Safety Score Improvement Plan Scoring Guide Grading Rubric
Criteria Non-performance Basic Proficient Distinguished
Identify a patient safety issue. Does not identify a patient safety
issue.
Identifies patient safety concerns in general,
but does not identify a specific issue.
Identifies a patient safety issue. Identifies a patient safety issue and explains why the
issue is a primary concern for nursing.
Describe the influence of nursing
leadership in driving needed changes.
Does not describe the influence of
nursing leadership in driving the
needed changes.
Describes the influence of nursing leadership in
general terms but does not describe how
nursing leadership can drive change.
Describes the influence of
nursing leadership in driving the
needed changes.
Describes the influence of nursing leadership as a
driving force for changes that affect patient safety
and quality outcomes, and provides a specific
example of driving a needed change.
Apply systems thinking to explain how
current policies and procedures may
affect a safety issue.
Does not apply systems thinking to
explain how current policies and
procedures may affect a safety
issue.
Identifies leadership and structure responsible
for current policies and procedures, but does
not apply systems thinking to explain the
connection to patient safety.
Applies systems thinking to
explain how current policies and
procedures may affect a safety
issue.
Applies systems thinking to explain how current
policies and procedures may affect a safety issue,
and includes a discussion of how staff could monitor
systems and implement safeguards.
Explain a strategy to collect
information about the safety concern.
Does not explain a strategy to
collect information about the safety
concern.
Identifies several strategies to collect
information about the safety concern, but does
not explain one strategy.
Explains a strategy to collect
information about the safety
concern.
Explains a strategy to collect information about the
safety concern and how it could be implemented,
and identifies possible obstacles to obtaining
information.
Recommend an evidence-based strategy
to improve the safety issue.
Does not recommend an evidence-
based strategy to improve the
safety issue.
Describes strategies for improving a safety
issue, but does not indicate if it is evidence
based.
Recommends an evidence-based
strategy to improve the safety
issue.
Recommends an evidence-based strategy to improve
the safety issue, and identifies potential limitations
of the strategy.
Explain a plan to implement a
recommendation and monitor
outcomes.
Does not explain a plan to
implement a recommendation and
monitor outcomes.
Makes a recommendation, but does not explain
how it will be implemented.
Explains a plan to implement a
recommendation and monitor
outcomes.
Explains a plan to implement a recommendation and
monitor outcomes, and specifies quality indicators
and.
PREPARATIONConsider the hospital-acquired conditions that ar.docxkeilenettie
PREPARATION
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-te ...
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Safety, Quality, and Informatics Scoring Guide
CRITERIA NON-PERFORMANCE BASIC PROFICIENT DISTINGUISHED
Describe a patient-
safety issue.
Does not describe a
patient-safety issue.
Identifies but does not
describe a patient-
safety issue.
Describes a patient-
safety issue.
Describes a patient-
safety issue and
explores likely causes
of the issue.
Compare currently
used organizational
processes for
handling patient-
safety issues with
concepts, principles,
and practices that
contribute to quality
improvement and
patient safety.
Does not compare
currently used
organizational
processes for
handling patient
safety issues with
concepts, principles,
and practices that
contribute to quality
improvement and
patient safety.
Describes currently
used organizational
processes for handling
patient safety issues
but does not compare
them with concepts,
principles, and
practices that
contribute to quality
improvement and
patient safety.
Compares currently
used organizational
processes for
handling patient
safety issues with
concepts, principles,
and practices that
contribute to quality
improvement and
patient safety.
Evaluates currently
used organizational
processes for handling
patient safety issues in
terms of the evidence-
based concepts,
principles, and
practices that
contribute to quality
improvement and
patient safety.
Analyze the legal
and ethical
consequences of
not addressing
patient-safety
issues.
Does not analyze the
legal and ethical
consequences of not
addressing patient-
safety issues.
Describes the legal
and ethical
consequences of not
addressing patient-
safety issues.
Analyzes the legal
and ethical
consequences of not
addressing patient-
safety issues.
Analyzes the legal and
ethical consequences
of not addressing
patient-safety issues
and describes the
impact on the
organization from a
financial and
regulatory perspective.
Recommend
evidence-based
interventions to
address specific
patient-safety
issues.
Does not recommend
evidence-based
interventions to
address specific
patient-safety issues.
Identifies interventions
to address specific
patient-safety issues
but does not provide
evidence to support
the interventions.
Recommends
evidence-based
interventions to
address specific
patient-safety issues.
Evaluates evidence-
based interventions to
address specific
patient-safety issues
to determine the most
appropriate
intervention for the
organization and the
safety issue.
Explain how
technology can be
used to improve
patient safety.
Does not explain how
technology can be
used to improve
patient safety.
Explains how
technology can be
used in health care but
does not connect the
use of technology to
patient safety.
Explains how
technology can be
used to improve
patient safety.
Analyzes how
technology can be
used to improve
patient safety.
Identify
organizational
barriers to change.
Does .
Outcome Measures Issues Opportunities in Healthcare Organizations.docxsdfghj21
The document provides guidance for a 6-page report on outcome measures, issues, and opportunities in healthcare organizations. It outlines competencies the report should demonstrate, such as analyzing quality outcomes from an administrative perspective and determining how organizational functions affect measures. The report should identify relevant outcomes and measures, performance issues, and a strategy for change using a model. Resources are provided on quality improvement, measures, and writing.
This document provides instructions for conducting a root-cause analysis and creating a safety improvement plan for a quality or safety issue in a healthcare setting. Nurses can play a key role in performing root-cause analyses to identify underlying causes of problems and developing plans to prevent recurrences. The analysis should identify the root cause of a specific patient safety issue or sentinel event, while the safety improvement plan should apply evidence-based strategies to address the issue and leverage existing organizational resources.
This document provides resources and instructions for conducting a root cause analysis of a medical error or safety issue related to medication administration. Students are asked to choose a safety concern from a previous assessment or personal experience and analyze the root cause. They then develop a safety improvement plan using best practices and existing organizational resources. The goal is to demonstrate understanding of root cause analysis and developing plans to improve patient safety regarding medication administration.
· Write an executive summary, 4-5 pages in length, of existing out.docxlillie234567
· Write an executive summary, 4-5 pages in length, of existing outcome measures related to a performance issue uncovered in your gap analysis that you intend to address.
Introduction
Note: Each assessment in this course builds on the work you completed in the previous assessment. Therefore, you must complete the assessments in this course in the order in which they are presented.
As a nurse leader, you must be able to access, identify, and describe outcome measures as they relate to safety and quality problems in your organization.
This assessment provides an opportunity to examine existing outcome measures, assess their strategic value, and present your findings to executive leaders in a manner that will help you gain their support.
Quality and safety are everyone's responsibility as a team of interprofessional care delivery partners. Together we develop policies that support quality and safe care delivery. As part of the interprofessional team, nurses are leaders in care and thus are responsible and accountable for leading and providing safe quality care.
Health care delivery is structured around evidenced-based information. Quality is defined by exploring proven, evidenced-based information. After reviewing and defining evidenced-based information, the interprofessional team applies this knowledge to assess the organization's or the practice setting's ability to provide evidenced-based care delivery. When a gap in care is identified, it is important to propose an evidenced-based change and to execute a plan for improved care.
Your summary of relevant outcome measures is based on your findings from the quality and safety gap analysis you completed in the previous assessment.
Preparation
Your analysis of the gap between current and desired performance was the first step toward improving outcomes. You now have the information you need to move forward with proposed changes. Your next step is to focus on existing outcome measures and their relationship to the systemic problem you are addressing. For this assessment, you have been asked to draft a summary of existing outcome measures for your organization's executive team to raise awareness of the problem and the strategic value of existing measures.
Note: As you revise your writing, check out the resources listed on the Writing Center's
Writing Supportpage.
As you prepare to complete this assessment, you may want to think about other related issues to deepen your understanding or broaden your viewpoint. You are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of your professional community. Note that these questions are for your own development and exploration and do not need to be completed or submitted as part of your assessment.
Building stakeholder support is crucial to fostering and sustaining change. Therefore, as you approach this assessment, think about the stakeholders w.
Adverse event or near miss from your nursing experience.docxwrite22
This document provides instructions for an assignment analyzing an adverse event or near miss from a nursing experience. Students are asked to write a 5-7 page paper analyzing an event, including: the missed steps or protocol deviations that led to the event; implications for stakeholders; quality improvement technologies that could prevent recurrence; relevant metrics supporting the need for improvement; and a proposed quality improvement initiative. The analysis should be communicated professionally and logically, integrating at least 5 scholarly sources and using correct APA style formatting.
This document provides instructions for an assignment analyzing an adverse event or near miss from a nursing experience. Students are asked to write a 5-7 page paper integrating research on the event to propose a quality improvement initiative. The analysis should evaluate the causes of the event, implications for stakeholders, appropriate safety technologies, and metrics supporting the need for improvement. Based on this information, students should outline solutions to prevent similar future incidents. The analysis must address all criteria in the scoring guide and be communicated professionally using correct APA formatting for citations and references.
PREPARATIONConsider the hospital-acquired conditions that ar.docxkeilenettie
PREPARATION
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-te ...
Safety, Quality, and Informatics Scoring GuideCRITERIA NON.docxanhlodge
Safety, Quality, and Informatics Scoring Guide
CRITERIA NON-PERFORMANCE BASIC PROFICIENT DISTINGUISHED
Describe a patient-
safety issue.
Does not describe a
patient-safety issue.
Identifies but does not
describe a patient-
safety issue.
Describes a patient-
safety issue.
Describes a patient-
safety issue and
explores likely causes
of the issue.
