Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Abilify Maintena and Invega Sustenna Questions

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Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Abilify Maintena and Invega Sustenna Questions

Please answer the following drug question attached. Please use outside sources and site them (use sources like PubMed). I need at least 2 – 3 paragraphs with work attached.

Drug Question:

Is there clinical justificaiton for administering Abilify Maintena every 3 weeks rather than every 4 weeks? Patient symptoms consistently become uncontrolled by week 3, but insurance will not pay early without evidence. If there is data for the same situation for Invega Sustenna, that would be helpful as this situation has come up in the past for both meds. Patient has a diagnoses of schizophrenia.

 

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Request: Is there clinical justification for administering Abilify Maintena every 3 weeks rather than every 4 weeks? Patient symptoms consistently become uncontrolled by week 3, but insurance will not pay early without evidence. If there is data for the same situation for Invega Sustenna, that would be helpful as this situation has come up in the past for both meds

 

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Child abuse and maltreatment is not limited to a particular age—it can occur in the infant, toddler, preschool, and school-age years. Choose one of the four age groups and outline the types of abuse most commonly seen among children of that age. Describe warning signs and physical and emotional assessment findings the nurse may see that could indicate child abuse. Discuss

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cultural variations of health practices that can be misidentified as child abuse. Describe the reporting mechanism in your state and nurse responsibilities related to the reporting of suspected child abuse.

Comparison of The Physical Assessment of A Child to That of An Adult Question

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Compare the physical assessment of a child to that of an adult. In addition to describing the similar/different aspects of the physical assessment, explain how the nurse would offer instruction during the assessment, how communication would be adapted to offer explanations, and what strategies the nurse would use to encourage engagement.

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NURS FPX 4040 Technology in Nursing Annotated Bibliography

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NURS FPX 4040 Technology in Nursing Annotated Bibliography

Description

Write a 4-6 page annotated bibliography where you identify peer-reviewed publications that promote the use of a selected technology to enhance quality and safety standards in nursing.

Before you begin to develop the assessment you are encouraged to complete the Annotated Bibliography Formative Assessment. Completing this activity will help you succeed with the assessment and counts towards course engagement. Assessment 3 Instructions: Annotated Bibliography on Technology in Nursing

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  • Write a 4-6 page annotated bibliography where you identify peer-reviewed publications that promote the use of a selected technology to enhance quality and safety standards in nursing.

Before you begin to develop the assessment you are encouraged to complete the Annotated Bibliography Formative Assessment. Completing this activity will help you succeed with the assessment and counts towards course engagement.

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Rapid changes in information technology go hand-in-hand with progress in quality health care delivery, nursing practice, and interdisciplinary team collaboration. The following are only a few examples of how the health care field uses technology to provide care to patients across multiple settings:

    • Patient monitoring devices.
    • Robotics.
    • Electronic medical records.
    • Data management resources.
    • Ready access to current science.

Technology is essential to the advancement of the nursing profession, maintaining quality care outcomes, patient safety, and research.

This assessment will give you the opportunity to deepen your knowledge of how technology can enhance quality and safety standards in nursing. You will prepare an annotated bibliography on technology in nursing. A well-prepared annotated bibliography is a comprehensive commentary on the content of scholarly publications and other sources of evidence about a selected nursing-related technology. A bibliography of this type provides a vehicle for workplace discussion to address gaps in nursing practice and to improve patient care outcomes. As nurses become more accountable in their practice, they are being called upon to expand their role of caregiver and advocate to include fostering research and scholarship to advance nursing practice. An annotated bibliography stimulates innovative thinking to find solutions and approaches to effectively and efficiently address these issues. NURS FPX 4040 Technology in Nursing Annotated Bibliography

Demonstration of Proficiency

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

    • Competency 3: Evaluate the impact of patient care technologies on desired outcomes.
      • Analyze current evidence on the impact of a selected patient care technology on patient safety, quality of care, and the interdisciplinary team.
      • Integrate current evidence about the impact of a selected patient care technology on patient safety, quality of care, and the interdisciplinary team into a recommendation.
    • Competency 4: Recommend the use of a technology to enhance quality and safety standards for patients.
      • Describe organizational factors influencing the selection of a technology in the health care setting.
      • Justify the implementation and use of a selected technology in a health care setting.
    • Competency 5: Apply professional, scholarly communication to facilitate use of health information and patient care technologies.
      • Create a clear, well-organized, and professional annotated bibliography that is generally free from errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
      • Follow APA style and formatting guidelines for all bibliographic entries.

Preparation

To successfully complete this assessment, perform the following preparatory activities:

    • Select a single direct or indirect patient care technology that is relevant to your current practice or that is of interest to you. Direct patient care technologies require an interaction, or direct contact, between the nurse and patient. Nurses use direct patient care technologies every day when delivering care to patients. Electronic thermometers or pulse oximeters are examples of direct patient care technologies. Indirect patient care technologies, on the other hand, are those employed on behalf of the patient. They do not require interaction, or direct contact, between the nurse and patient. A handheld device for patient documentation is an example of an indirect patient care technology. Examples of topics to consider for your annotated bibliography include:
      • Delivery robots.
      • Electronic medication administration with barcoding.
      • Electronic clinical documentation with clinical decision support.
      • Patient sensor devices/wireless communication solutions.
      • Real-time location systems.
      • Telehealth.
      • Workflow management systems.
    • Conduct a library search using the various electronic databases available through the Capella University Library.
      • Consult the BSN Program Library Research Guide for help in identifying scholarly and/or authoritative sources.
      • Access the NHS Learner Success Lab, linked in the courseroom navigation menu, for additional resources.
    • Scan the search results related to your chosen technology. NURS FPX 4040 Technology in Nursing Annotated Bibliography
    • Select four peer-reviewed publications focused on your selected topic that are the most interesting to you.
    • Evaluate the impact of patient care technologies on desired outcomes.
      • Analyze current evidence on the impact of a selected patient care technology on patient safety, quality of care, and the interdisciplinary team.
      • Integrate current evidence about the impact of a selected patient care technology on patient safety, quality of care, and the interdisciplinary team into a recommendation.

Notes

    • Publications may be research studies or review articles from a professional source. Newspapers, magazines, and blogs are not considered professional sources.
    • Your selections need to be current—within the last five years.

Annotated Bibliography

Prepare a 4–6 page annotated bibliography in which you identify and describe peer-reviewed publications that promote the use of your selected technology to enhance quality and safety standards in nursing. Be sure that your annotated bibliography includes all of the following elements:

    • Introduction to the Selected Technology Topic
      • What is your rationale for selecting this particular technology topic? Why are you interested in this?
      • What research process did you employ?
        • What databases did you use?
        • What search terms did you use?
        • Note: In this section of your bibliography, you may use first person since you are asked to describe your rationale for selecting the topic and the research strategies you employed. Use third person in the rest of the bibliography, however.
    • Annotation Elements
      • For each resource, include the full reference followed by the annotation.
      • Explain the focus of the research or review article you chose.
      • Provide a summary overview of the publication.
        • According to this source, what is the impact of this technology on patient safety and quality of care?
        • According to this source, what is the relevance of  this technology to nursing practice and the work of the interdisciplinary health care team? NURS FPX 4040 Technology in Nursing Annotated Bibliography
        • Why did you select this publication to write about out of the many possible options? In other words, make the case as to why this resource is important for health care practitioners to read.
    • Conclusion/Recommendation
      • How would you tie together the key learnings from each of the four publications you examined?
      • What organizational factors influence the selection of a technology in a health care setting? Consider such factors as organizational policies, resources, culture/social norms, commitment, training programs, and/or employee empowerment.
      • How would you justify the implementation and use of the technology in a health care setting? Consider the impact of the technology on the health care organization, patient care/satisfaction, and interdisciplinary team productivity, satisfaction, and retention.

Example Assessment: You may use the following to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like:

Additional Requirements

    • Written communication: Ensure written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
    • Length: 4–6-typed, double-spaced pages.
    • Number of resources: Cite a minimum of 4 peer-reviewed resources.
    • Font and font size: Use Times New Roman, 12 point.
    • APA: Follow APA style and formatting guidelines for all bibliographic entries.

