and Medicaid unless the source of the problem can be identified and corrected. You are required to submit a safety score improvement plan to the organization’s leadership and the patient safety office.
Select a specific patient safety goal that has been identified by an organization, or one that is widely regarded in the nursing profession as relevant to quality patient care delivery, such as patient falls, infection rates, catheter-induced urinary infections, IV infections, et cetera.
Deliverable: Safety Score Improvement Plan
Develop a 3–5 page safety score improvement plan.
Identify the health care setting and nursing unit of your choice in the title of the mitigation plan. For example, “Safety Score Improvement Plan for XYZ Rehabilitation Center.” You may choose to use information on a patient safety issue for the organization in which you currently work, or search for information from a setting you are familiar with, perhaps from your clinical work. Demonstrate systems theory and systems thinking as you develop your recommendations. Organize your report with these headings:
Study of Factors
Identify a patient safety issue. Describe the influence of nursing leadership in driving the needed changes. Apply systems thinking to explain how current policies and procedures may affect a safety issue. Recommendations
Recommend an evidence-based strategy to improve the safety issue. Explain a strategy to collect information about the safety concern. How would you determine the sources of the problem? Explain a plan to implement a recommendation and monitor outcomes. What quality indicators will you use? How will you monitor outcomes? Will policies or procedures need to be changed? Will nursing staff need training? What tools will you need to do this? Additional Requirements
Written communication: Written communication should be free of errors that detract from the overall message. APA formatting: Resources and in-text citations should be formatted according to current APA style and formatting. Length: The plan should be 3–5 pages. Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point, double-spaced. Number of resources: Use a minimum of three peer-reviewed resources.

 Example of well graded paper attached to use as a reference.