Compare currently
used organizational
processes for
handling patient-
safety issues with
concepts, principles,
and practices that
contribute to quality
improvement and
patient safety.
Does not compare
currently used
organizational
processes for
handling patient
safety issues with
concepts, principles,
and practices that
contribute to quality
improvement and
patient safety.
Describes currently
used organizational
processes for handling
patient safety issues
but does not compare
them with concepts,
principles, and
practices that
contribute to quality
improvement and
patient safety.
Compares currently
used organizational
processes for
handling patient
safety issues with
concepts, principles,
and practices that
contribute to quality
improvement and
patient safety.
Evaluates currently
used organizational
processes for handling
patient safety issues in
terms of the evidence-
based concepts,
principles, and
practices that
contribute to quality
improvement and
patient safety.
Analyze the legal
and ethical
consequences of
not addressing
patient-safety
issues.
Does not analyze the
legal and ethical
consequences of not
addressing patient-
safety issues.
Describes the legal
and ethical
consequences of not
addressing patient-
safety issues.
Analyzes the legal
and ethical
consequences of not
addressing patient-
safety issues.
Analyzes the legal and
ethical consequences
of not addressing
patient-safety issues
and describes the
impact on the
organization from a
financial and
regulatory perspective.
Recommend
evidence-based
interventions to
address specific
patient-safety
issues.
Does not recommend
evidence-based
interventions to
address specific
patient-safety issues.
Identifies interventions
to address specific
patient-safety issues
but does not provide
evidence to support
the interventions.
Recommends
evidence-based
interventions to
address specific
patient-safety issues.
Evaluates evidence-
based interventions to
address specific
patient-safety issues
to determine the most
appropriate
intervention for the
organization and the
safety issue.
Explain how
technology can be
used to improve
patient safety.
Does not explain how
technology can be
used to improve
patient safety.
Explains how
technology can be
used in health care but
does not connect the
use of technology to
patient safety.
Explains how
technology can be
used to improve
patient safety.
Analyzes how
technology can be
used to improve
patient safety.
Identify
organizational
barriers to change.
Does .
Outcome Measures Issues Opportunities in Healthcare Organizations.docxsdfghj21
The document provides guidance for a 6-page report on outcome measures, issues, and opportunities in healthcare organizations. It outlines competencies the report should demonstrate, such as analyzing quality outcomes from an administrative perspective and determining how organizational functions affect measures. The report should identify relevant outcomes and measures, performance issues, and a strategy for change using a model. Resources are provided on quality improvement, measures, and writing.
This document provides instructions for conducting a root-cause analysis and creating a safety improvement plan for a quality or safety issue in a healthcare setting. Nurses can play a key role in performing root-cause analyses to identify underlying causes of problems and developing plans to prevent recurrences. The analysis should identify the root cause of a specific patient safety issue or sentinel event, while the safety improvement plan should apply evidence-based strategies to address the issue and leverage existing organizational resources.
This document provides resources and instructions for conducting a root cause analysis of a medical error or safety issue related to medication administration. Students are asked to choose a safety concern from a previous assessment or personal experience and analyze the root cause. They then develop a safety improvement plan using best practices and existing organizational resources. The goal is to demonstrate understanding of root cause analysis and developing plans to improve patient safety regarding medication administration.
· Write an executive summary, 4-5 pages in length, of existing out.docxlillie234567
· Write an executive summary, 4-5 pages in length, of existing outcome measures related to a performance issue uncovered in your gap analysis that you intend to address.
Introduction
Note: Each assessment in this course builds on the work you completed in the previous assessment. Therefore, you must complete the assessments in this course in the order in which they are presented.
As a nurse leader, you must be able to access, identify, and describe outcome measures as they relate to safety and quality problems in your organization.
This assessment provides an opportunity to examine existing outcome measures, assess their strategic value, and present your findings to executive leaders in a manner that will help you gain their support.
Quality and safety are everyone's responsibility as a team of interprofessional care delivery partners. Together we develop policies that support quality and safe care delivery. As part of the interprofessional team, nurses are leaders in care and thus are responsible and accountable for leading and providing safe quality care.
Health care delivery is structured around evidenced-based information. Quality is defined by exploring proven, evidenced-based information. After reviewing and defining evidenced-based information, the interprofessional team applies this knowledge to assess the organization's or the practice setting's ability to provide evidenced-based care delivery. When a gap in care is identified, it is important to propose an evidenced-based change and to execute a plan for improved care.
Your summary of relevant outcome measures is based on your findings from the quality and safety gap analysis you completed in the previous assessment.
Preparation
Your analysis of the gap between current and desired performance was the first step toward improving outcomes. You now have the information you need to move forward with proposed changes. Your next step is to focus on existing outcome measures and their relationship to the systemic problem you are addressing. For this assessment, you have been asked to draft a summary of existing outcome measures for your organization's executive team to raise awareness of the problem and the strategic value of existing measures.
Note: As you revise your writing, check out the resources listed on the Writing Center's
Writing Supportpage.
As you prepare to complete this assessment, you may want to think about other related issues to deepen your understanding or broaden your viewpoint. You are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of your professional community. Note that these questions are for your own development and exploration and do not need to be completed or submitted as part of your assessment.
Building stakeholder support is crucial to fostering and sustaining change. Therefore, as you approach this assessment, think about the stakeholders w.
Adverse event or near miss from your nursing experience.docxwrite22
This document provides instructions for an assignment analyzing an adverse event or near miss from a nursing experience. Students are asked to write a 5-7 page paper analyzing an event, including: the missed steps or protocol deviations that led to the event; implications for stakeholders; quality improvement technologies that could prevent recurrence; relevant metrics supporting the need for improvement; and a proposed quality improvement initiative. The analysis should be communicated professionally and logically, integrating at least 5 scholarly sources and using correct APA style formatting.
This document provides instructions for an assignment analyzing an adverse event or near miss from a nursing experience. Students are asked to write a 5-7 page paper integrating research on the event to propose a quality improvement initiative. The analysis should evaluate the causes of the event, implications for stakeholders, appropriate safety technologies, and metrics supporting the need for improvement. Based on this information, students should outline solutions to prevent similar future incidents. The analysis must address all criteria in the scoring guide and be communicated professionally using correct APA formatting for citations and references.
Write a comprehensive analysis (5-7 pages) of an adverse event or ne.docxsmithhedwards48727
Write a comprehensive analysis (5-7 pages) of an adverse event or near miss from your nursing experience. Integrate research and data on the event to propose a quality improvement (QI) initiative to your current organization.
Health care organizations strive to create a culture of safety. Despite technological advances, quality care initiatives, oversight, ongoing education and training, legislation, and regulations, medical errors continue to be made. Some are small and easily remedied with the patient unaware of the infraction. Others can be catastrophic and irreversible, altering the lives of patients and their caregivers and unleashing massive reforms and costly litigation. Many errors are attributable to ineffective interprofessional communication.
This assessment’s goal is to address a specific event in a health care setting that impacts patient safety and related organizational vulnerabilities with a quality improvement initiative to prevent future incidents.
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 1: Plan quality improvement initiatives in response to adverse events and near-miss analyses.
Evaluate quality improvement technologies related to the event that are required to reduce risk and increase patient safety.
Analyze the missed steps or protocol deviations related to an adverse event or near miss.
Analyze the implications of the adverse event or near miss for all stakeholders.
Outline a quality improvement initiative to prevent a similar adverse event or near miss.
Competency 3: Evaluate quality improvement initiatives using sensitive and sound outcome measures.
Incorporate relevant metrics of the adverse event or near miss incident to support need for improvement.
Competency 5: Apply effective communication strategies to promote quality improvement of interprofessional care.
Communicate analysis and proposed initiative in a professional, effective manner, writing clearly and logically, with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
Integrate relevant sources to support arguments, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.
Instructions
For this assessment, you will prepare a comprehensive analysis on an adverse event or near miss that you or a peer experienced during your professional nursing career. You will integrate research and data on the event and use this information as the basis for a quality improvement (QI) initiative proposal in your current organization.
The following points correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. The subbullets under each grading criterion further delineate tasks to fulfill the assessment requirements. Be sure that your adverse event or near-miss analysis addresses all of the content below. You may also want to read the scoring guide to better understa.
Impact of Nursing Informatics on Patient Outcomes Care Efficiencies.docx4934bk
The document discusses a proposed nursing informatics project aimed at improving patient outcomes and care efficiencies. It outlines the requirements for a 4-5 page project proposal, including describing the proposed project, identifying stakeholders, explaining how the project would improve outcomes/efficiencies with examples, identifying required technologies and why, and identifying the project team roles including the nurse informaticist role. The proposal must be in APA format with references.
Write an analysis, 4–5 pages in length, of the gap between curre.docxnealralix138661
Write an analysis, 4–5 pages in length, of the gap between current and desired performance, with respect to the provision of safe, high-quality patient care.
Note:
Each assessment in this course builds on the work you completed in the previous assessment. Therefore, you must complete the assessments in this course in the order in which they are presented.
As a nurse leader, you must be able to assess your organization's ability to deliver safe, high-quality patient care. In so doing, you may be required to perform a gap analysis of a quality or safety issue as the first step in improving outcomes. Failure to meet benchmarks for safe and effective patient care can have reimbursement, regulatory, and legal consequences.
This assessment provides an opportunity to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes required to successfully implement changes that improve patient outcomes by:
Evaluating the current culture of an organization.
Performing an outcomes gap analysis.
Determining what changes are needed to bridge the gap.
Examining current thinking on this topic contained in the literature.
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
Competency 1: Analyze quality and safety outcomes from an administrative and systems perspective.
Identify a systemic problem in an organization related to adverse quality and safety outcomes.