Portfolio Prompt: Save your presentation to your ePortfolio. Submissions to the ePortfolio will be part of your final capstone course. NURS FPX 4040 Technology in Nursing Annotated Bibliography

Communication in the Health Care Environment Assignment

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Communication in the Health Care Environment Assignment

For this assessment, you will develop a Word document or an online resource repository of at least 12 annotated professional or scholarly resources that you consider critical for the audience of your safety improvement plan, pertaining to medication administration, to understand or implement to ensure the success of the plan.

Communication in the health care environment consists of an information-sharing experience whether through oral or written messages (Chard & Makary, 2015). As health care organizations and nurses strive to create a culture of safety and quality care, the importance of interprofessional collaboration, the development of tool kits, and the use of wikis become more relevant and vital. In addition to the dissemination of information and evidence-based findings and the development of tool kits, continuous support for and availability of such resources are critical. Among the most popular methods to promote ongoing dialogue and information sharing are blogs, wikis, websites, and social media. Nurses know how to support people in time of need or crisis and how to support one another in the workplace; wikis in particular enable nurses to continue that support beyond the work environment. Here they can be free to share their unique perspectives, educate others, and promote health care wellness at local and global levels (Kaminski, 2016). Communication in the Health Care Environment Assignment

 

You are encouraged to complete the Determining the Relevance and Usefulness of Resources activity prior to developing the repository. This activity will help you determine which resources or research will be most relevant to address a particular need. This may be useful as you consider how to explain the purpose and relevance of the resources you are assembling for your tool kit. The activity is for your own practice and self-assessment, and demonstrates course engagement.

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.
    • Analyze usefulness of resources for role group responsible for implementing quality and safety improvements with medication administration.
  • Competency 2: Analyze factors that lead to patient safety risks.
    • Analyze the value of resources to reduce patient safety risk or improve quality with medication administration.
  • Competency 3: Identify organizational interventions to promote patient safety.
    • Identify necessary resources to support the implementation and sustainability of a safety improvement initiative focusing on medication administration.
  • Competency 5: Apply professional, scholarly, evidence-based strategies to communicate in a manner that supports safe and effective patient care. Communication in the Health Care Environment Assignment
    • Present compelling reasons and relevant situations for resource tool kit to be used by its target audience.
    • Communicate resource tool kit in a clear, logically structured, and professional manner that applies current APA style and formatting. Communication in the health care environment Assignment

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References

Chard, R., & Makary, M. A. (2015). Transfer-of-care communication: Nursing best practices. AORN Journal, 102(4), 329–342.

Kaminski, J. (2016). Why all nurses can/should be authors. Canadian Journal of Nursing Informatics, 11(4), 1–7.

Professional Context

Nurses are often asked to implement processes, concepts, or practices—sometimes with little preparatory communication or education. One way to encourage sustainability of quality and process improvements is to assemble an accessible, user-friendly tool kit for knowledge and process documentation. Creating a resource repository or tool kit is also an excellent way to follow up an educational or in-service session, as it can help to reinforce attendees’ new knowledge as well as the understanding of its value. By practicing creating a simple online tool kit, you can develop valuable technology skills to improve your competence and efficacy. This technology is easy to use, and resources are available to guide you.

Scenario

For this assessment, consider taking one of these two approaches:

  1. Build on the work done in your first three assessments and create an online tool kit or resource repository that will help the audience of your in-service understand the research behind your safety improvement plan pertaining to medication administration and put the plan into action.
  2. Locate a safety improvement plan (your current organization, the Institution for Healthcare Improvement, or a publicly available safety improvement initiative) pertaining to medication administration and create an online tool kit or resource repository that will help an audience understand the research behind the safety improvement plan and how to put the plan into action.

Preparation

Google Sites is recommended for this assessment; the tools are free to use and should offer you a blend of flexibility and simplicity as you create your online tool kit. Please note that this requires a Google account; use your Gmail or GoogleDocs login, or create an account following the directions under the “Create Account” menu.

Refer to the following links to help you get started with Google Sites:

  • G Suite Learning Center. (n.d.). Get started with Sites. https://gsuite.google.com/learning-center/products/sites/get-started/#!/
  • Google. (n.d.). Sites. https://sites.google.com
  • Google. (n.d.). Sites help. https://support.google.com/sites/?hl=en#topic=

Instructions

Using Google Sites, assemble an online resource tool kit containing at least 12 annotated resources that you consider critical to the success of your safety improvement initiative. These resources should enable nurses and others to implement and maintain the safety improvement you have developed. Communication in the Health Care Environment Assignment

It is recommended that you focus on the 3 or 4 most critical categories or themes with respect to your safety improvement initiative pertaining to medication administration. For example, for an initiative that concerns improving workplace safety for practitioners, you might choose broad themes such as general organizational safety and quality best practices; environmental safety and quality risks; individual strategies to improve personal and team safety; and process best practices for reporting and improving environmental safety issues.

Following the recommended scheme, you would collect 3 resources on average for each of the 4 categories focusing on safety with medication administration. Each resource listing should include the following:

  • An APA-formatted citation of the resource with a working link.
  • A description of the information, skills, or tools provided by the resource.
  • A brief explanation of how the resource can help nurses better understand or implement the safety improvement initiative pertaining to medication administration.
  • A description of how nurses can use this resource and when its use may be appropriate.

Remember that you must make your site “public” so that your faculty can access it. Check out the Google Sites resources for more information.

Here is an example entry:

  • Merret, A., Thomas, P., Stephens, A., Moghabghab, R., & Gruneir, M. (2011). A collaborative approach to fall prevention. Canadian Nurse, 107(8), 24–29. www.canadian-nurse.com/articles/issues/2011/october-2011/a-collaborative-ap
    • This article presents the Geriatric Emergency Management-Falls Intervention Team (GEM-FIT) project. It shows how a collaborative nurse lead project can be implemented and used to improve collaboration and interdisciplinary teamwork, as well as improve the delivery of health care services. This resource is likely more useful to nurses as a resource for strategies and models for assembling and participating in an interdisciplinary team than for specific fall-prevention strategies. It is suggested that this resource be reviewed prior to creating an interdisciplinary team for a collaborative project in a health care setting.

Additionally, be sure that your plan addresses the following, which corresponds to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Please study the scoring guide carefully so you understand what is needed for a distinguished score.

  • Identify necessary resources to support the implementation and continued sustainability of a safety improvement initiative pertaining to medication administration.
  • Analyze the usefulness of resources to the role group responsible for implementing quality and safety improvements focusing on medication administration.
  • Analyze the value of resources to reduce patient safety risk related to medication administration.
  • Present compelling reasons and relevant situations for use of resource tool kit by its target audience.
  • Communicate in a clear, logically structured, and professional manner that applies current APA style and formatting.

Example Assessment: You may use the following example to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like but keep in mind that your tool kit will focus on promoting safety with medication administration. Note that you do not have to submit your bibliography in addition to the Google Site; the example bibliography is merely for your reference. Communication in the Health Care Environment Assignment

To submit your online tool kit assessment, paste the link to your Google Site in the assessment submission box.

Example Google Site: You may use the example Google Site, Resources for Safety and Improvement Measures in Geropsychiatric Care, to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like for this assessment but keep in mind that your tool kit will focus on promoting safety with medication administration.

Note: If you experience technical or other challenges in completing this assessment, please contact your faculty member.

