Comparing Vendors Part II The final project for this course will be created each week. Each assignment will lead to a second assignment that adds to the PPT slide deck. In this manner, you create the final project as you progress through the course. This model provides for deeper learner and a more rigorous final project. Create PPT slides based upon assignment part I. Include the following aspects in the assignment: Ø Construct 3-5 PPT […]
Over the ten years I have been a Registered Nurse, I have daily interactions with patients that both share and have a different worldview than I do. I find myself extremely lucky to work in a multicultural environment with co-workers, staff and patients that have many different religious cultural and overall worldviews. This environment has allowed me to understand other cultures a lot better, while being able to provide high quality care. An individual’s worldview […]
Scenario Consider a previous experience or hypothetical situation pertaining to medication errors, and consider how the error could have been prevented or alleviated with the use of evidence-based guidelines. Choose a specific condition of interest surrounding a medication administration safety risk and incorporate evidence-based strategies to support communication and ensure safe and effective care. For this assessment: Analyze a current issue or experience in clinical practice surrounding a medication administration safety risk and identify […]
Assessment 2 Instructions:Root-Cause Analysis andSafety Improvement PlanFor this assessment, you can use a supplied template to conduct a root-cause analysis. Thecompleted assessment will be a scholarly paper focusing on a quality or safety issue pertainingto medication administration in a health care setting of your choice as well as a safetyimprovement plan.ScenarioFor this assessment, you may choose from the following options as the subject of a root-causeanalysis and safety improvement plan:● The specific safety concern identified […]
Assessment 3 Instructions:Improvement Plan In-ServicePresentationFor this assessment, you will develop an 8-14 slide PowerPoint presentation with thoroughspeaker’s notes designed for a hypothetical in-service session related to the safe medicationadministration improvement plan you developed in Assessment 2.ScenarioFor this assessment it is suggested you take one of two approaches: Build on the work that you have done in your first two assessments and create anagenda and PowerPoint of an educational in-service session that would help a specificstaff […]
Assessment 4 Instructions: For this assessment, you will develop a Word document or an online resource repository of atleast 12 annotated professional or scholarly resources that you consider critical for the audienceof your safety improvement plan, pertaining to medication administration, to understand orimplement to ensure the success of the plan.*Google Sites is recommended for this assessment notmandatoryScenarioFor this assessment, consider taking one of these two approaches: Build on the work done in your first three […]
Assessment 1 Instructions:Enhancing Quality andSafetyFor this assessment, you will develop a 3-5 page paper that examines a safety quality issuepertaining to medication administration in a health care setting. You will analyze the issue andexamine potential evidence-based and best-practice solutions from the literature as well as therole of nurses and other stakeholders in addressing the issue.ScenarioConsider a previous experience or hypothetical situation pertaining to medication errors, andconsider how the error could have been prevented or alleviated […]
Pain Management 1. Mr. Will, a 67-year-old patient, is postoperative day 2 after a coronary artery bypass graft operation to revascularize his coronary arteries that were significantly blocked. He has a midline incision of his chest and a 7-inch incision on the inner aspect of his right thigh where a saphenous vein graft was harvested and used to vascularize the blocked coronary artery. The surgeon ordered Oxycodone 5 mg every 4 hours PRN for moderate […]
Patterns of Knowing Paper (20%): Maximum 3 pages excluding title page and references. Do not include an abstract with this paper. Upload the paper including the title page and reference page(s) into the Assignment Link located in Unit 4 in Course Materials. Review the directions regarding Safe Assign on Blackboard. Reflect on your practice and select an experience that you had with a patient or family and explore the five fundamental patterns of knowing (ethical, […]
Imagine you are a healthcare professional and was tasked to create a competency training for the topic of informed consent. Answer the questions below regarding informed consent as if you are delivering this training to a team of doctors and nurses. TOPIC: INFORMED CONSENT 1) What is the topic? (Remember your audience, don’t define things doctors and nurses already know, go deeper into the issue) 2) Why should your employees and providers care? (i.e. associated […]