Propose specific practice changes within an organization that will improve quality and safety outcomes and bridge the gap between current and desired performance.
Prioritize proposed practice changes.
Competency 2: Determine how outcome measures promote quality and safety processes within an organization
Determine how proposed practice changes will foster a culture of quality and safety.
Competency 3: Determine how specific organizational functions, policies, processes, procedures, norms, and behaviors can be used to build reliable and high-performing organizations.
Determine how a particular organizational culture or hierarchy might affect or contribute to adverse quality and safety outcomes.
Justify necessary changes to particular organizational functions, processes, and behaviors that correct or mitigate adverse quality and safety outcomes.
Competency 5: Communicate effectively with diverse audiences, in an appropriate form and style, consistent with applicable organizational, professional, and scholarly standards.
Communicate analysis data and information clearly and accurately, using correct grammar and mechanics.
Integrate relevant and credible sources of evidence to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.
Context
Quality and safety are everyone's responsibility as a team of interprofessional care delivery partners. Together we develop policies that support quality and safe care delivery. As part of the interprofessional team.
Write a comprehensive analysis (5-7 pages) of an adverse event o.docxsmithhedwards48727
Write a comprehensive analysis (5-7 pages) of an adverse event or near miss from your nursing experience. Integrate research and data on the event to propose a quality improvement (QI) initiative to your current organization.
Health care organizations strive to create a culture of safety. Despite technological advances, quality care initiatives, oversight, ongoing education and training, legislation, and regulations, medical errors continue to be made. Some are small and easily remedied with the patient unaware of the infraction. Others can be catastrophic and irreversible, altering the lives of patients and their caregivers and unleashing massive reforms and costly litigation. Many errors are attributable to ineffective interprofessional communication.
This assessment’s goal is to address a specific event in a health care setting that impacts patient safety and related organizational vulnerabilities with a quality improvement initiative to prevent future incidents.
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 1: Plan quality improvement initiatives in response to adverse events and near-miss analyses.
Evaluate quality improvement technologies related to the event that are required to reduce risk and increase patient safety.
Analyze the missed steps or protocol deviations related to an adverse event or near miss.
Analyze the implications of the adverse event or near miss for all stakeholders.
Outline a quality improvement initiative to prevent a similar adverse event or near miss.
Competency 3: Evaluate quality improvement initiatives using sensitive and sound outcome measures.
Incorporate relevant metrics of the adverse event or near miss incident to support need for improvement.
Competency 5: Apply effective communication strategies to promote quality improvement of interprofessional care.
Communicate analysis and proposed initiative in a professional, effective manner, writing clearly and logically, with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
Integrate relevant sources to support arguments, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.
Instructions
For this assessment, you will prepare a comprehensive analysis on an adverse event or near miss that you or a peer experienced during your professional nursing career. You will integrate research and data on the event and use this information as the basis for a quality improvement (QI) initiative proposal in your current organization.
The following points correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. The subbullets under each grading criterion further delineate tasks to fulfill the assessment requirements. Be sure that your adverse event or near-miss analysis addresses all of the content below. You may also want to read the scoring guide to better understand .
Rubic_Print_FormatCourse CodeClass CodeNRS-451VNNRS-451VN-O502Health Organization Case Study200.0CriteriaPercentageUnsatisfactory (0.00%)Less than Satisfactory (75.00%)Satisfactory (79.00%)Good (89.00%)Excellent (100.00%)CommentsPoints EarnedContent80.0%Case study assesses the readiness of the health care organization or network in addressing the health care needs of citizens in the next decade30.0%Case study assesses the readiness of the health care organization or network in addressing the health care needs of citizens in the next decade is not provided.Case study assesses the readiness of the health care organization or network in addressing the health care needs of citizens in the next decade is offered; however, relevant information is missing as indicated in the assignment instructions. Case study assesses the readiness of the health care organization or network in addressing the health care needs of citizens in the next decade meets the basic criteria for the assignment as indicated in the assignment instructions.Case study assesses the readiness of the health care organization or network in addressing the health care needs of citizens in the next decade meets all criteria for the assignment, as indicated in the assignment instructions, and is offered in detail.Case study assesses the readiness of the health care organization or network in addressing the health care needs of citizens in the next decade is offered in detail, while demonstrating higher level thinking by incorporating prior learning or reflective thought.Case study includes a strategic plan that addresses issues pertaining to network growth10.0%Case study including a strategic plan that addresses issues pertaining to network growth is not provided.Case study including a strategic plan that addresses issues pertaining to network growth is provided; however, relevant information is missing as indicated in the assignment instructions.Case study including a strategic plan that addresses issues pertaining to network growth; meets the basic criteria for the assignment as indicated by the assignment instructions.Case study including a strategic plan that addresses issues pertaining to network growth; meets all criteria for the assignment, as indicated in the assignment instructions, and is provided in detail.Case study including a strategic plan that addresses issues pertaining to network growth; is offered in detail, while demonstrating higher level thinking by incorporating prior learning or reflective thought.Case study includes a strategic plan that addresses issues pertaining to nurse staffing10.0%Case study including a strategic plan that addresses issues pertaining to nurse staffing is not offered.Case study including a strategic plan that addresses issues pertaining to nurse staffing is provided; however, relevant information is missing as indicated in the assignment instructions.Case study including a strategic plan that addresses issues pertaining to nurse staffing mee.
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This document outlines an assignment to analyze a past adverse event or near miss from nursing experience. Students are asked to write a 5-7 page paper integrating research on the event to propose a quality improvement initiative. The analysis should evaluate missed steps, implications for stakeholders, appropriate safety technologies, relevant metrics, and propose an evidence-based initiative to prevent future incidents. Students must address all analysis points and communicate the analysis professionally using APA style citations and formatting.
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· Analyze a professional environment and relevant data, and develop a change strategy (3-5 pages) and discuss how to implement it successfully.
Introduction
Note: Each assessment in this course builds on the work you completed in the previous assessment. Therefore, it is recommended that you complete the assessments in this course in the order in which they are presented.
Knowing the best practice for our patients is very important in providing safe and effective care. Understanding best practices can help nurses identify areas of care that need to be improved. To identify areas of need, nurses must use evidence from various sources, such as the literature, clinical practice guidelines (CPG), professional organization practice alerts or position papers, and protocols. These sources of evidence can also be used to set goals for improvement and best practices with an eye toward improving the care experience or outcomes for patients.
The challenge facing many care environments and health care practitioners is how to plan for change and implement changes. For if we cannot effectively implement changes in practice or procedure, then our goals of improving care will likely amount to nothing. This assessment focuses on allowing you to practice locating, assessing, analyzing, and implementing change strategies in order to improve patient outcomes related to one or more clinical goals.
This assessment will take the form of a data table to identify areas for improvement and to set one or more outcome goals, as well as a narrative describing a change plan that would help you to achieve the goals you have set.
Professional Context
One area in health care that it is necessary to consider is the environment in which nurses work. It is important that this environment evolves and changes so that all patients are adequately supported. For this assessment, you will develop a change strategy to improve the health care environment. These changes can be rooted in a desire to improve clinical outcomes and data related to assessment accuracy, drug administration, or disease recovery rates. A key skill for master's-level nurses is to be able to evaluate clinical data and create a change plan to help drive improvements in the data to reach set goals.
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NUR 440 Peer Review Guidelines and Rubric
Overview: The purpose of peer review is to facilitate quality-nursing care through best practice discovered in evidence-based research. According to the
American Nurses Association, “peer review in nursing is the process by which practicing registered nurses systematically access, monitor, and make judgments
about the quality of nursing care provided by peers as measured against professional standards of practice. Peer review implies that the nursing care delivered
by a group of nurses or an individual nurse is evaluated by individuals of the same rank or standing according to established standards of practice.” Peer review
helps not only the author but the reviewer as well through the development of a critical eye which can then be applied to their own work.
Prompt
As the reviewer:
When you peer review another’s work, you will critically evaluate and suggest improvements. You will likely read the abstract once or twice before delving in with
comments and first impressions. Using the checklist below, identify strengths and areas for improvement, being sure to address each critical element in your
review.
Peer Review Checklist:
x Aims and objectives: Is the purpose clearly stated?
x Background: Does the author offer background on the subject?
x Methods: Are the methods clearly stated? What type of method did the author use?
x Results: Are the results valid and reliable?
x Conclusions: Are the conclusions clearly stated and are they informed by the results?
x Relevance to clinical practice: Does the author state the relevancy to clinical practice?
x Articulation of response (e.g., citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, organization)
You will be evaluated on your peer reviews, not the abstract submitted, using the rubric below.
As the author of the abstract, remember the following:
x Read the review carefully, avoiding any desire to defend your choices.
x If you are unclear what the reviewer means, ask them to clarify.
x If you have any questions, feel free to pose them to the reviewer.
x Take special note of repeated commentary (e.g., grammar, citation, etc.) as this may signify an area for improvement.
x Thank the reviewers for their feedback. If some commentary was especially helpful, this is useful information for the reviewer.
x Accept that negative feedback comes with the territory. Your job is not to make everyone happy but to make your work the best that it can be.
https://americannursetoday.com/nursing-peer-review-principles-and-practice/
Guidelines for Submission: You must submit your abstract to the provided discussion for review by Sunday of the previous module. When choosing two abstracts
for review, be sure to select peers who have not yet received feedback. Each of your reviews should be 2–3 paragraphs in length.
Rubric
Critical Elements Exemplary (100%) Proficient (85%) Needs Improvement (55%) Not Evident (0%) Value
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Note:
Each assessment in this course builds on the work you completed in the previous assessment. Therefore, you must complete the assessments in this course in the order in which they are presented.