Additional Requirements

  • APA formatting: References and citations are formatted according to current APA style. Communication in the health care environment Assignment

NURS FPX4020 Healthcare Providers Role in Medication Administration Plan

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NURS FPX4020 Healthcare Providers Role in Medication Administration Plan

NURS FPX4020 Healthcare Providers Role in Medication Administration Plan

Description

  • For this assessment, you will develop a Word document or an online resource repository of at least 12 annotated professional or scholarly resources that you consider critical for the audience of your safety improvement plan, pertaining to medication administration, to understand or implement to ensure the success of the plan. Communication in the health care environment consists of an information-sharing experience whether through oral or written messages (Chard & Makary, 2015). As health care organizations and nurses strive to create a culture of safety and quality care, the importance of interprofessional collaboration, the development of tool kits, and the use of wikis become more relevant and vital. In addition to the dissemination of information and evidence-based findings and the development of tool kits, continuous support for and availability of such resources are critical. NURS FPX4020 Healthcare Providers Role in Medication Administration Plan. Among the most popular methods to promote ongoing dialogue and information sharing are blogs, wikis, websites, and social media. Nurses know how to support people in time of need or crisis and how to support one another in the workplace; wikis in particular enable nurses to continue that support beyond the work environment. Here they can be free to share their unique perspectives, educate others, and promote health care wellness at local and global levels (Kaminski, 2016).You are encouraged to complete the Determining the Relevance and Usefulness of Resources activity prior to developing the repository. This activity will help you determine which resources or research will be most relevant to address a particular need. This may be useful as you consider how to explain the purpose and relevance of the resources you are assembling for your tool kit. The activity is for your own practice and self-assessment, and demonstrates course engagement. NURS FPX4020 Healthcare Providers Role in Medication Administration Plan

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  • 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.
      • Analyze usefulness of resources for role group responsible for implementing quality and safety improvements with medication administration.
    • Competency 2: Analyze factors that lead to patient safety risks.
      • Analyze the value of resources to reduce patient safety risk or improve quality with medication administration.
    • Competency 3: Identify organizational interventions to promote patient safety.
      • Identify necessary resources to support the implementation and sustainability of a safety improvement initiative focusing on medication administration.
    • Competency 5: Apply professional, scholarly, evidence-based strategies to communicate in a manner that supports safe and effective patient care.
      • Present compelling reasons and relevant situations for resource tool kit to be used by its target audience.
      • Communicate resource tool kit in a clear, logically structured, and professional manner that applies current APA style and formatting.
    • References
      Chard, R., & Makary, M. A. (2015). Transfer-of-care communication: Nursing best practices. AORN Journal, 102(4), 329–342.Kaminski, J. (2016). Why all nurses can/should be authors. Canadian Journal of Nursing Informatics, 11(4), 1–7.Professional Context
      Nurses are often asked to implement processes, concepts, or practices—sometimes with little preparatory communication or education. One way to encourage sustainability of quality and process improvements is to assemble an accessible, user-friendly tool kit for knowledge and process documentation. Creating a resource repository or tool kit is also an excellent way to follow up an educational or in-service session, as it can help to reinforce attendees’ new knowledge as well as the understanding of its value. By practicing creating a simple online tool kit, you can develop valuable technology skills to improve your competence and efficacy. This technology is easy to use, and resources are available to guide you.Scenario
      For this assessment, consider taking one of these two approaches:
    1. Build on the work done in your first three assessments and create an online tool kit or resource repository that will help the audience of your in-service understand the research behind your safety improvement plan pertaining to medication administration and put the plan into action. NURS FPX4020 Healthcare Providers Role in Medication Administration Plan
    2. Locate a safety improvement plan (your current organization, the Institution for Healthcare Improvement, or a publicly available safety improvement initiative) pertaining to medication administration and create an online tool kit or resource repository that will help an audience understand the research behind the safety improvement plan and how to put the plan into action.
    3. Preparation
      Google Sites is recommended for this assessment; the tools are free to use and should offer you a blend of flexibility and simplicity as you create your online tool kit. Please note that this requires a Google account; use your Gmail or GoogleDocs login, or create an account following the directions under the “Create Account” menu.Refer to the following links to help you get started with Google Sites:
    • G Suite Learning Center. (n.d.). Get started with Sites. https://gsuite.google.com/learning-center/products…
    • Google. (n.d.). Sites. https://sites.google.com
    • Google. (n.d.). Sites help. https://support.google.com/sites/?hl=en#topic=
    • Instructions
      Using Google Sites, assemble an online resource tool kit containing at least 12 annotated resources that you consider critical to the success of your safety improvement initiative. These resources should enable nurses and others to implement and maintain the safety improvement you have developed.It is recommended that you focus on the 3 or 4 most critical categories or themes with respect to your safety improvement initiative pertaining to medication administration. For example, for an initiative that concerns improving workplace safety for practitioners, you might choose broad themes such as general organizational safety and quality best practices; environmental safety and quality risks; individual strategies to improve personal and team safety; and process best practices for reporting and improving environmental safety issues.Following the recommended scheme, you would collect 3 resources on average for each of the 4 categories focusing on safety with medication administration. Each resource listing should include the following:
    • An APA-formatted citation of the resource with a working link.
    • A description of the information, skills, or tools provided by the resource.
    • A brief explanation of how the resource can help nurses better understand or implement the safety improvement initiative pertaining to medication administration.
    • A description of how nurses can use this resource and when its use may be appropriate.
    • Remember that you must make your site “public” so that your faculty can access it. Check out the Google Sites resources for more information.Here is an example entry:
    • Merret, A., Thomas, P., Stephens, A., Moghabghab, R., & Gruneir, M. (2011). A collaborative approach to fall prevention. Canadian Nurse, 107(8), 24–29. www.canadian-nurse.com/articles/issues/2011/octobe…
      • This article presents the Geriatric Emergency Management-Falls Intervention Team (GEM-FIT) project. It shows how a collaborative nurse lead project can be implemented and used to improve collaboration and interdisciplinary teamwork, as well as improve the delivery of health care services. This resource is likely more useful to nurses as a resource for strategies and models for assembling and participating in an interdisciplinary team than for specific fall-prevention strategies. It is suggested that this resource be reviewed prior to creating an interdisciplinary team for a collaborative project in a health care setting.
    • Additionally, be sure that your plan addresses the following, which corresponds to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Please study the scoring guide carefully so you understand what is needed for a distinguished score.
    • Identify necessary resources to support the implementation and continued sustainability of a safety improvement initiative pertaining to medication administration.
    • Analyze the usefulness of resources to the role group responsible for implementing quality and safety improvements focusing on medication administration.
    • Analyze the value of resources to reduce patient safety risk related to medication administration.
    • Present compelling reasons and relevant situations for use of resource tool kit by its target audience.
    • Communicate in a clear, logically structured, and professional manner that applies current APA style and formatting. NURS FPX4020 Healthcare Providers Role in Medication Administration Plan
    • Example Assessment: You may use the following example to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like but keep in mind that your tool kit will focus on promoting safety with medication administration. Note that you do not have to submit your bibliography in addition to the Google Site; the example bibliography is merely for your reference.
    • Assessment 4 Example [PDF].
    • To submit your online tool kit assessment, paste the link to your Google Site in the assessment submission box.Example Google Site: You may use the example Google Site, Resources for Safety and Improvement Measures in Geropsychiatric Care, to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like for this assessment but keep in mind that your tool kit will focus on promoting safety with medication administration.   Note: If you experience technical or other challenges in completing this assessment, please contact your faculty member.Additional Requirements. NURS FPX4020 Healthcare Providers Role in Medication Administration Plan

LC4003A Quality Improvement Processes Instructions

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LC4003A Quality Improvement Processes Instructions

LC4003A Assessment Instructions

Review the details of your assessment including the rubric. You will have the ability to submit the assessment once you submit your required self-assessments and engage with your Faculty Subject Matter Expert (SME) in a substantive way about the competency.

Overview

In this Performance Task Assessment, you will collect data associated with your practice problem in LC4002 and look for trends. You will either confirm or revise your practice problem, then apply a quality improvement process to it. LC4003A Quality Improvement Processes Instructions

Looking Ahead

Over the course of Competencies LC4002A – LC4005A, you will be going through the steps of your Quality Improvement Project which will be submitted in LC4005A. During each Competency, you will complete one or more parts of the final project, and in LC4005A, you will use these parts to create the final project.

