Running head: APPLYING RESEARCH SKILLS 1 Copyright ©2018 Capella University. Copy and distribution of this document are prohibited. Applying Research Skills Learner’s Name Capella University Developing a Health Care Perspective Applying Research Skills February, 2018 Comment [A1]: You effectively used the APA Template paper format. APPLYING RESEARCH SKILLS 2 Copyright ©2018 Capella University. Copy and distribution of this document are prohibited. Applying Research Skills With the advent of new technologies and treatment methods, health care organizations are facing many challenges. Patient safety is one such challenge that needs to be addressed not only by health care professionals but also by other stakeholders in the business. Ensuring patient safety is essential for providing quality health care. As a medical transcriptionist, I am responsible for converting voice-recorded reports of health care professionals into text. Although I am not directly involved in treating patients, any errors that occur during the transcription process could result in inaccurate documentation of medical data. For example, one of my colleagues documented the dosage of Lasix as 400 mg instead of 40 mg in a discharge summary. When the health care professional who had dictated the report reviewed it, he was able to spot the error in the dosage and correct it, which helped prevent the patient from having a dangerous reaction to the incorrect dosage. This incident helped me realize the importance of preparing accurate documents for ensuring patient safety and delivering quality care. I developed a keen interest in issues relating to patient safety ever since. Identifying Academic Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles Using Summon, Capella University Library’s search engine, I accessed databases relating to health care, such as ProQuest Central and PubMed Central. I used keywords such as health care issues, patient safety, and quality of care to search for peer-reviewed literature relevant to patient safety. Using the advanced search option, I limited my search to scholarly and peer- reviewed journals, choosing journal article as the publication type, medicine and nursing as the subjects, and articles published within the last five years as the publication date range. Comment [A2]: You effectively summarized a health care problem and described an interest in the topic, and provided an informative example. APPLYING RESEARCH SKILLS 3 Copyright ©2018 Capella University. Copy and distribution of this document are prohibited. Assessing Credibility and Relevance of Information Sources To ensure credibility, I selected peer-reviewed journal articles that were published within the past five years. I made sure that the selected sources were published by authors who were well-known in the field of health care and had extensive professional experience. To ensure that the ch.

1. Running head: APPLYING RESEARCH SKILLS 1
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Applying Research Skills
Learner’s Name
Capella University
Developing a Health Care Perspective
Applying Research Skills
February, 2018

2. Comment [A1]: You effectively used the APA
Template paper format.
APPLYING RESEARCH SKILLS 2
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Applying Research Skills
With the advent of new technologies and treatment methods,
health care organizations
are facing many challenges. Patient safety is one such challenge
that needs to be addressed not
only by health care professionals but also by other stakeholders
in the business. Ensuring patient
safety is essential for providing quality health care.
As a medical transcriptionist, I am responsible for converting
voice-recorded reports of
health care professionals into text. Although I am not directly
involved in treating patients, any
errors that occur during the transcription process could result in

3. inaccurate documentation of
medical data. For example, one of my colleagues documented
the dosage of Lasix as 400 mg
instead of 40 mg in a discharge summary. When the health care
professional who had dictated
the report reviewed it, he was able to spot the error in the
dosage and correct it, which helped
prevent the patient from having a dangerous reaction to the
incorrect dosage. This incident
helped me realize the importance of preparing accurate
documents for ensuring patient safety
and delivering quality care. I developed a keen interest in issues
relating to patient safety ever
since.
Identifying Academic Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Using Summon, Capella University Library’s search engine, I
accessed databases relating
to health care, such as ProQuest Central and PubMed Central. I
used keywords such as health
care issues, patient safety, and quality of care to search for
peer-reviewed literature relevant to
patient safety. Using the advanced search option, I limited my
search to scholarly and peer-

4. reviewed journals, choosing journal article as the publication
type, medicine and nursing as the
subjects, and articles published within the last five years as the
publication date range.
Comment [A2]: You effectively summarized a
health care problem and described an interest in the
topic, and provided an informative example.
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this document are prohibited.
Assessing Credibility and Relevance of Information Sources
To ensure credibility, I selected peer-reviewed journal articles
that were published within
the past five years. I made sure that the selected sources were
published by authors who were
well-known in the field of health care and had extensive
professional experience.
To ensure that the chosen sources of information were relevant
to the topic, I confirmed
that they contained accepted facts and opinions on issues
relating to patient safety and quality

5. care. I also checked whether each information source had a
clearly defined purpose and
contained pertinent information about patient safety and quality
care.
Annotated Bibliography
Kronick, R., Arnold, S., & Brady, J. (2016, August 2).
Improving safety for hospitalized patients:
Much progress but many challenges remain. The JAMA
Network, 316(5), 489–490.
Retrieved from https://jamanetwork-
com.library.capella.edu/journals/jama/fullarticle/2528945
This article provides a viewpoint on the progress that hospitals
have made toward
reducing patient harm and understand the factors that have led
to this progress. The
authors cite reports released by the Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality (AHRQ)
and the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) to analyze
the occurrence of issues
relating to patient safety in hospitals. The authors hypothesize
that improvement in health
care safety for hospitalized patients may have been possible
because of reasons such as

6. an awareness of the importance of improving safety culture with
evidence-based
suggestions. The authors conclude by expressing the need for
finding ways to maintain or
accelerate the rate of decline in adverse events relating to
patient harm. They believe that
Comment [A3]: Sub-headers are a helpful
resource to use to organize your writing!
Comment [A4]: As you noted, it is best to select
current peer-reviewed academic journal articles to
ensure current practices.
Comment [A5]: In your annotation, you
effectively identified the purpose of the article.
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investing in patient safety research programs and ensuring that
patient safety remains a
high priority for hospital leadership teams can help reduce the
number of adverse events.
This article is relevant to patient safety because it examines
evidence of reduction in