As a nurse leader, you will be expected to communicate effectively with leaders and stakeholders at all levels in an organization in a variety of ways, depending on your purpose and your audience. Being able to deliver effective presentations is one important skill you will likely be called upon to use often.
This assessment provides an opportunity to hone your presentation skills and enlist the support of stakeholder groups who will be key to achieving desired changes in the organization and developing or enhancing a culture of quality and safety.
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
Competency 1: Analyze quality and safety outcomes from an administrative and systems perspective.
Summarize the key aspects of a plan to develop or enhance a culture of safety.
Competency 2: Determine how outcome measures promote quality and safety processes within an organization.
Identify current outcome measures related to quality and safety.
Competency 3: Determine how specific organizational functions, policies, processes, procedures, norms, and behaviors can be used to build reliability and high-performing organizations.
Identify existing organizational functions, processes, and behaviors affecting quality and safety.
Competency 4: Synthesize the various aspects of the nurse leader's role in developing, promoting, and sustaining a culture of quality and safety.
Explain the steps needed to achieve improved outcomes.
Create a future vision of an organization's potential to develop and sustain a culture of quality and safety and the nurse leader's role developing that potential.
Competency 5: Communicate effectively with diverse audiences, in an appropriate form and style, consistent with applicable organizational, professional, and scholarly standards.
Argue persuasively to obtain agreement with, and support from, administrative leaders and stakeholders in an organization for a plan to develop or enhance a culture of safety.
Support main points, arguments, and conclusions with relevant and credible evidence, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.
Questions to Consider
As you prepare to complete this assessment, you may want to think about other related issues to deepen your understanding or broaden your viewpoint. You are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of your.
The document outlines an assignment to analyze an adverse event or near miss from nursing experience, research the event, and propose a quality improvement initiative. Students are instructed to:
1) Analyze the causes and preventability of the event by identifying missed steps or protocols.
2) Evaluate the short and long-term implications for stakeholders and responsibilities of those involved.
3) Assess quality improvement technologies in place and their appropriate use in preventing similar events.
4) Incorporate relevant metrics and data on the event from within and outside the organization to identify needs for improvement.
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What steps do you think schools can or should take to promote our democracy in today’s very diverse country?
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In this assignment, you will
Document and reflect on your university education and on learning experiences outside of the university;
Articulate how your upper-level coursework is an integrated and individualized curriculum built around your interests; and
Highlight the experiences, skills, and projects that show what you can do.
A successful report submission will be the product of many hours of work over several weeks.
A report earning maximum available points will be a carefully curated and edited explanation of your work that provides tangible evidence of—and insights into—your competencies and capabilities over time. In each section of this report, you are (1) telling a story about your own abilities, and (2) providing specific examples and evidence that illustrate and support your claims.
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Required Report Sections
Here the sections are listed as they must appear in your final graded submission. You’ll arrange the sections in this order when
submitting
the final report BUT you won’t follow this order when
writing
drafts of each section.
Note that each section description contains a Pro Tip that tells you how to proceed with the work – what to attempt first, second, and third, etc.
❖ I. Statement of Purpose ❖
Step 1.
Read these four very different
examples of successful Statement of Purpose sections
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Step 2.
Consider the differences in tone, style, level of detail etc. Your own statement of purpose may resemble one of these. Indeed, writing a first draft based on an example or combination of examples is a good idea. BUT don’t let these examples limit your thinking or personal expression. You may want to begin with a quote from a famous person, use a quote from your mom, or skip the quote. You may want to discuss your personal motivations or get right down to the facts. You may want to list your classes or discuss how your work-life led you to this path.
Step 3.
Write a rough draft – let’s call that Statement of Purpose 1.0. Write Statement of Purpose 1.0 as quickly as you can and then put it away until after you have completed most of the report. Forget about Statement of Purpose 1.0 until most of your report is at least in draft form.
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Once you have a draft of all sections of your report, you are in a good position to revise Statement of Purpose 1. You are ready for Step 4. Take Statement of Purpose 1.0 out its dusty vault and hold it up to the sun. Ah. Now read your report draft and compare it to the claims you made in Statement of Purpose 1.0. Ask yourself these questions:
Does Statement of Purpose 1.0. accurately introduce my report?
Are there important ideas or representative experiences in the report that should be highlighted in the Statement of Purpose but aren’t? Remember this isn’t a treasure hunt where its your reader’s job to figure out what matters. It’s your job to show the reader what matters.
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Scenario
Consider a current environment. This could be your current care setting, the care setting presented in the scenario Vila Health: Using Concept Maps for Diagnosis, or a care setting in which you are interested in working. For the setting that you choose you will need to have a data set that depicts sub-optimal outcomes related to a clinical issue. This data could be from existing sources in the course, a relevant data set that already exists (a data set from the case study you used as a basis for your previous Concept Map assessment or from your current place of practice), or an appropriate data set that you have created yourself. (Note: if you choose to create your own data set, check with your instructor first .
The document discusses conducting a root cause analysis of falls among geropsychiatric patients in an inpatient mental health unit. The analysis found that falls primarily occurred near patient beds and when nursing staff were understaffed. Many falls also occurred when patients were ambulating under the influence of medications like zolpidem. A safety improvement plan is proposed that focuses on improving staff monitoring through techniques like intentional rounding and installing bed exit alarms to alert staff. Environmental modifications like non-slip flooring are also recommended. The plan aims to reduce falls by leveraging existing organizational resources and staff.
This document provides instructions for an assessment requiring students to create an online resource toolkit containing at least 12 annotated resources related to a safety improvement initiative pertaining to medication administration. The toolkit should be organized into categories and each resource should include an APA citation, description, and explanation of how it can help implement the initiative. Creating such a toolkit can help reinforce learning and sustainability of quality improvements. Examples of annotated resources and a sample toolkit are provided.
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NUR 440 Peer Review Guidelines and Rubric
Overview: The purpose of peer review is to facilitate quality-nursing care through best practice discovered in evidence-based research. According to the
American Nurses Association, “peer review in nursing is the process by which practicing registered nurses systematically access, monitor, and make judgments
about the quality of nursing care provided by peers as measured against professional standards of practice. Peer review implies that the nursing care delivered
by a group of nurses or an individual nurse is evaluated by individuals of the same rank or standing according to established standards of practice.” Peer review
helps not only the author but the reviewer as well through the development of a critical eye which can then be applied to their own work.
Prompt
As the reviewer:
When you peer review another’s work, you will critically evaluate and suggest improvements. You will likely read the abstract once or twice before delving in with
comments and first impressions. Using the checklist below, identify strengths and areas for improvement, being sure to address each critical element in your
review.
Peer Review Checklist:
x Aims and objectives: Is the purpose clearly stated?
x Background: Does the author offer background on the subject?
x Methods: Are the methods clearly stated? What type of method did the author use?
x Results: Are the results valid and reliable?
x Conclusions: Are the conclusions clearly stated and are they informed by the results?
x Relevance to clinical practice: Does the author state the relevancy to clinical practice?
x Articulation of response (e.g., citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, organization)
You will be evaluated on your peer reviews, not the abstract submitted, using the rubric below.
As the author of the abstract, remember the following:
x Read the review carefully, avoiding any desire to defend your choices.
x If you are unclear what the reviewer means, ask them to clarify.
x If you have any questions, feel free to pose them to the reviewer.
x Take special note of repeated commentary (e.g., grammar, citation, etc.) as this may signify an area for improvement.
x Thank the reviewers for their feedback. If some commentary was especially helpful, this is useful information for the reviewer.
x Accept that negative feedback comes with the territory. Your job is not to make everyone happy but to make your work the best that it can be.
https://americannursetoday.com/nursing-peer-review-principles-and-practice/
Guidelines for Submission: You must submit your abstract to the provided discussion for review by Sunday of the previous module. When choosing two abstracts
for review, be sure to select peers who have not yet received feedback. Each of your reviews should be 2–3 paragraphs in length.
Rubric
Critical Elements Exemplary (100%) Proficient (85%) Needs Improvement (55%) Not Evident (0%) Value
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Develop a presentation, augmented by 12–15 slides, for administr.docxhcheryl1
Develop a presentation, augmented by 12–15 slides, for administrative leaders and stakeholders that outlines your plan to develop or enhance a culture of quality and safety within your organization or practice setting.
Note:
Each assessment in this course builds on the work you completed in the previous assessment. Therefore, you must complete the assessments in this course in the order in which they are presented.
As a nurse leader, you will be expected to communicate effectively with leaders and stakeholders at all levels in an organization in a variety of ways, depending on your purpose and your audience. Being able to deliver effective presentations is one important skill you will likely be called upon to use often.
This assessment provides an opportunity to hone your presentation skills and enlist the support of stakeholder groups who will be key to achieving desired changes in the organization and developing or enhancing a culture of quality and safety.
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
Competency 1: Analyze quality and safety outcomes from an administrative and systems perspective.
Summarize the key aspects of a plan to develop or enhance a culture of safety.
Competency 2: Determine how outcome measures promote quality and safety processes within an organization.
Identify current outcome measures related to quality and safety.
Competency 3: Determine how specific organizational functions, policies, processes, procedures, norms, and behaviors can be used to build reliability and high-performing organizations.
Identify existing organizational functions, processes, and behaviors affecting quality and safety.
Competency 4: Synthesize the various aspects of the nurse leader's role in developing, promoting, and sustaining a culture of quality and safety.
Explain the steps needed to achieve improved outcomes.
Create a future vision of an organization's potential to develop and sustain a culture of quality and safety and the nurse leader's role developing that potential.
Competency 5: Communicate effectively with diverse audiences, in an appropriate form and style, consistent with applicable organizational, professional, and scholarly standards.