This practice experience project has six parts:

  1. Analyze available evidence and identify a quality improvement practice problem;
  2. Conduct a literature search finding data and evidence-based solutions/interventions to support the importance of the quality improvement practice problem;
  3. Identify the quality improvement tools (Fishbone diagram, Pareto Chart, Process Flow Chart, etc.) that will display the data supporting the need for the Quality Improvement Project;
  4. Apply the PDSA process to the development of the Quality Improvement Project;
  5. Develop an evidence-based plan to address the quality improvement practice problem; and
  6. Present the final Quality Improvement Project as a comprehensive paper and quality improvement storyboard. LC4003A Quality Improvement Processes Instructions

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The practice experience is an active learning process that provides you with the opportunity to apply your nursing knowledge by addressing a quality improvement practice problem. The practice experience is comprised of selected onsite experiences and completion of a Quality Improvement Project with guidance from your subject matter expert. For additional information on the practice experience, follow this link: https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/fieldexperience/son/home

The practice experience guide can also be found here: https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/ld.php?content_id=45642029

Instructions

To complete this Assessment, do the following:

Before submitting your Assessment, carefully review the rubric. This is the same rubric the SME will use to evaluate your submission and it provides detailed criteria describing how to achieve or master the Competency. Many students find that understanding the requirements of the Assessment and the rubric criteria help them direct their focus and use their time most productively. LC4003A Quality Improvement Processes Instructions

Rubric

All submissions must follow the conventions of scholarly writing. Properly formatted APA citations and references must be provided where appropriate. Submissions that do not meet these expectations will be returned without scoring.

This Assessment requires submission of one (1) document, a completed Assessment Template, approximately 2- to 3-pages. Save the file as: LC4003A_firstinitial_lastname (for example, LC4003A_J_Smith)

You may submit a draft of your assignment to the Turnitin Draft Check area to check for authenticity. When you are ready to upload your completed Assessment, use the Assessment tab on the top navigation menu.

Important Note: As a student taking this Competency, you agree that you may be required to submit your Assessment for textual similarity review to Turnitin.com for the detection of plagiarism. All submitted Assessment materials will be included as source documents in the Turnitin.com reference database solely for the purpose of detecting plagiarism of such materials. Use of the Turnitin.com service is subject to the Usage Policy posted on the Turnitin.com site. LC4003A Quality Improvement Processes Instructions

Resources – LC4003A Quality Improvement Processes Instructions

Chapter 5, “Continuous Improvement” (pp. 134–137) Spath, P. (2018). Introduction to healthcare quality management (3rd ed.).

Healthcare Administration Press. Using Lean and Six Sigma in Healthcare American Society for Quality. (n.d.). Using lean and Six Sigma in healthcare [Video file]. https://videos.asq.org/using-lean-and-six-sigma-in-healthcare Plan-Do-Check-Act Cycle

American Society for Quality. (n.d.). What is the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle? http://asq.org/learn-about-quality/project-planning-tools/overview/pdca-cycle.html

What is Total Quality Management (TQM)? American Society for Quality. (n.d.). What is total quality management (TQM)?https://asq.org/quality-resources/total-quality-management

What is Six Sigma: A Complete Overview Kumar, P. (2020). What is Six Sigma: A complete overview. https://www.simplilearn.com/what-is-six-sigma-a-complete-overview-article

Improving Uptake of Cervical Cancer Screening Services for Women Living with HIV and Attending Chronic Care Services in Rural Malawi Talama, G. C., Shaw, M., Maloya, J., Chihana, T., Nazimera, L., Wroe, E. B., & Kachimanga, C. (2020). Improving uptake of cervical cancer screening services for women living with HIV and attending chronic care services in rural Malawi. BMJ Open Quality, 9(3). https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjoq-2019-000892

Continuous Quality Improvement and Comprehensive Primary Health Care: A Systems Framework to Improve Service Quality and Health Outcomes McCalman, J., Bailie, R., Bainbridge, R., McPhail-Bell, K., Percival, N., Askew, D., Fagan, R., & Tsey, K. (2018). Continuous quality improvement and comprehensive primary health care: A systems framework to improve service quality and health outcomes. Frontiers in Public Health, 6. 76. http://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2018.00076

The Effectiveness of Continuous Quality Improvement for Developing Professional Practice and Improving Health Care Outcomes: A Systematic Review Hill, J. E., Stephani, A. M., Sapple, P., & Clegg, A. J. (2020). The effectiveness of continuous quality improvement for developing professional practice and improving health care outcomes: A systematic review. Implementation Science, 15(1), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-020-0975-2

LC4003A: Quality Improvement Processes: Apply quality improvement processes. Assessment Rubric

Rubric Criteria Does Not Meet Expectations Meets Expectations Exceeds Expectations
Module 1: Quality Improvement Processes
Describe Six Sigma and the core elements associated with it. Response does not adequately describe Six Sigma or the elements associated with it. Response adequately describes Six Sigma and the elements associated with it. Response clearly and completely describes Six Sigma and the elements associated with it.
Learning Objective 1.1: Describe the elements of Six Sigma
Describe Plan-Do- Study-Act (PDSA) and the core elements associated with it. Response does not adequately describe PDSA or the elements associated with it. Response adequately describes PDSA and the elements associated with it. Response clearly and completely describes PDSA and the elements associated with it.
Learning Objective 1.2: Describe the elements of PDSA
Describe total quality management (TQM) and the core elements associated with it. Response does not adequately describe TQM or the elements associated with it. LC4003A Quality Improvement Processes Instructions Response adequately describes TQM and the elements associated with it. Response clearly and completely describes TQM and the elements associated with it.
Learning Objective 1.3: Describe the elements of TQM
Describe continuous quality improvement Response does not adequately describe CQI or Response adequately describes CQI and the Response clearly and completely describes CQI

 

Rubric Criteria Does Not Meet Expectations Meets Expectations Exceeds Expectations
(CQI) and the core elements associated with it. 

 

Learning Objective 1.4: Describe the elements of

CQI

 the elements associated with it. elements associated with it. and the elements associated with it.
Summarize the data that you found surrounding this practice problem at your practice experience facility. 

 

Learning Objective 1.5: Summarize data on nursing practice

problems

 Response does not adequately summarize the data that you found surrounding your selected problem at your practicum facility. Response adequately summarizes the data that you found surrounding your selected problem at your practicum facility. Response clearly and completely summarizes the data that you found surrounding your selected problem at your practicum facility.
Explain whether the data that you found supports the practice problem that you identified at your practice experience facility. 

 

Learning Objective 1.6: Apply data to nursing practice problems

 Response does not adequately explain whether the data that you found supports the practice problem that you identified at your practicum facility. LC4003A Quality Improvement Processes Instructions Response adequately explain whether the data that you found supports the practice problem that you identified at your practicum facility. Response clearly and completely explains whether the data that you found supports the practice problem that you identified at your practicum facility.

 

Rubric Criteria Does Not Meet Expectations Meets Expectations Exceeds Expectations
If the data shows that the selected practice problem is actually an issue, either state that it is unchanged, or make minor edits. If the data does not support that the practice problem is an issue at the facility, create a new practice problem that is supported by the data. 

 

Learning Objective 1.7: Verify nursing practice problems

 Response does not adequately verify or revise the selected practice problem. Response adequately verifies or revises the selected practice problem. Response thoughtfully verifies or revises the selected practice problem.
Explain how the information that you found about the practice problem might be addressed by a quality improvement process. 

 

Learning Objective 1.8: Analyze the use of quality improvement processes to address nursing practice problems

 Response does not adequately explain how the information that you found about the practice problem might be addressed by a quality improvement process. Response adequately explains how the information that you found about the practice problem might be addressed by a quality improvement process. Response clearly and completely explains how the information that you found about the practice problem might be addressed by a quality improvement process.

 

Rubric Criteria Does Not Meet Expectations Meets Expectations Exceeds Expectations
Module 2: Quality Improvement Processes in Action
Review the information about the Plan-Do-Study- Act (PDSA) process. 

Explain how you would apply this process to your selected practice problem to determine potential solutions to the practice problem.

 

Learning Objective 2.1: Apply PDSA to nursing practice problems to determine potential solutions

 Response does not adequately explain how you would apply PDSA to your selected practice problem, to determine potential solutions to the practice problem. Response adequately explains how you would apply PDSA to your selected practice problem, to determine potential solutions to the practice problem. Response clearly and completely explains how you would apply PDSA to your selected practice problem, to determine potential solutions to the practice problem. LC4003A Quality Improvement Processes Instructions
Describe the measures that should be analyzed after the intervention is applied to determine its success. 

 

Learning Objective 2.2: Describe measures to analyze after the intervention is applied to determine its success

 Response does not adequately describe the measures that should be analyzed after the intervention is applied to determine its success. Response adequately describes the measures that should be analyzed after the intervention is applied to determine its success. Response clearly and completely describes the measures that should be analyzed after the intervention is applied to determine its success.

