Assignment: Nursing-sensitive Quality
Assignment: Nursing-sensitive Quality
institution NUR-400-04: Recommend interprofessional strategies that improve nursing-sensitive quality indicators NUR-400-05: Articulate the role of leadership in the planning, analysis, and implementation of performance improvement initiatives within the
organization NUR-400-06: Analyze the relationship between quality outcomes and value-based reimbursement in healthcare for improvement opportunities
Prompt
Your presentation should answer the following prompt: Present a proposal for addressing or improving a quality patient indicator within a healthcare organization, including evidence-based and peer-reviewed support, an implementation plan, and considerations of organizational and leadership roles. Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
I. Introduction a) Organization: Analyze the organization to determine the key characteristics (including organizational values if applicable) that are important to
consider when developing plans for change and implementation of quality indicator proposals.
b) Improvement Opportunity: What is the issue(s) involving patient safety and financial considerations within the organization that needs to be
addressed? Explain the connection between patient safety and financial state of the organization in terms of opportunity presented. c) Purpose: Articulate the overall purpose of your proposal/proposed initiative for improving quality of care within your organization. In other
words, what is your intended initiative for addressing the issue(s)/improvement opportunity identified? d) Proposal Initiative: Detail the initiative you are proposing in terms of its application to your organization. In other words, what is it that you are
proposing, and why is it relevant for your organization? e) Leadership: Articulate the role leadership plays in the current situation/environment that needs to be addressed. In other words, in presenting
your proposal to leadership, you will need to articulate the overall role they play in the current environment, such as whether leadership is attempting to address the issue, is unintentionally furthering the issue, or has not yet identified your concerns as an organizational issue.
You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.
Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.