Argue persuasively to obtain agreement with, and support from, administrative leaders and stakeholders in an organization for a plan to develop or enhance a culture of safety.
Support main points, arguments, and conclusions with relevant and credible evidence, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.
Questions to Consider
As you prepare to complete this assessment, you may want to think about other related issues to deepen your understanding or broaden your viewpoint. You are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of your.
The document outlines an assignment to analyze an adverse event or near miss from nursing experience, research the event, and propose a quality improvement initiative. Students are instructed to:
1) Analyze the causes and preventability of the event by identifying missed steps or protocols.
2) Evaluate the short and long-term implications for stakeholders and responsibilities of those involved.
3) Assess quality improvement technologies in place and their appropriate use in preventing similar events.
4) Incorporate relevant metrics and data on the event from within and outside the organization to identify needs for improvement.
The document discusses assessing an organization's culture and readiness for implementing an evidence-based practice project to prevent CLABSI in a NICU. An organizational assessment tool was used to evaluate readiness. It found strengths like leadership support but also weaknesses such as lack of time and EBP knowledge. The author recommends strategies to improve readiness like recognizing top performers and aligning with available resources. Key stakeholders for the project include nurses, doctors, patients, and insurance companies. Information technologies could help implementation and care delivery if integrated properly.
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“…if one of the primary purposes of education is to teach young people the skills, knowledge, and critical awareness to become productive members of a diverse and democratic society, a broadly conceptualize multicultural education can have a decisive influence.” Textbook page 338.
What steps do you think schools can or should take to promote our democracy in today’s very diverse country?
Food festivals and celebrating a cultural holiday will not be accepted as an answer. Those are examples of tokenism to make the dominant culture feel like they are doing something. These two activities are fun and interesting, but not how we will strengthen our democracy.
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Report Overview
In this assignment, you will
Document and reflect on your university education and on learning experiences outside of the university;
Articulate how your upper-level coursework is an integrated and individualized curriculum built around your interests; and
Highlight the experiences, skills, and projects that show what you can do.
A successful report submission will be the product of many hours of work over several weeks.
A report earning maximum available points will be a carefully curated and edited explanation of your work that provides tangible evidence of—and insights into—your competencies and capabilities over time. In each section of this report, you are (1) telling a story about your own abilities, and (2) providing specific examples and evidence that illustrate and support your claims.
✍
Required Report Sections
Here the sections are listed as they must appear in your final graded submission. You’ll arrange the sections in this order when
submitting
the final report BUT you won’t follow this order when
writing
drafts of each section.
Note that each section description contains a Pro Tip that tells you how to proceed with the work – what to attempt first, second, and third, etc.
❖ I. Statement of Purpose ❖
Step 1.
Read these four very different
examples of successful Statement of Purpose sections
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Step 2.
Consider the differences in tone, style, level of detail etc. Your own statement of purpose may resemble one of these. Indeed, writing a first draft based on an example or combination of examples is a good idea. BUT don’t let these examples limit your thinking or personal expression. You may want to begin with a quote from a famous person, use a quote from your mom, or skip the quote. You may want to discuss your personal motivations or get right down to the facts. You may want to list your classes or discuss how your work-life led you to this path.
Step 3.
Write a rough draft – let’s call that Statement of Purpose 1.0. Write Statement of Purpose 1.0 as quickly as you can and then put it away until after you have completed most of the report. Forget about Statement of Purpose 1.0 until most of your report is at least in draft form.
Step 4.
Once you have a draft of all sections of your report, you are in a good position to revise Statement of Purpose 1. You are ready for Step 4. Take Statement of Purpose 1.0 out its dusty vault and hold it up to the sun. Ah. Now read your report draft and compare it to the claims you made in Statement of Purpose 1.0. Ask yourself these questions:
Does Statement of Purpose 1.0. accurately introduce my report?
Are there important ideas or representative experiences in the report that should be highlighted in the Statement of Purpose but aren’t? Remember this isn’t a treasure hunt where its your reader’s job to figure out what matters. It’s your job to show the reader what matters.
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Learning Outcomes:1.
Understand the basic concepts and terminology used in Strategic Management. (Lo 1.2)2.
Understand the Corporation Social Responsibility
(Lo 1.4).3.
Explain how executive leadership is an important part of strategic management (Lo 3.4)
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Question 1
: How does strategic management typically evolve in a corporation? (
1Mark)
✓
Question 2
: Discuss the influence of globalization, social responsibility and environmental sustainability on strategic management of a corporation.(
2 Marks
)
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Question 3:
In what ways can a corporation’s structure and culture be internal strengths or weaknesses? Justify your answer by examples from real market. (
1Mark)
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Question 4:
When does a corporation need a board of directors? Justify your answer by an example from Saudi market.
(1 Mark)
Notes:
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Your answers
(for the
4
questions)
MUST include at least
three scholarly peer-reviewed references
,
using a proper referencing style (APA).
Keep in mind that these scholarly references
can be found
in the
Saudi Digital Library (SDL).
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Make sure to support your statements with logic and argument, citing all sources referenced.
Your answers should not include m
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● What are some of the reasons that a MNE would choose international expansion through an acquisition? An IJV? An alliance?
● What are the variables that would influence the decision?
● Which choice do you believe is best for the likely benefit of the firm? (Cite and reference).
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▶︎ Prompt 1:
Think about whether you identify with either Blue or Red or "Left vs. Right" characteristics of conservative or liberal, left or right America. Do you see yourself, or the people in the place you grew up, on either side of the divide, or perhaps in a different political category? Share some ways in which you identify with some of the descriptions, or ways in which they seem foreign to you.
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⁞ Instructions
Choose only
ONE
of the following options below and, in your post, write a paraphrase that avoids plagiarism of the paragraph you have chosen. Your paraphrase can be as long as the excerpt you have chosen, but should not duplicate any phrasing from the excerpt. If you must, you can quote up to three words in a phrase.
Choose to paraphrase ONE of the excerpts below:
Option 1
Morrison began writing Sula in 1969, a time of great activism among African Americans and others who were working toward equal civil rights and opportunities. The book addresses issues of racism, bigotry, and suppression of African Americans; it depicts the despair people feel when they can't get decent jobs, and the determination of some to survive. Eva, for example, cuts off her leg in order to get money to raise her family. Morrison shows how, faced with racist situations, some people had to grovel to whites simply to get by, as Helene does on a train heading through the South. Others, however, fought back, as Sula does when she threatens some white boys who are harassing her and Nel.
or
Option 2
In 1993, Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, and thus became the first African American and only the eighth woman ever to win the award. According to Maureen O'Brien in Publishers Weekly, Morrison said, "What is most wonderful for me personally is to know that the Prize has at last been awarded to an African American. I thank God that my mother is alive to see this day." In 1996, she received the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
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⁞ Instructions
Choose only
ONE
of the following options below and, in your post, write a paraphrase that avoids plagiarism of the paragraph you have chosen. Your paraphrase can be as long as the excerpt you have chosen, but should not duplicate any phrasing from the excerpt. If you must, you can quote up to three words in a phrase.
When you are done posting your paraphrase, reply to at least one classmate’s paraphrase, commenting on what s/he has done well and what s/he can improve with the wording. Your response should be written in no fewer than 75 words.
Choose to paraphrase ONE of the excerpts below:
Option 1
Morrison began writing Sula in 1969, a time of great activism among African Americans and others who were working toward equal civil rights and opportunities. The book addresses issues of racism, bigotry, and suppression of African Americans; it depicts the despair people feel when they can't get decent jobs, and the determination of some to survive. Eva, for example, cuts off her leg in order to get money to raise her family. Morrison shows how, faced with racist situations, some people had to grovel to whites simply to get by, as Helene does on a train heading through the South. Others, however, fought back, as Sula does when she threatens some white boys who are harassing her and Nel.
or
Option 2
In 1993, Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, and thus became the first African American and only the eighth woman ever to win the award. According to Maureen O'Brien in Publishers Weekly, Morrison said, "What is most wonderful for me personally is to know that the Prize has at last been awarded to an African American. I thank God that my mother is alive to see this day." In 1996, she received the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
Your discussion post will be graded according to the following criteria:
- Clear paraphrase the selected text in your own words with minimal use of quotations
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⁞ InstructionsAfter reading The Metamorphosis by Frank .docxanhlodge
⁞ Instructions
After reading
The Metamorphosis
by Frank Kafka , choose
one
of the following assertions and write a 200-word response supporting why you agree or disagree with it.
Gregor’s transformation highlights his isolation and alienation before his metamorphosis.
Or
Despite having become an insect, Gregor is more humane and sensitive than his family.
Or
If Gregor had been a stronger person, he would have been able to avoid all of the suffering and alienation he endures.
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⁞ InstructionsAfter reading all of Chapter 5, please se.docxanhlodge
⁞ Instructions:
After reading all of
Chapter 5
, please select
ONE
of the following
primary source readings
:
“Utilitarianism” by John Stuart Mill
(starting on page 111)
-or-
“A Theory of Justice” by John Rawls
(starting on page 115)
-or-
“The Entitlement Theory of Justice” by Robert Nozick
(starting on page 122)
Write a short, objective summary of
250-500 words
which summarizes the main ideas being put forward by the author in this selection. Your summary should include no direct quotations from any author. Instead, summarize in your own words, and include a citation to the original. Format your Reading Summary assignment according to either MLA or APA formatting standards, and attach as either a .doc, .docx, or .rtf filetype. Other filetypes, or assignments that are merely copy/pasted into the box will be returned ungraded.