Professional Skills Assessment

Professional Writing: Clarity, Flow, and Organization Content contains significant spelling, punctuation, and/or grammar/syntax errors. 

Writing does not demonstrate adequate sentence and paragraph structure and requires additional editing/proofreading. Key sections of presented content lack clarity, logical flow, and/or organization.

 Content contains few spelling, punctuation, and/or grammar/syntax errors. Writing demonstrates adequate sentence and paragraph structure and may require some editing. Content presented is satisfactorily clear, logical, and/or organized, but could benefit from additional 

editing/revision.

 Content is free from spelling, punctuation, and grammar/syntax errors. 

Writing demonstrates appropriate sentence and paragraph structure.

Content presented is clear, logical, and well-organized.
Professional Writing: Context, Audience, Purpose, and Tone Content minimally or does not demonstrate awareness of context, audience, and/or purpose. Writing is not reflective of professional/scholarly tone and/or is not free of bias. 

Style is inconsistent with the professional setting/workplace context and reflects the need for additional editing.

 Content demonstrates satisfactory awareness of context, audience, and purpose. Tone is adequately professional, scholarly, and/or free from bias, and style is mostly consistent with the professional setting/workplace context. Content clearly demonstrates awareness of context, audience, and purpose. Tone is highly professional, scholarly, and free from bias, and style is appropriate for the professional setting/workplace context.
Professional Writing: Originality, Source Credibility, and Attribution of Ideas Content does not adequately reflect original writing and/or paraphrasing. Writing demonstrates inconsistent adherence to reference requirements, including the use of credible 

evidence to support a claim,

 Content adequately reflects original writing and paraphrasing. Writing demonstrates adequate adherence to reference requirements, including the use of credible evidence to 

support a claim, with

 Content reflects original thought and writing and proper paraphrasing. 

Writing demonstrates full adherence to reference requirements, including the use of credible evidence to support a claim, with

 

with appropriate source attribution (when applicable) and reference. There are numerous and/or significant errors. LC4003A Quality Improvement Processes Instructions appropriate source attribution (when applicable) and references. There are one or two minor errors. appropriate source attribution (when applicable) and references.

LC4004A Quality Improvement Tools Assignment

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LC4004A Quality Improvement Tools Assignment

LC4004A Assessment Instructions

Review the details of your assessment including the rubric. You will have the ability to submit the assessment once you submit your required self-assessments and engage with your Faculty Subject Matter Expert (SME) in a substantive way about the competency. LC4004A Quality Improvement Tools Assignment

Overview

In this Assessment, you will analyze different quality improvement tools and apply one to the practice problem that you identified in LC4002A and either revised or affirmed in LC4003A.

Submission Length: 4- to 5-pages

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Looking Ahead

Over the course of Competencies LC4002A – LC4005A, you will be going through the steps of your Quality Improvement Project which will be submitted in LC4005A. During each Competency, you will complete one or more parts of the final project, and in LC4005A, you will use these parts to create the final project.

This practice experience project has six parts:

  1. Analyze available evidence and identify a quality improvement practice problem;
  2. Conduct a literature search finding data and evidence-based solutions/interventions to support the importance of the quality improvement practice problem;
  3. Identify the quality improvement tools (Fishbone diagram, Pareto Chart, Process Flow Chart, etc.) that will display the data supporting the need for the Quality Improvement Project;
  4. Apply the PDSA process to the development of the Quality Improvement Project;
  5. Develop an evidence-based plan to address the quality improvement practice problem; and
  6. Present the final Quality Improvement Project as a comprehensive paper and quality improvement storyboard. LC4004A Quality Improvement Tools Assignment

The practice experience is an active learning process that provides you with the opportunity to apply your nursing knowledge by addressing a quality improvement practice problem. The practice experience is comprised of selected onsite experiences and completion of a Quality Improvement Project with guidance from your subject matter expert. For additional information on the practice experience, follow this link: https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/fieldexperience/son/home

The practice experience guide can also be found here: https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/ld.php?content_id=45642029

Instructions

To complete this Assessment, do the following:

Before submitting your Assessment, carefully review the rubric. This is the same rubric the SME will use to evaluate your submission and it provides detailed criteria describing how to achieve or master the Competency. Many students find that understanding the requirements of the Assessment and the rubric criteria help them direct their focus and use their time most productively. LC4004A Quality Improvement Tools Assignment

Rubric

All submissions must follow the conventions of scholarly writing. Properly formatted APA citations and references must be provided where appropriate. Submissions that do not meet these expectations will be returned without scoring. LC4004A Quality Improvement Tools Assignment

This Assessment requires submission of one file that addresses each of the given prompts. Save your file as LC4004A_firstinitial_lastname (for example, LC4004A_J_Smith).

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Applying Quality Improvement Tools

The nursing professional uses a variety of tools when collecting and analyzing data. These tools can help with organizing and displaying as well as highlighting trends. In this Assessment, you will analyze several quality improvement tools, then apply one to your practice problem.

In a 4- to 5-page paper, address the following:

  • Analyze the fishbone diagram. Explain how the information presented in the fishbone diagram might be used to help inform nursing practice when preventing medication errors.
  • Analyze the Pareto chart. Include an explanation of how many medication errors there were and how this information might assist the nursing unit in preventing future medication errors.
  • Analyze the process flow chart. Explain how this information might be used to help inform nursing practice for the prevention of future medication errors.
  • Analyze the run chart as it relates to patient satisfaction with pain management. Explain whether the data in the run chart indicates improved or decreased satisfaction with pain management and defend your reasoning.
  • Consider the practice problem that you identified in LC4002 and either revised or affirmed in LC4003. Choose either a fishbone diagram, Pareto chart, process flow chart, or run chart, and apply it to the data relating to the practice problem (that you located in LC4002). LC4004A Quality Improvement Tools Assignment

LC4004A: Quality Improvement Tools: Analyze information from quality improvement tools. Assessment Rubric

Rubric Criteria Does Not Meet Expectations Meets Expectations Exceeds Expectations
Module 1: Fishbone Diagram
Analyze the fishbone diagram. 

 

Learning Objective 1.1: Analyze fishbone diagrams

 Response does not adequately analyze the fishbone diagram. Response adequately analyzes the fishbone diagram. Response clearly and completely analyzes the fishbone diagram.
Explain how the information presented in the fishbone diagram might be used to help inform nursing practice when preventing medication errors. 

 

Learning Objective 1.2: Analyze the use of fishbone diagrams in preventing medication

errors

 Response does not adequately explain how the information presented in the fishbone diagram might be used to help inform nursing practice when preventing medication errors. LC4004A Quality Improvement Tools Assignment Response adequately explains how the information presented in the fishbone diagram might be used to help inform nursing practice when preventing medication errors. Response clearly and completely explains how the information presented in the fishbone diagram might be used to help inform nursing practice when preventing medication errors.
Module 2: Pareto Chart
Analyze the Pareto chart. 

 

Learning Objective 2.1: Analyze Pareto charts

 Response does not adequately analyze the Pareto chart. Response adequately analyzes the Pareto chart. Response clearly and completely analyzes the Pareto chart.

  

Rubric Criteria Does Not Meet Expectations Meets Expectations Exceeds Expectations
Include an explanation of how many medication errors there were and how this information might assist the nursing unit in preventing future medication errors. 

 

Learning Objective 2.2: Explain medication error prevention information based on a Pareto chart

 Response does not adequately explain how many medication errors there were or how this information might assist the nursing unit in preventing future medication errors. Response adequately explains how many medication errors there were and adequately explains how this information might assist the nursing unit in preventing future medication errors. Response clearly and completely explain how many medication errors there were and thoroughly explains how this information might assist the nursing unit in preventing future medication errors. LC4004A Quality Improvement Tools Assignment
Module 3: Process Flow Chart
Analyze the process flow chart. 

 

Learning Objective 3.1: Analyze process flow charts

 Response does not adequately analyze the process flow chart. Response adequately analyzes the process flow chart. Response clearly and completely analyzes the process flow chart.
Explain how this information might be used to help inform nursing practice for the prevention of future medication errors. 

