Assessing the Problem: Quality, Safety, and Cost Considerations
Assessment 2: Assessing the Problem: Quality, Safety, and Cost Considerations
In a 5 page written assessment, assess the effect of the patient, family, or population problem you\’ve previously defined on the quality of care, patient safety, and costs to the system and individual. Plan to spend approximately 2 direct practicum hours exploring these aspects of the problem with the patient, family, or group you\’ve chosen to work with and, if desired, consulting with subject matter and industry experts. Document the time spent (your practicum hours) with these individuals or group in the Core Elms Volunteer Experience Form. Report on your experiences during your first two practicum hours.
1. Provides a convincing explanation of how a patient, family, or population problem impacts the quality of care, patient safety, and costs to the system and individual by providing specific individual, family, or population examples of such impacts.
2. Provides an explanation—based on a perceptive and coherent synthesis of current literature—of how state board nursing practice standards and/or organizational or governmental policies can affect a patient, family, or population problem’s impact on the quality of care, patient safety, and costs to the system and individual. Provides clear insight into how policy affects nursing scope of practice and will inform and guide an intervention.
3. Proposes strategies, supported by examples, to improve the quality of care, enhance patient safety, and reduce costs to the system and individual. Exhibits clear insight into the effectiveness of the strategies and available sources of relevant benchmark data. Documents the practicum hours spent with these individuals or group in the CORE ELMS Volunteer Experience Form
4. Uses concise paraphrasing or summarization to accurately represent ideas from external sources. Exhibits an insightful interpretation and synthesis of credible sources.
5. Applies APA style and formatting to scholarly writing. Exhibits strict and nearly flawless adherence to stylistic conventions, document structure, and source attributions.
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