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⁞ InstructionsAfter reading all of Chapter 2, please select.docxanhlodge
⁞ Instructions:
After reading all of
Chapter 2
, please select
ONE
of the following
primary source readings
:
“Anthropology and the Abnormal” by Ruth Benedict
(starting on page 33)
-or-
“Trying Out One’s New Sword” by Mary Midgley
(starting on page 35)
Write a short, objective summary of
250
which summarizes the main ideas being put forward by the author in this selection.
Write a short summary that identifies the thesis and outlines the main argument.
Reading summaries are not about your opinion or perspective – they are expository essays that explain the content of the reading.
All reading summaries must include substantive content based on the students reading of the material.
Reading Material: Doing Ethics
ORIGINIAL WORK. NO PLAGIARISM
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⁞ Instructions After reading all of Chapter 9, please .docxanhlodge
⁞ Instructions:
After reading all of
Chapter 9
, please select the following
primary source reading
:
“A Defense of Abortion” by Judith Jarvis Thomson
(starting on page 237)
Write a short, objective summary of
250-500 words
which summarizes the main ideas being put forward by the author in this selection. Your summary should include no direct quotations from any author. Instead, summarize in your own words, and include a citation to the original. Format your Reading Summary assignment according to either MLA or APA formatting standards, and attach as either a .doc, .docx, or .rtf filetype. Other filetypes, or assignments that are merely copy/pasted into the box will be returned ungraded.
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…Multiple intelligences describe an individual’s strengths or capac.docxanhlodge
“…Multiple intelligences describe an individual’s strengths or capacities; learning styles describe an individual’s traits that relate to where and how one best learns” (textbook quote, [H2] Learning Styles].
This week you’ve read about the importance of getting to know your students in order to create relevant and engaging lesson plans that cater to multiple intelligences and are multimodal.
Assignment Instructions:
A. Using
SurveyMonkey
, create a survey that has:
At least five questions based on Gardner’s theory
Five questions on individual learning style inventory
A specific targeted student population grade level (elementary/ middle/ high school/adults)
Include the survey link for your peers
B. Post a minimum 150 word introduction to your survey, using at least one research-based article (cited in APA format) explaining how it will:
Evaluate students’ readiness
Assist in the creation of differentiated lesson plans.
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••• JONATHAN LETHEM CRITICS OFTEN USE the word prolifi.docxanhlodge
- Jonathan Lethem is known for publishing many novels, stories, essays and other works across different genres. He is described as a "protean" or shape-shifting writer.
- Lethem believes creativity comes from influence and interaction with other works, not isolated originality. He celebrates the "ecstasy of influence" where culture is built upon what came before through borrowing and remixing.
- Many artists, including musicians, visual artists and writers, engage in practices that borrow and reuse elements from other works but these practices are seen as essential to creativity rather than plagiarism. Appropriation and remixing are at the core of cultural production.
•••••iA National Profile ofthe Real Estate Industry and.docxanhlodge
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A National Profile of
the Real Estate Industry and
the Appraisal Profession
by J. Reid Cummings and Donald R. Epley, PhD, MAI, SRA
FEATURES
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J- he
he real estate industry has been devastated on many fronts' in the years
following the Great Recession, whieh began in 2007^ due to the bursting of the
housing bubble and the subsequent finaneial crisis relating to the mortgage
market meltdown.' The implosion of the mortgage markets initially began when
two Bear Stearns mortgage-backed securities hedge funds, holding nearly $10
billion in assets, disintegrated into nothing.* Panie quickly spread to financial
institutions that could not hide the extent of their toxic, subprime exposures, and
a massive, worldwide credit squeeze ensued; outright fear soon replaced panic.
Subsequent eredit tightening and substantial illiquidity in the financial markets
rapidly and severely affected the housing and construction markets.' Throughout
the United States, properties of all kinds saw dramatic value declines.
In thousands of cases, real estate foreclosures disrupted people's lives,
forced businesses to close, eaused financial institutions to falter, capsized wbole
market segments, devastated entire industries, and squeezed municipal and state
government budgets dependent upon use and property tax revenues.* While the
effeets of property value declines and the waves of foreclosures in markets across
the country captured most of the headlines, one significant impact of the upheaval
in US real estate markets has gone largely unreported: its impact on employment
in the real estate industry, and specifically, the real estate appraisal profession.
This article presents a
current employment
profile of the US real
estate industry, with
special attention given
to appraisal profes-
sionals. It serves as an
informative picture of
the appraisal profession
for use as a benchmark
for future assessment
of growth. As a
component of the real
estate industry, the
appraisal profession
ranks as the smallest
in employment, is
highly correlated to
movements in empioy-
ment of brokers and
agents, and relies on
commerciai banking,
credit, and real estate
lessors and managers
to deliver its products.
1. James R. DeLisle, "At the Crossroads of Expansion and Recession," TheAppraisalJournal 75, no. 4 (Fall 2007):
314-322; James R. DeLisle, "The Perfect Storm Rippiing Over to Reai Estate," The Appraisal Journal 76, no,
3 (Summer 2008): 200-210.
2. Randaii W. Eberts, "When Wiii US Empioyment Recover from tiie Great Recession?" International Labor Brief
9, no. 2 (2011): 4-12 (W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research): Chad R. Wilkerson, "Recession and
Recovery Across the Nation: Lessons from History," Economic Review 94, no. 2 (2009): 5-24.
3. Kataiina M. Bianco, The Subprime Lending Crisis: Causes and Effects of the Mortgage Meltdown (New York:
CCH, inc., 2008): Lawrence H. White, "Fédérai Reserve Policy and the Housing Bubbie," in Lessons Fro.
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“Let us consider […] a pair of cases which I shall call Rescue I and Rescue II. In the first Rescue story we are hurrying in our jeep to save some people – let there be five of them – who are imminently threatened by the ocean tide. We have not a moment to spare, so when we hear of a single person who also needs rescuing from some other disaster we say regretfully that we cannot rescue him, but must leave him to die. To most of us, this seems clear […]. This is Rescue I and with it I contrast Rescue II. In this second story we are again hurrying to the place where the tide is coming in in order to rescue the party of people, but this time it is relevant that the road is narrow and rocky. In this version, the lone individual is trapped (do not ask me how) on the path. If we are to rescue the five we would have to drive over him. But can we do so? If we stop he will be all right eventually: he is in no danger unless from us. But of course, all five of the others will be drowned. As in the first story, our choice is between a course of action that will leave one man dead and five alive at the end of the day and a course of action which will have the opposite result. (Philippa Foot, “Killing and Letting Die,” from Abortion and Legal Perspectives, eds. Garfield and Hennessey, 2004, University of Massachusetts Press)
1. What would Mill tell the rescuer to do, in Rescue I and Rescue II, according to his theory of utilitarianism? Be clear in explaining Mill’s recommendation, and how he would justify it. In doing so, you must include a discussion of the following:
o The Principle of Utility and how it would specifically apply in this situation—who gets “counted” and how?
2. What would Kant tell the rescuer to do, in Rescue I and Rescue II, according to his deontological theory? Be clear in explaining Kant’s recommendation and how he would justify it. In doing so, you must include a discussion of the following:
o The first version of the Categorical Imperative and how it would specifically apply in these two situations (hint, you have to say what the maxim would be and what duty would be generated according to it).
o The second version of the Categorical Imperative and how it would specifically apply in this situation.
3. Explain one criticism of both Mill and Kant. Afterward, argue for which ethical approach, on your view is superior. Be specific and provide reasons for your claim.
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• Enhanced eText—Keeps students engaged in learning on th.docxanhlodge
• Enhanced eText—Keeps students engaged in learning on their own time,
while helping them achieve greater conceptual understanding of course
material. The worked examples bring learning to life, and algorithmic practice
allows students to apply the very concepts they are reading about. Combining
resources that illuminate content with accessible self-assessment, MyLab
with Enhanced eText provides students with a complete digital learning
experience—all in one place.
• MediaShare for Business—Consisting of a curated collection of business
videos tagged to learning outcomes and customizable, auto-scored
assignments, MediaShare for Business helps students understand why they
are learning key concepts and how they will apply those in their careers.
Instructors can also assign favorite YouTube clips or original content and
employ MediaShare’s powerful repository of tools to maximize student
accountability and interactive learning, and provide contextualized feedback
for students and teams who upload presentations, media, or business plans.
• Writing Space—Better writers make great
learners who perform better in their courses.
Designed to help you develop and assess concept
mastery and critical thinking, the Writing Space
offers a single place to create, track, and grade
writing assignments, provide resources, and
exchange meaningful, personalized feedback with
students, quickly and easily. Thanks to auto-graded, assisted-graded, and create-your-own assignments, you
decide your level of involvement in evaluating students’ work. The auto-graded option allows you to assign
writing in large classes without having to grade essays by hand. And because of integration with Turnitin®,
Writing Space can check students’ work for improper citation or plagiarism.
• Branching, Decision-Making Simulations—Put your students in the
role of manager as they make a series of decisions based on a realistic
business challenge. The simulations change and branch based on their
decisions, creating various scenario paths. At the end of each simulation,
students receive a grade and a detailed report of the choices they made
with the associated consequences included.
Engage, Assess, Apply
• Learning Catalytics™—Is an interactive, student response tool that
uses students’ smartphones, tablets, or laptops to engage them in
more sophisticated tasks and thinking. Now included with MyLab
with eText, Learning Catalytics enables you to generate classroom
discussion, guide your lecture, and promote peer-to-peer learning
with real-time analytics.
• LMS Integration—You can now link from Blackboard Learn, Brightspace
by D2L, Canvas, or Moodle to MyManagementLab. Access assignments,
rosters, and resources, and synchronize grades with your LMS gradebook.
For students, single sign-on provides access to all the personalized
learning resources that make studying more efficient and effective.
• Reporting Dashboard—View, analyze, and re.