 

Learning Objective 3.2: Explain the use of process

flow charts in preventing medication errors

 Response does not adequately explain how the process flow chart information might be used to help inform nursing practice for the prevention of future medication errors. LC4004A Quality Improvement Tools Assignment Response adequately explains how the process flow chart information might be used to help inform nursing practice for the prevention of future medication errors. Response clearly and completely explains how the process flow chart information might be used to help inform nursing practice for the prevention of future medication errors.
Module 4: Run Chart
Analyze the run chart as it relates to patient Response does not adequately analyze the run Response adequately analyzes the run chart as it Response clearly and completely analyzes the

 

Rubric Criteria Does Not Meet Expectations Meets Expectations Exceeds Expectations
satisfaction with pain management. 

 

Learning Objective 4.1: Analyze run charts

 chart as it relates to patient satisfaction with pain management. relates to patient satisfaction with pain management. run chart as it relates to patient satisfaction with pain management.
Explain whether the data in the run chart indicates improved or decreased satisfaction with pain management. 

 

Learning Objective 4.2: Explain run chart data

 Response does not adequately explain whether the data in the run chart indicates improved or decreased satisfaction with pain management. LC4004A Quality Improvement Tools Assignment Response adequately explains whether the data in the run chart indicates improved or decreased satisfaction with pain management. Response clearly and completely explains whether the data in the run chart indicates improved or decreased satisfaction with pain management.
Defend your reasoning for whether the run chart indicates improved or decreased satisfaction with pain management. 

 

Learning Objective 4.3: Defend your assessment of run chart data

 Response does not adequately defend your reasoning for whether the run chart indicates improved or decreased satisfaction with pain management. Response adequately defends your reasoning for whether the run chart indicates improved or decreased satisfaction with pain management. Response clearly and completely defends your reasoning for whether the run chart indicates improved or decreased satisfaction with pain management.
Choose either a fishbone diagram, Pareto chart, process flow chart, or run chart, and apply it to the data relating to the practice problem. Response does not adequately select or apply a quality improvement tool to the data relating to the practice problem. Response adequately selects and applies a quality improvement tool to the data relating to the practice problem. Response clearly and completely selects and applies a quality improvement tool to the data relating to the practice problem.

 

Rubric Criteria Does Not Meet Expectations Meets Expectations Exceeds Expectations
Learning Objective 4.4: Apply quality improvement tools to nursing practice problems

Professional Skills Assessment

Professional Writing
Professional Writing: Clarity, Flow, and Organization Content contains significant spelling, punctuation, and/or grammar/syntax errors. 

Writing does not demonstrate adequate sentence and paragraph structure and requires additional editing/proofreading. Key sections of presented content lack clarity, logical flow, and/or organization.

 Content contains few spelling, punctuation, and/or grammar/syntax errors. Writing demonstrates adequate sentence and paragraph structure and may require some editing. Content presented is satisfactorily clear, logical, and/or organized, but could 

benefit from additional editing/revision.

 Content is free from spelling, punctuation, and grammar/syntax errors. 

Writing demonstrates appropriate sentence and paragraph structure.

Content presented is clear, logical, and well-organized.
Professional Writing: Context, Audience, Purpose, and Tone Content minimally or does not demonstrate awareness of context, audience, and/or purpose. Writing is not reflective of professional/scholarly tone and/or is not free of bias. 

Style is inconsistent with the professional setting/workplace context

 Content demonstrates satisfactory awareness of context, audience, and purpose. Tone is adequately professional, scholarly, and/or free from bias, and style is mostly consistent with the 

professional setting/workplace context. LC4004A Quality Improvement Tools Assignment

 Content clearly demonstrates awareness of context, audience, and purpose. Tone is highly professional, scholarly, and free from bias, and style is appropriate for the professional setting/workplace context.

 

and reflects the need for additional editing.
Professional Writing: Content does not Content adequately reflects Content reflects original
Originality, Source adequately reflect original original writing and thought and writing and
Credibility, and Attribution writing and/or paraphrasing. paraphrasing. Writing proper paraphrasing.
of Ideas Writing demonstrates demonstrates adequate Writing demonstrates full
inconsistent adherence to adherence to reference adherence to reference
reference requirements, requirements, including the requirements, including the
including the use of credible use of credible evidence to use of credible evidence to
evidence to support a claim, support a claim, with support a claim, with
with appropriate source appropriate source appropriate source
attribution (when applicable) attribution (when attribution (when applicable)
and reference. There are applicable) and references. and references.
numerous and/or significant There are one or two minor
errors. LC4004A Quality Improvement Tools Assignment errors.

LC4005A Improving Patient Quality and Safety Instructions Assignment

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LC4005A Improving Patient Quality and Safety Instructions

LC4005A Assessment Instructions

Review the details of your assessment including the rubric. You will have the ability to submit the assessment once you submit your required self-assessments and engage with your Faculty Subject Matter Expert (SME) in a substantive way about the competency.

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Overview

In this Assessment, you will complete a comprehensive paper and develop a quality improvement storyboard for your Quality Improvement Project. You will also submit a completed practice experience documentation form signed by the health professionals who collaborated with you in developing the Quality Improvement Project. LC4005A Improving Patient Quality and Safety Instructions

Submission Length: 4- to 5-page comprehensive paper and a quality improvement storyboard, and a completed practice experience documentation form.

Instructions

To complete this Assessment, do the following:

  • Be sure to adhere to the indicated assignment length.
  • Access the following:
  • Review the following website regarding the use of a quality improvement storyboard and provide examples of the information and interventions that need to be included in a storyboard: Multi-State Learning Collaborative. (n.d.). Guidelines for the development of quality improvement storyboards. https://www.naccho.org/uploads/downloadable-resources/document.pdf
  • Your deliverables for this Assessment include:
    • Part 1. Comprehensive Paper
    • Part 2. Storyboard
    • Part 3. Practice Experience Documentation Form

Before submitting your Assessment, carefully review the rubric. This is the same rubric the SME will use to evaluate your submission and it provides detailed criteria describing how to achieve or master the Competency. Many students find that understanding the requirements of the Assessment and the rubric criteria help them direct their focus and use their time most productively. LC4005A Improving Patient Quality and Safety Instructions Assignment

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Rubric

All submissions must follow the conventions of scholarly writing. Properly formatted APA citations and references must be provided where appropriate. Submissions that do not meet these expectations will be returned without scoring.

This Assessment requires submission of three files. Save your first file as LC4005A_firstinitial_lastname_part1 (for example, LC4005A_J_Smith_part1); save your second file as LC4005A_firstinitial_lastname_part2 (for example, LC4005A_J_Smith_part2); save your third file as LC4005A_firstinitlal_lastname_part3 (for example, LC4005A_J_Smith_part3)..

You may submit a draft of your assignment to the Turnitin Draft Check area to check for authenticity. When you are ready to upload your completed Assessment, use the Assessment tab on the top navigation menu.

Important Note: As a student taking this Competency, you agree that you may be required to submit your Assessment for textual similarity review to Turnitin.com for the detection of plagiarism. All submitted Assessment materials will be included as source documents in the Turnitin.com reference database solely for the purpose of detecting plagiarism of such materials. Use of the Turnitin.com service is subject to the Usage Policy posted on the Turnitin.com site.

Click each of the items below for more information on this Assessment.

Part 1. Comprehensive Paper

Your Comprehensive Paper provides the theoretical background to support your quality improvement practice problem and Quality Improvement Project. Many of the elements of this paper are parts of your Competency Assessments from previous competencies in this area of expertise. In a 4- to 5-page paper, address the following:

  • Describe the data-driven quality improvement practice problem you identified. (Use your submission and the SME feedback from LC4001A and LC4002A to help complete this section.)
  • Explain the importance of the quality improvement practice problem you identified for nursing practice. Support your explanation by synthesizing evidence-based literature found through a literature search, using a minimum of five (5) scholarly sources. (Use your submission and the SME feedback from LC4002A to complete this section) LC4005A Improving Patient Quality and Safety Instructions
  • Describe the quality improvement tools that will aid in the interpretation of the data that will support addressing the quality improvement practice problem you identified. (Use your submission and the SME feedback from LC4003A and LC4004A to help complete this section.) LC4005A Improving Patient Quality and Safety Instructions Assignment
  • Explain why these quality improvement tools are most useful in addressing your quality improvement practice problem. (Use your submission and the SME feedback from LC4004A to help complete this section.)
  • Explain how you would apply the PDSA quality improvement process to your quality improvement practice problem. Support your plan by synthesizing a minimum of five (5) pieces of scholarly evidence found through a literature search. (Use your submission and the SME feedback from LC4003A to help complete this section.)
    Be sure to integrate capstone-level writing guidelines in the completion of your Comprehensive Paper. This is an expectation of the completion of this program and is a requirement for future study in graduate school.