7. patient harms in hospitals and offers approaches to reduce such
harms.
Morris, S., Otto, N. C., & Golemboski, K. (2013). Improving
patient safety and healthcare
quality in the 21st century—Competencies required of future
medical laboratory science
practitioners. Clinical Laboratory Science, 26(4), 200–204.
Retrieved from https://search-
proquest-
com.library.capella.edu/docview/1530677721/fulltextPDF/CF6F
9C5B900402CPQ/1?acc
ountid=27965
In this article, the authors express their concern about health
care professionals,
particularly medical laboratory science (MLS) practitioners,
being insufficiently trained
to achieve the five core competencies that the Institute of
Medicine (IOM) identified in
2002. The authors discuss ways to incorporate patient safety
practices and concepts in the
MLS curricula to ensure that future MLS practitioners are well-
versed in the above-

8. mentioned competencies identified by the IOM. The authors
conclude that by focusing on
the aims and competencies identified by the IOM, future
practitioners will be better
equipped to deal with patient safety concerns while practicing
MLS. This article was
chosen because it offers a solution for dealing with patient
safety issues and explains how
patient safety concepts can be incorporated in the curricula for
courses pertaining to
Comment [A6]: In your annotation, you clearly
summarized the main argument and the topics
covered.
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health care, such as MLS, to enable future health care
practitioners to provide effective
health care.
Parand, A., Dopson, S., Renz, A., & Vincent, C. (2014). The
role of hospital managers in quality

9. and patient safety: A systematic review. BMJ Open, 4(9).
http://dx.doi.org/
10.1136/bmjopen-2014-005055
This article provides a systematic review of available empirical
literature to understand
how health care managers are involved in delivering quality
health care and ensuring
patient safety. Based on the literature review, the authors
suggest that board-level
managers should spend more than 25% of their time on patient
safety and quality to
ensure positive outcomes; however, most of the reviewed
studies indicate that they spend
much less time than that. The authors also present a quality
management input process
output (IPO) model, a framework that will help managers
function effectively and
achieve health care quality and safety. The authors conclude
that there is a need to make
certain changes in hospitals to ensure the active involvement of
managers in quality
improvement. The article is relevant to patient safety because it
discusses the role of

10. health care managers in influencing patient safety and quality
care outcomes and also
proposes a model to help managers understand this role.
Ulrich, B., & Kear, T. (2014). Patient safety and patient safety
culture: Foundations of excellent
health care delivery. Nephrology Nursing Journal, 41(5), 447–
456, 505. Retrieved from
https://search-proquest-
Comment [A7]: In your annotation, you
effectively included the conclusions and findings of
the article.
Comment [A8]: You listed the full reference for
the source in APA format (author, date, title,
publisher, et cetera) and used APA format for the
annotated bibliography. An impressive application
of APA formatting!
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11. This article provides a general understanding of the concepts of
patient safety and patient
safety culture. The authors explain that the health care system is
complex and patient
safety is the responsibility of every individual in a health care
organization. They discuss
some tools that can be used to measure patient safety culture,
for example, the Safety
Attitudes Questionnaire and the Patient Safety Culture
Improvement Tool. They also
examine several strategies to encourage a patient safety culture,
such as ensuring that
patient safety is given as much importance as other core
business functions. This article
was chosen because it offers strategies for preventing adverse
events relating to patient
safety and emphasizes the importance of teamwork within a
health care organization to
ensure safe patient care.
Learnings From the Research
I gathered important facts and scholarly opinions about patient
safety by going through
peer-reviewed journal articles. This research enriched my

12. knowledge about patient safety. For
example, after reading the article on improving safety for
hospitalized patients by Kronick,
Arnold, and Brady (2016), I learned about patient harms (such
as catheter-associated urinary
tract infections and pressure ulcers) that I was unaware of
before this research. Further, by
creating an annotated bibliography, I was able to build a
repository of scholarly resources
relating to patient safety. This will make it easier for me to
choose relevant resources while
writing the paper on issues concerning patient safety.
Comment [A9]: Peer-reviewed journal articles
are validated sources. Outstanding article choices!
Comment [A10]: You effectively summarized
the main points learned from your research.
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References

13. Kronick, R., Arnold, S., & Brady, J. (2016, August 2).
Improving safety for hospitalized patients:
Much progress but many challenges remain. The JAMA
Network, 316(5), 489–490.
Retrieved from https://jamanetwork-
com.library.capella.edu/journals/jama/fullarticle/2528945
Morris, S., Otto, N. C., & Golemboski, K. (2013). Improving
patient safety and healthcare
quality in the 21st century—Competencies required of future
medical laboratory science
practitioners. Clinical Laboratory Science, 26(4), 200–204.
Retrieved from https://search-
proquest-
com.library.capella.edu/docview/1530677721/fulltextPDF/CF6F
9C5B900402CPQ/1?acc
ountid=27965
Parand, A., Dopson, S., Renz, A., & Vincent, C. (2014). The
role of hospital managers in quality
and patient safety: A systematic review. BMJ Open, 4(9).
http://dx.doi.org/
10.1136/bmjopen-2014-005055
Ulrich, B., & Kear, T. (2014). Patient safety and patient safety

14. culture: Foundations of excellent
health care delivery. Nephrology Nursing Journal, 41(5), 447–
456, 505. Retrieved from
https://search-proquest-
com.library.capella.edu/docview/1617932572/fulltextPDF/1486
CC30B3624B3CPQ/1?ac
countid=27965