• Here’s the approach you can take for this paperTitle.docxanhlodge
This document outlines the structure for a 15-20 page paper on risk management for an organization. It should include an introduction providing background on the selected organization, descriptions of 3 risks with their impacts and recommendations for managing each risk, a conclusion, and references. The paper needs a title page and should follow APA style formatting.
•Your team will select a big data analytics project that is intr.docxanhlodge
•Your team will select a big data analytics project that is introduced to an organization of your choice … please address the following items:
•Provide a background of the company chosen.
•Determine the problems or opportunities that that this project will solve. What is the value of the project?
•Describe the impact of the problem. In other words, is the organization suffering financial losses? Are there opportunities that are not exploited?
•Provide a clear description regarding the metrics your team will use to measure performance. Please include a discussion pertaining to the key performance indicators (KPIs).
•Recommend a big data tool that will help you solve your problem or exploit the opportunity, such as Hadoop, Cloudera, MongoDB, or Hive.
•Evaluate the data requirements. Here are questions to consider: What type of data is needed? Where can you find the data? How can the data be collected? How can you verify the integrity of the data?
•Discuss the gaps that you will need to bridge. Will you need help from vendors to do this work? Is it necessary to secure the services of other subject matter experts (SMEs)?
•What type of project management approach will you use this initiative? Agile? Waterfall? Hybrid? Please provide a justification for the selected approach.
•Provide a summary and conclusion.
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The simplified electron and muon model, Oscillating Spacetime: The Foundation...RitikBhardwaj56
Discover the Simplified Electron and Muon Model: A New Wave-Based Approach to Understanding Particles delves into a groundbreaking theory that presents electrons and muons as rotating soliton waves within oscillating spacetime. Geared towards students, researchers, and science buffs, this book breaks down complex ideas into simple explanations. It covers topics such as electron waves, temporal dynamics, and the implications of this model on particle physics. With clear illustrations and easy-to-follow explanations, readers will gain a new outlook on the universe's fundamental nature.
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Safety Score Improvement Plan Scoring Guide Grading RubricCr.docx
1. Safety Score Improvement Plan Scoring Guide Grading Rubric
Criteria Non-performance Basic Proficient Distinguished
Identify a patient safety issue. Does not identify a patient safety
issue.
Identifies patient safety concerns in general,
but does not identify a specific issue.
Identifies a patient safety issue. Identifies a patient safety issue
and explains why the
issue is a primary concern for nursing.
Describe the influence of nursing
leadership in driving needed changes.
Does not describe the influence of
nursing leadership in driving the
needed changes.
Describes the influence of nursing leadership in
general terms but does not describe how
nursing leadership can drive change.
Describes the influence of
nursing leadership in driving the
needed changes.
Describes the influence of nursing leadership as a
driving force for changes that affect patient safety
and quality outcomes, and provides a specific
example of driving a needed change.
2. Apply systems thinking to explain how
current policies and procedures may
affect a safety issue.
Does not apply systems thinking to
explain how current policies and
procedures may affect a safety
issue.
Identifies leadership and structure responsible
for current policies and procedures, but does
not apply systems thinking to explain the
connection to patient safety.
Applies systems thinking to
explain how current policies and
procedures may affect a safety
issue.
Applies systems thinking to explain how current
policies and procedures may affect a safety issue,
and includes a discussion of how staff could monitor
systems and implement safeguards.
Explain a strategy to collect
information about the safety concern.
Does not explain a strategy to
collect information about the safety
concern.
Identifies several strategies to collect
information about the safety concern, but does
not explain one strategy.
3. Explains a strategy to collect
information about the safety
concern.
Explains a strategy to collect information about the
safety concern and how it could be implemented,
and identifies possible obstacles to obtaining
information.
Recommend an evidence-based strategy
to improve the safety issue.
Does not recommend an evidence-
based strategy to improve the
safety issue.
Describes strategies for improving a safety
issue, but does not indicate if it is evidence
based.
Recommends an evidence-based
strategy to improve the safety
issue.
Recommends an evidence-based strategy to improve
the safety issue, and identifies potential limitations
of the strategy.
Explain a plan to implement a
recommendation and monitor
outcomes.
Does not explain a plan to
implement a recommendation and
4. monitor outcomes.
Makes a recommendation, but does not explain
how it will be implemented.
Explains a plan to implement a
recommendation and monitor
outcomes.
Explains a plan to implement a recommendation and
monitor outcomes, and specifies quality indicators
and accountable staff.
Write content clearly and logically,
with correct use of grammar,
punctuation, and mechanics.
Does not write content clearly and
logically, and there are errors in
grammar, punctuation, and
mechanics.
Writes with errors in clarity, logic, grammar,
punctuation, or mechanics.
Writes content clearly and
logically, with correct use of
grammar, punctuation, and
mechanics.
Writes clearly and logically, with correct use
spelling, grammar, punctuation, and mechanics, and
uses relevant evidence to support a central idea.
Correctly format citations and
references using current APA style.
5. Does not correctly format citations
and references using current APA
style.
Uses current APA to format citations and
references but with numerous errors.
Correctly formats citations and
references using current APA
style with a few errors.
Correctly formats citations and references with no
errors.
Print
Safety Score Improvement Plan Scoring Guide
Overview
Write a 3–4-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.
Context
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.
6. Questions to Consider
To deepen your understanding, you are encouraged to consider
the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a
work associate, an interested friend, or a member of the health
care community.
Consider a performance measurement criteria or best practice
guideline used in your work setting (or one that you are familiar
with).
•How was this criterion or guideline implemented? ◦Has it been
successful?
◦Is it used consistently?
•What evidence-based practices were used in developing the
criteria or guideline?
•How was nursing involved in the criteria or guideline
development?
Resources
Suggested Resources
The following optional resources are provided to support you in
completing the assessment or to provide a helpful context. For
additional resources, refer to the Research Resources and
Supplemental Resources in the left navigation menu of your
courseroom.
Click the link provided below to view the following multimedia
piece:
•Systems Theory and the Fifth Discipline | Transcript.
Assessment Instructions
Preparation
Refer to the library and the Internet for supplemental resources
to help you complete this assessment, a Safety Score
Improvement Plan.
Consider the hospital-acquired conditions that are not
7. 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 3–4-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
8. 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 2–3 pages.
•Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point, double-
spaced.
9. •Number of resources: Use a minimum of three peer-reviewed
resources.
Executive Summary Activity
Value: 50 Points
The ability to summarize, paraphrase, and “get to the point” is
an extremely important skill that you need to develop in your
time at School. This assignment gives you a chance to continue
developing your ability to 1) identify key points in a document
and 2) communicate those points to readers in a clear and
effective way.
Now that you have completed your written proposal, you are
being asked to type a 1-page Executive Summary of your team’s
proposal. (You will single-space within the paragraphs and
double-space between them.) This Executive Summary will be
done on an individual basis. You must NOT work on this with
your teammates.
Think of your audience as being the Dallas Regional Chamber
members. They should be able to read your summary and
understand the core of the following:
1) The challenge/need in the community you want to do
something about
2) Your proposed plan to address the challenge/need
3) How/why your plan is going to make a concrete difference in
the community
10. Please note that there is a discussion of writing summaries on p.
279 of your book and an example of one kind of a summary on
p. 332. Please keep in mind though that these pages just offer
suggestions but you need to create your own summary and make
sure that you address “the core” as mentioned above.
Prepare your summary in Word, using 1” margins. At the 1” top
margin, you can center the following:
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
by Your Name
CRITERIA
Below Expectations
0-3
Meets Expectations
4-6
Above Expectations
6-8
Summary Skills
Summary is very short; key information is missing and minor
details are given too much attention.
Summary is good: key information is restated well and minor
details and author opinions are avoided.
Summary is excellent: all major points are restated clearly and
concisely and minor details and opinions are avoided.
Purpose
Summary does not restate purpose, key arguments, facts, and
figures.
Summary restates main purpose, key points, facts, and figures
well.
Summary restates main purpose, key points, facts, and figures
11. excellently.
Format
Format lacks title and information about the source.
Format includes title and information about the source.
Format includes title and information about the source and both
are stated clearly and concisely.
Organization
Summary’s organization follows no logical or coherent order.
Summary is organized well. Information follows a logical order.
Summary is organized well and invites readers to read more.
Information follows a logical order and creates flow and clarity.
Audience Awareness
Information is not tailored toward an executive-level audience.
Summary teases reader.
Summary is written appropriately for an executive audience.
Information is tailored nicely toward executive audience.
Executives can make decisions and take appropriate action.
Grammar and Mechanics
Significant errors make summary hard to read
Minimal errors exist and do not impede meaning.
Summary is free of grammatical or mechanical errors.
Dear Dallas Chamber of Commerce,
We at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas are one of the largest
health insurers in our region. It is our mission to promote the
health and wellness of our members and our communities
through accessible, affordable and quality healthcare. As a
pillar of the Dallas community, it is also our duty to give back
and help the many families who are in need. We already have a
community program set in place called Healthy Kids, Healthy
Families. This program addresses areas in nutrition, physical
activity, disease prevention and management, and supports safe
environments (Healthy). We would like to expand upon our
already existing program and offer aid to children who have
parents that have been incarcerated for drug abuse.
12. Background and Goals
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice reports that children
of offenders have a 70% greater likelihood of becoming
involved in the criminal justice system (TDCJ). In Dallas-Fort
Worth alone 70,000 children have parents who are incarcerated,
so this means DFW potentially has 49,000 future inmates
(TDCJ).