Part 2. Storyboard

A quality improvement storyboard is required for this Competency. The Practice Experience Project Storyboard is a brief, visual summary of a completed Quality Improvement initiative. The storyboard highlights key aspects of a quality improvement effort by documenting the Practice Experience Project from beginning to end. Note that you do not have to develop different information. You are presenting the same information that you wrote about in your paper. The Competency template uses a PowerPoint format to complete this assignment. The first slide is the summary of the Quality Improvement Project; the second slide is the reference page. Choose the most pertinent information from your Comprehensive Paper to complete the Storyboard. A template is provided to guide you as you develop your storyboard.

Part 3. Practice Experience Documentation Form

Your Practice Experience Documentation Form should be completed and signed by your mentor. In order to successfully complete this element, your mentor must indicate that you participated sufficiently in the practice experience.

Resources – LC4005A Improving Patient Quality and Safety Instructions

Chapter 20, “Managing Costs and Budgets” (pp. 358–376) Chapter 23, “Managing Quality and Risk” (pp. 407–427) Yoder-Wise, P. (2019). Leading and managing in nursing (7th ed.). Mosby Elsevier.

Chapter 10, “Managing Use of Health Care Resources” (pp. 249–280) Spath, P. (2018). Introduction to healthcare quality management (3rd ed.). Health Administration Press.

Melnyk, B. M. (2016). Improving healthcare quality, patient outcomes, and costs with evidence-based practice. https://nursingcentered.sigmanursing.org/features/more-features/Vol42_3_improving-healthcare-quality-patient-outcomes-and-costs-with-evidence-based-practice

Tschannen, D., Aebersold, M., Kocan, M. J., Lundy, F., & Potempa, K. (2015). Improving patient care through student leadership in team quality improvement projects. Journal of Nursing Care Quality, 30(2), 181–186. doi:10.1097/NCQ.0000000000000080

Minnesota Department of Health. (n.d.). Quality improvement storyboard. https://www.health.state.mn.us/communities/practice/resources/phqitoolbox/qistoryboard.html

Chapter 6, “Performance Improvement Tools: Quality Storyboards” (pp. 169–170) Spath, P. (2018). Introduction to healthcare quality management (3rd ed.). Health Administration Press. LC4005A Improving Patient Quality and Safety Instructions Assignment

LC4005: Improving Patient Quality and Safety: Apply quality improvement processes and tools as a scholar- practitioner to improve patient outcomes. Assessment Rubric

Rubric Criteria Does Not Meet Expectations Meets Expectations Exceeds Expectations
Module 1: Applying Quality Improvement Processes to Practice
Describe the data- driven quality improvement practice problem you identified. Response does not adequately describe the data-driven quality improvement practice problem that you identified. Response adequately describes the data-driven quality improvement practice problem that you identified. Response clearly and completely describes the data-driven quality improvement practice problem that you identified.
Learning Objective 1.1: Describe data-driven quality improvement practice problems
Explain the importance of the quality improvement practice problem you identified for nursing practice. Response does not adequately explain the importance of the quality improvement practice problem you identified for nursing practice. LC4005A Improving Patient Quality and Safety Instructions Response adequately explains the importance of the quality improvement practice problem you identified for nursing practice. Response clearly and completely explains the importance of the quality improvement practice problem you identified for nursing practice.
Learning Objective 1.2: Explain the importance of quality improvement practice problems in nursing practice
Support your Response does not Response adequately Response clearly and
explanation by adequately support your supports your explanation completely supports your
synthesizing evidence- explanation by by synthesizing evidence- explanation by
based literature found synthesizing evidence- based literature found synthesizing evidence-

  

Rubric Criteria Does Not Meet Expectations Meets Expectations Exceeds Expectations
through a literature search, using a minimum of five (5) scholarly sources. 

 

Learning Objective 1.3: Synthesize scholarly evidence

 based literature found through a literature search or does not use a minimum of 5 scholarly sources. through a literature search, using a minimum of 5 scholarly sources. based literature found through a literature search, using a minimum of 5 scholarly sources. LC4005A Improving Patient Quality and Safety Instructions
Describe the quality improvement tools that will aid in the interpretation of the data that will support addressing the quality improvement practice problem you identified. 

 

Learning Objective 1.4: Describe quality improvement tools used to interpret data related to quality improvement practice problems

 Response does not adequately describe the quality improvement tools that will aid in the interpretation of the data that will sill support addressing the quality improvement practice problem you identified. Response adequately describes the quality improvement tools that will aid in the interpretation of the data that will sill support addressing the quality improvement practice problem you identified. Response clearly and completely describes the quality improvement tools that will aid in the interpretation of the data that will sill support addressing the quality improvement practice problem you identified.
Explain why these quality improvement tools are most useful in addressing your quality improvement practice problem. Response does not adequately explain why these quality improvement tools are most useful in addressing your quality improvement practice problem. Response adequately explains why these quality improvement tools are most useful in addressing your quality improvement practice problem. Response clearly and completely explains why these quality improvement tools are most useful in addressing your quality improvement practice problem.

 

Rubric Criteria Does Not Meet Expectations Meets Expectations Exceeds Expectations
Learning Objective 1.5: Justify the use of quality improvement tools to address quality improvement practice problems
Explain how you would apply the PDSA quality improvement process to your quality improvement practice problem. 

 

Learning Objective 1.6: Apply quality improvement processes to quality improvement practice problems

 Response does not adequately explain how you would apply a quality improvement process to your quality improvement practice problem. LC4005A Improving Patient Quality and Safety Instructions Response adequately explains how you would apply a quality improvement process to your quality improvement practice problem. Response clearly and completely explains how you would apply a quality improvement process to your quality improvement practice problem.
Support your plan by synthesizing a minimum of five (5) pieces of scholarly evidence found through a literature search. 

 

Learning Objective 1.7: Synthesize scholarly evidence relating to quality improvement plans

 Response does not adequately support your plan by synthesizing a minimum of 5 pieces of scholarly evidence found through a literature search. LC4005A Improving Patient Quality and Safety Instructions Assignment Response adequately supports your plan by synthesizing a minimum of 5 pieces of scholarly evidence found through a literature search. Response clearly and completely supports your plan by synthesizing a minimum of 5 pieces of scholarly evidence found through a literature search.

 

Rubric Criteria Does Not Meet Expectations Meets Expectations Exceeds Expectations
Module 2: Developing a Storyboard
Create a storyboard for your quality improvement practice problem. 

 

Learning Objective 2.1: Create storyboards to display plans for quality improvement practice problems

 Response does not adequately create a storyboard for your quality improvement practice problem. Response adequately creates a storyboard for your quality improvement practice problem. Response creatively, thoughtfully, and completely creates a storyboard for your quality improvement practice problem.
Complete Practice Experience Documentation Form. 

 

Learning Objective 2.2: Justify successful practice experience through

documentation form

 Practice Experience Documentation Form is not signed and complete, or affirmative participation is not indicated. LC4005A Improving Patient Quality and Safety Instructions Practice Experience Documentation Form is signed and complete, and affirmative participation is adequately indicated. Practice Experience Documentation Form is signed and completed, and affirmative participation is exceeded as indicated by the mentor.

