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1. Promoting Quality Health Care
Promoting Quality Health CareAssignment – ‘ Promoting quality healthcare’ unit (Health
Care Field)1 . A critical review of selected three key literature that underpins the use of a
risk assessment tool for a specific health or social care area of practice (2,500
words)Content of assessment 1, an essay with no headings.• Identify, describe and analyse
the risk assessment tool you will focus upon. You will need to use a range of literature to do
this.• You then need to find three specific pieces of research or guidelines (not local) that
are relevant to the risk assessment tool you have chosen to analyse. These must be robust
and of good quality.• Critically analyse those three pieces of literature and use that analysis
to evaluate how useful the risk assessment tool is and whether it is being used effectively in
the practice environment.• Draw together your findings in the conclusion.General
guidelinesPlease refer to the grading profile (Essay) assignments. The assignments must be
presented, referenced and written in a manner consistent with degree level requirements.
The assignments must also be supported throughout with appropriate analysis of relevant
literature and research.BRADEN SCALE IS THE ASSESSMENT TOOL I CHOOSE FOR
PRESSURE ULCERPLEASE IT THE ESSAY SHOULD BE WELL INTEXTEDPLEASES THE
REFERENCE SOURCES I PROVIDED ON MY ORDER SHOULD BE USEDPLEASE DONT USE
SOURCE FROM GOOGLEReferencing Requirements:EssentialAras, G. & Crowther, D. (2010)
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inept practice’ , in Currie, L. (ed) (2007) Understanding patient safety. London: Quay Books.

2. pp. 53-78.National Patient Safety Agency (2005) Building a memory: preventing harm,
reducing risks and improving patient safety. London: NPSA.Reynard, J. et al (2009) Practical
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