Description
Activity 5
Healthcare Priority Issue
Baccalaureate education will provide learning opportunities to use safety principles, quality improvement concepts, basic quality and safety investigations, and monitoring the results and outcomes (AACN, 2008).
Transforming healthcare and improving quality are priorities for the profession of nursing. The following activity will help you explore key national priority health care areas for quality improvement as identified by the Institute of Medicine. Begin by selecting a key healthcare priority area and a population. Next, review and locate 2 article that describes a nursing intervention designed to improve a patient outcome for the chosen population selected healthcare priority issue. Finally, discuss why it is important for nursing to be involved in Quality Improvement and describe how nursing values can be used to help improve safe patient care.
Access the
Priority Areas for National Action: Transforming Health Quality
and read Chapter 3: Priority Areas for Quality Improvement, pages 41-45. Select ONE priority area (priority healthcare issue) and identify a patient population you would like to explore.
Additional Instructions:
All submissions should have a title page and reference page.
Utilize a minimum of two scholarly resources.
Adhere to grammar, spelling and punctuation criteria.
Adhere to APA compliance guidelines.
Adhere to the chosen Submission Option for Delivery of Activity guidelines.
Submission Options:
Choose One:
Instructions:
Paper
4 to 6-page paper. Include title and reference pages.
Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation
8 to 10 slides. Add title and reference slides.
Follow Rules of 7.
Other media (Prezi, etc.) presentation
8 to 10 slides with speaker notes. Add title and reference slides.
Follow Rules of 7.
Video Presentation
5 to 6-minute video presentation.
Attach reference page or include in video.
Professional appearance and background.
Video submissions must include a script in Word format, submitted through Turnitin for an Originality Report.
Table
Table with appropriate columns and headers.
Include title and reference pages.
Graphs or other illustrations
Graphs or illustrations with appropriate labels. Include title and reference pages.
Poster
Poster utilizing any applicable poster template. Include visual graphics/images/other formats for visual appeal. Include appropriate title and references on poster.
Note: Title and reference pages/slides do not count towards the count requirements. Healthcare Policy and Regulations – Healthcare Priority Issue
QSEN Competencies: 1) Patient-Centered Care 4) Quality Improvement 5) Safety BSN Essential II
Description: The baccalaureate-graduate nurse will demonstrate knowledge of quality improvement methods to effectively implement patient safety initiatives, monitor performance measures, and participate in the development of imaginative and creative strategies to enable systems to change.
Course Competencies: 3) Examine the effect of health and social policies on persons with diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds. 5) Construct nursing interventions that provide high quality, safe healthcare using nursing-sensitive indicators.
Area
Gold Mastery
Silver Proficient
Bronze Acceptable
Acceptable Mastery not Demonstrated
Identifies and describes the selected healthcare priority issue, the population it involves, and the significance of the health care issue. Includes facts or data.
Identifies and describes the selected healthcare priority issue, the population it involves, and the significance of the health care issue. Includes facts or data.
Completes three of the four-
1) Identifies and describes the selected healthcare priority issue, 2) the population it involves, and
3) the significance of the health care issue. 4) Includes facts or data.
Completes two of the four-
1) Identifies and describes the selected healthcare priority issue, 2)the population it involves, and
3) the significance of the health care issue. 4) Includes facts or data.
Completes one of the four-
1) Identifies and describes the selected healthcare priority issue, 2)the population it involves, and
3) the significance of the health care issue. 4) Includes facts or data.
Discusses the rationale for choosing the priority healthcare issue and explains the priority healthcare issue importance to nursing. Provides details.
Discusses the rationale for choosing the priority healthcare issue and explains the priority healthcare issue importance to nursing. Provides details.
Completes two of three-
1) Discusses the rationale for choosing the priority healthcare issue and 2) explains the priority healthcare issue importance to nursing.
3) Provides details.
Completes one of three-
1) Discusses the rationale for choosing the priority healthcare issue and 2) explains the priority healthcare issue importance to nursing.
3) Provides details.