 Professional Skills Assessment

Professional Writing
Professional Writing: Content contains significant Content contains few Content is free from
Clarity, Flow, and spelling, punctuation, and/or spelling, punctuation, spelling, punctuation, and
Organization grammar/syntax errors. and/or grammar/syntax grammar/syntax errors.
Writing does not errors. Writing Writing demonstrates
demonstrate adequate demonstrates adequate appropriate sentence and
sentence and paragraph sentence and paragraph paragraph structure.
structure and requires structure and may require Content presented is clear,
additional some editing. Content logical, and well-organized.
editing/proofreading. Key presented is satisfactorily
sections of presented clear, logical, and/or

 

content lack clarity, logical flow, and/or organization. organized, but could benefit from additional editing/revision.
Professional Writing: Context, Audience, Purpose, and Tone Content minimally or does not demonstrate awareness of context, audience, and/or purpose. Writing is not reflective of professional/scholarly tone and/or is not free of bias. 

Style is inconsistent with the professional setting/workplace context and reflects the need for additional editing.

 Content demonstrates satisfactory awareness of context, audience, and purpose. Tone is adequately professional, scholarly, and/or free from bias, and style is mostly consistent with the professional setting/workplace context. Content clearly demonstrates awareness of context, audience, and purpose. Tone is highly professional, scholarly, and free from bias, and style is appropriate for the professional setting/workplace context.
Professional Writing: Originality, Source Credibility, and Attribution of Ideas Content does not adequately reflect original writing and/or paraphrasing. Writing demonstrates inconsistent adherence to reference requirements, including the use of credible evidence to support a claim, with appropriate source attribution (when applicable) and reference. There are numerous and/or significant errors. Content adequately reflects original writing and paraphrasing. Writing demonstrates adequate adherence to reference requirements, including the use of credible evidence to support a claim, with appropriate source attribution (when applicable) and references. There are one or two minor errors. Content reflects original thought and writing and proper paraphrasing. 

Writing demonstrates full adherence to reference requirements, including the use of credible evidence to support a claim, with appropriate source attribution (when applicable) and references. LC4005A Improving Patient Quality and Safety Instructions

NURS FPX4020 Medication Prescription Errors Improvement Plan Toolkit

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NURS FPX4020 Medication Prescription Errors Improvement Plan Toolkit

For this assessment, you will develop a Word document or an online resource repository of at least 12 annotated professional or scholarly resources that you consider critical for the audience of your safety improvement plan, pertaining to medication administration, to understand or implement to ensure the success of the plan.

Communication in the health care environment consists of an information-sharing experience whether through oral or written messages (Chard & Makary, 2015). As health care organizations and nurses strive to create a culture of safety and quality care, the importance of interprofessional collaboration, the development of tool kits, and the use of wikis become more relevant and vital. In addition to the dissemination of information and evidence-based findings and the development of tool kits, continuous support for and availability of such resources are critical. Among the most popular methods to promote ongoing dialogue and information sharing are blogs, wikis, websites, and social media. Nurses know how to support people in time of need or crisis and how to support one another in the workplace; wikis in particular enable nurses to continue that support beyond the work environment. Here they can be free to share their unique perspectives, educate others, and promote health care wellness at local and global levels (Kaminski, 2016).

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You are encouraged to complete the Determining the Relevance and Usefulness of Resources activity prior to developing the repository. This activity will help you determine which resources or research will be most relevant to address a particular need. This may be useful as you consider how to explain the purpose and relevance of the resources you are assembling for your tool kit. The activity is for your own practice and self-assessment, and demonstrates course engagement. NURS FPX4020 Medication Prescription Errors Improvement Plan Toolkit

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.
    • Analyze usefulness of resources for role group responsible for implementing quality and safety improvements with medication administration.
  • Competency 2: Analyze factors that lead to patient safety risks.
    • Analyze the value of resources to reduce patient safety risk or improve quality with medication administration.
  • Competency 3: Identify organizational interventions to promote patient safety.
    • Identify necessary resources to support the implementation and sustainability of a safety improvement initiative focusing on medication administration.
  • Competency 5: Apply professional, scholarly, evidence-based strategies to communicate in a manner that supports safe and effective patient care.
    • Present compelling reasons and relevant situations for resource tool kit to be used by its target audience.
    • Communicate resource tool kit in a clear, logically structured, and professional manner that applies current APA style and formatting. NURS FPX4020 Medication Prescription Errors Improvement Plan Toolkit
References

Chard, R., & Makary, M. A. (2015). Transfer-of-care communication: Nursing best practices. AORN Journal, 102(4), 329–342.

Kaminski, J. (2016). Why all nurses can/should be authors. Canadian Journal of Nursing Informatics, 11(4), 1–7.

PROFESSIONAL CONTEXT

Nurses are often asked to implement processes, concepts, or practices—sometimes with little preparatory communication or education. One way to encourage sustainability of quality and process improvements is to assemble an accessible, user-friendly tool kit for knowledge and process documentation. Creating a resource repository or tool kit is also an excellent way to follow up an educational or in-service session, as it can help to reinforce attendees’ new knowledge as well as the understanding of its value. By practicing creating a simple online tool kit, you can develop valuable technology skills to improve your competence and efficacy. This technology is easy to use, and resources are available to guide you.

SCENARIO

For this assessment, consider taking this approach

  1. Build on the work done in your first three assessments and create an online tool kit or resource repository that will help the audience of your in-service understand the research behind your safety improvement plan pertaining to medication administration and put the plan into action.

INSTRUCTIONS

Using Google Sites or a word document, assemble an online resource tool kit containing at least 12 annotated resources that you consider critical to the success of your safety improvement initiative. These resources should enable nurses and others to implement and maintain the safety improvement you have developed.

It is recommended that you focus on the 3 or 4 most critical categories or themes with respect to your safety improvement initiative pertaining to medication administration. For example, for an initiative that concerns improving workplace safety for practitioners, you might choose broad themes such as general organizational safety and quality best practices; environmental safety and quality risks; individual strategies to improve personal and team safety; and process best practices for reporting and improving environmental safety issues.

Following the recommended scheme, you would collect 3 resources on average for each of the 4 categories focusing on safety with medication administration. Each resource listing should include the following:

  • An APA-formatted citation of the resource with a working link.
  • A description of the information, skills, or tools provided by the resource.
  • A brief explanation of how the resource can help nurses better understand or implement the safety improvement initiative pertaining to medication administration.
  • A description of how nurses can use this resource and when its use may be appropriate. NURS FPX4020 Medication Prescription Errors Improvement Plan Toolkit

Remember that you must make your site “public” so that your faculty can access it. Check out the Google Sites resources for more information.

Here is an example entry:

  • Merret, A., Thomas, P., Stephens, A., Moghabghab, R., & Gruneir, M. (2011). A collaborative approach to fall prevention. Canadian Nurse, 107(8), 24–29. www.canadian-nurse.com/articles/issues/2011/octobe…
    • This article presents the Geriatric Emergency Management-Falls Intervention Team (GEM-FIT) project. It shows how a collaborative nurse lead project can be implemented and used to improve collaboration and interdisciplinary teamwork, as well as improve the delivery of health care services. This resource is likely more useful to nurses as a resource for strategies and models for assembling and participating in an interdisciplinary team than for specific fall-prevention strategies. It is suggested that this resource be reviewed prior to creating an interdisciplinary team for a collaborative project in a health care setting.

Additionally, be sure that your plan addresses the following, which corresponds to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Please study the scoring guide carefully so you understand what is needed for a distinguished score.

  • Identify necessary resources to support the implementation and continued sustainability of a safety improvement initiative pertaining to medication administration.
  • Analyze the usefulness of resources to the role group responsible for implementing quality and safety improvements focusing on medication administration.
  • Analyze the value of resources to reduce patient safety risk related to medication administration.
  • Present compelling reasons and relevant situations for use of resource tool kit by its target audience.
  • Communicate in a clear, logically structured, and professional manner that applies current APA style and formatting.

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Example Assessment: You may use the following example to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like but keep in mind that your tool kit will focus on promoting safety with medication administration. Note that you do not have to submit your bibliography in addition to the Google Site; the example bibliography is merely for your reference.

To submit your online tool kit assessment, paste the link to your Google Site in the assessment submission box.

Example Google Site: You may use the example Google Site, Resources for Safety and Improvement Measures in Geropsychiatric Care, to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like for this assessment but keep in mind that your tool kit will focus on promoting safety with medication administration.

Note: If you experience technical or other challenges in completing this assessment, please contact your faculty member. NURS FPX4020 Medication Prescription Errors Improvement Plan Toolkit