Also, according to the statistics report by DEA FD, powder and
crack cocaine usage has increased due to its high and stable
available market that comes from Mexico. Statistics show that
14% of young people have access and are abusing this substance
(SUBSTANCE). Another highly accessible drug is alcohol, the
primary drug abused in Dallas with statistics showing that 62%
of secondary school students (grades 7 -12) have consumed it,
and 29% had consumed alcohol in the previous month
(SUBSTANCE).
Substance abuse also negatively affects the health care system.
Figure 1 below is provided by the National Institute on Drug
Abuse breaks down the costs different drugs have on healthcare
(Trends). The overall costs due to drug abuse consists of costs
related to crime, lost work productivity, and healthcare
combined. Health care costs alone account for 24 percent of
these overall costs.
Figure 1
As a healthcare insurer these costs are of great concern to us. If
we can reduce the rate of substance abuse in Dallas we would
also be helping our local healthcare system, which is a goal in
our Healthy Kids, Healthy Families initiative.
Through our program Break the Cycle, we want to help youths
13. realize that although their parents have made poor decisions
regarding drug use, they have a choice to not follow that path.
There are many programs that help teens who are already in the
juvenile detention system due to drug abuse. For example, The
Dallas County Juvenile Department offers many services such
as clinical, educational, institutional, and probation services
(Dallas). Although our goal is to prevent youths from drug
abuse and future incarceration, The Dallas County Juvenile
Department services offered a great template for our program.
Thier services gave us an idea of what kind of professionals we
should employ, counseling services to provide the families, and
what kind of background check should be run on our volunteers.
The program we are proposing is important to us because two of
our members grew up in families with parents who have a
substance problem. They both expressed that a program like this
would have made a big difference in their lives, such as keeping
their grades up, and helping them evaluate their own self-worth.
Having a substance abusing parent is like having a ticking time
bomb in a home. One of our members, Kathryn, never knew
when her mother would be stopping by to see her and never
knew where she was. All she knew was that her mother always
looked and acted differently on the rare occasions that she
would see her. Broken promises and scary arguments caused
depression in Kathryn’s life at such a young age. She never had
a chance to experience life in a normal family and had always
wondered why her mother did the things that she did and never
wanted to come home. We hope our program can break this type
of cycle and prevent these children from repeating their parents
mistakes, gain self-worth and help them understand that no
matter what pressures they may face drug use is not an option.
Proposed Plan
According to the National Council on Child Abuse and Family
Violence, “Parents' abuse of alcohol and other drugs can lead to
14. a cycle of addiction, which is reflected by high rates of
alcoholism and other substance abuse among children of
addicts. Substance abuse among youth leads to a domino effect
of problems in school, involvement in juvenile justice, teen
pregnancy, and mental and emotional turmoil” (Parental).
Through our Break The Cycle program we are determined to
prevent youths from following existing bad habits in their
homes. Our program targets children in middle school who have
parent(s) or guardian(s) that have been or are currently
incarcerated because of substance abuse. We will give these
children an opportunity to see that they can take control of their
own lives and decisions when it comes to drugs.
As found by the editors of Children of Substance-Abusing
Parents, “Consequently, in a family in which one of the
members becomes a substance abuser, profound and significant
implications for the rest of the family can be anticipated as
familial roles are shifted and generational boundaries are
crossed. For example, as a substance-abusing parent becomes
unable to fulfill his or her role, other family members, including
the children, may begin to fill the existing vacuum and assume
the missing parental roles and responsibilities, often at the
expense of their own development” (Straussner). The vision of
our program is to fill the emptiness that the children may feel
inside due to an absent parent. Staff can do this by sharing
knowledge about drug use and using encouragement with the
group of students that they work with to make them feel like
their lives still matter and their only job is to be a kid.
Children of Substance-Abusing Parents also mentions that when
a parent is addicted to drugs, “the child is essentially parentless
and likely learns to take care of himself or herself.
Unfortunately, depending on the child’s age, he or she may
become a ‘parentified child’, who becomes a caretaker of his or
her own parents and siblings even at the cost of his or her own
development” (Straussner). We wish to become role models for
15. these children and let them know that they are not alone.
Our program will serve 100 students using 12 counselors and 10
volunteers. Flyers will be sent to high school student
organizations to request volunteers and offer community service
hours that are required for graduation. Background checks will
be administered on everyone on the staff team, including
volunteers. Our program will take place on Saturdays from
10:00a.m. to 4:00p.m. and will include lunch for everyone. We
request that the volunteers and staff come early to set up
lunches and activities for the day. To join our program it is up
to the parents or current guardians of the children to sign them
up. This shows that the parents involved in substance abuse are
willing to better the lives of their children and it can show
responsibility roles by the parent if they decide to mention this
program in court.
The flyer in Figure 2 will be sent to the students of Thomas C
Marsh Middle School, Medrano Middle School and Edward H.
Cary Middle School which are in the well known drug
influenced neighborhood located, near Webb Chapel Rd., Marsh
Ln., Royal Ln. and Forest Ln. Flyers will also be sent to Child
Protective Services and the Dallas Police Department serving
the specified Dallas area.
Figure 2
Break The Cycle is completely non-profit and it is free to all the
students who join. Edward H. Cary Middle School is our chosen
destination for the program to take place and we have decided
to provide transportation using buses to and from the nearest 3
middle schools mentioned above. Students will be split into
several groups in a five to one student:counselor ratio. These
groups will rotate to different stations throughout the day so
each student experiences the most from our program. As the
16. flyer above indicates, the students will then be involved in
several activities that build teamwork, self-worth, confidence,
responsibility and ethics which are traits they may not be able
to learn from their drug abusing parent(s) at home. These
activities include: arts and crafts, sports, games, group
counseling, and drug awareness speeches. Students wanting
assistance in homework are also encouraged to bring their
school work to participate in an optional tutoring station. If any
additional one-on-one counseling or parent-child counselling is
desired by the student or parent, our professional counselors
will be available Tuesday through Friday for private
appointments. We believe that it is important for these students
to know that having a substance abusing parent is not their fault
and addiction is not an easy illness to overcome. In addition, we
will focus on the risks, consequences, and side effects of using
drugs as well as the difficulty to withdraw from current drug
using.
The primary goal of Break the Cycle is to lower the Dallas
statistics of children following their drug addicted parent’s
footsteps and for them to understand that being drug free is the
best option. Therefore it will lead to less youths being
incarcerated for substance abuse which means saving the futures
of many generations. With the program being only on Saturdays
during the school year we wish to expand it to the summer time
as well, taking place on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Our focus
is to make a positive influence on these young students before
they begin their journey through high school where drugs and
influences can become part of everyday life.
2016 Schedule
Below is a brief outline of the schedule if Break The Cycle is
approved by July of 2016
· Send flyers out within the first week of school
August 22
17. · Deadline for parents to sign up
September 12
· School Year Program Begins
September 17
· School Year Program Ends June
3
· Send flyers out for summer registration May 22
· Deadline for parents to sign up (summer)
June 5
· Summer Program Begins June 12
· Summer Program Ends August 5
Staffing
To help plan all of our activities and events, we will be bringing
on a full time project manager, who will be in charge of running
our drug prevention program. This project manager would
handle everything from getting in contact with volunteer
services to finding volunteers, to getting the program prepared
for feeding over 100 kids in the program a nice, healthy
Saturday lunch. They would also be in charge of more important
things such as getting the background checks on all of the staff,
as well as on all of our volunteers. We would also bring on two
full time and ten part time certified counselors who would work
directly with these children to ensure that they are on the right
path at home, in school, and most importantly, in life. The full
time counselors would be available Tuesday thru Friday for any
additional counseling that any child would need during the
week. Our program would also bring on many volunteers,
mainly high school students with the ability to relate to the
children, also to help prepare the food during lunch for the 100
children. They will additionally help prepare the many activities
for the children to be engaged in. Lastly, we would employ two
school bus drivers to run routes for our program on Saturdays to
help bring all of these children together, and even bring them
all home at the end of the day.
18. Budget
Our research has shown that the annual budget of running drug
prevention program for minors is around $300,000 based on
Virginia's existing programs and according to West Virginia
Department of Health and Human Resources Bureau for
Behavioral Health and Health Facilities, “Substance Abuse
Prevention Program” (Substance). The tables on the following
pages show the individual costs of each of the components
needed. We also have 10 volunteers. However, they are not
considered in the costs. The office space (LoopNet), bus rental
cost (Bus Results) and bus driver cost (Salary.com) were found
online.
Table 1: The total cost during the school year is $168,414 as
shown in the table below.
Table 2: The total cost during the summer is $72,778 as shown
in the table below.
The total cost for the whole year would be $241,192.
As shown in Figure 3 below, we plan on getting 60% of the
funds from Blue Cross Blue Shield and 40% of the funds from
other donations, such as fundraisers and events.
Figure 3
19. Conclusion and Authorization
As seen above, this program Breaking the Cycle is there to
ensure that the children of Dallas and the community at large
remains drug free. This will be done by educating and
counseling those children on the importance of remaining drug
free rather than following in the footsteps of their addicted
parents. The children will receive counseling sessions and will
also be involved in different activities to help them build
various good traits that will help them in school and in society.
The city of Dallas is in great need for such a program with rates
of drug related incarcerations being higher than surrounding
cities. This is why Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas, with
the help of fundraisers and other donations, offers this program
free to the students and families in need. We hope that the
absence of fees encourages parents to enroll their children into
this program and as a result our program will grow and expand
in years to come. It is known that the youths of today are the
leaders of tomorrow and thus it is key that we invest in them by
ensuring they stay off drugs that may ruin their future. We all
know the effects that drugs have on a person, his or her family
and the community at large. Thus investing in these children
whose first role models have indulged in drug activities will not
only help them as individuals but also help the city of Dallas at
large.