For this assessment, you will develop a 3 page paper that examines a safety quality issue in a health care setting. You will analyze the issue and examine potential evidence-based and best-practice solutions from the literature as well as the role of nurses and other stakeholders in addressing the issue.
Criterion: 1. Explains factors leading to a specific patient-safety risk in a health care setting.
Makes reference to specific data, evidence, or standards to illustrate the safety risk.
2. Explains evidence-based and best practice solutions to improve patient safety and reduce costs. Makes explicit reference to scholarly or professional resources to support explanation.
3. Explains how nurses can help coordinate care to increase patient safety and reduce costs, providing specific examples related to a patient safety risk.
4. Identifies stakeholders with whom nurses would need to coordinate to drive quality and safety enhancements with a specific safety quality issue, noting the relevance and potential importance of the stakeholders.
5. Organizes content with a clear purpose. Content flows logically with smooth transitions using coherent paragraphs, correct grammar or punctuation, word choice, and free of spelling errors.
6. Apply APA formatting to in-text citations and references exhibiting nearly flawless adherence to APA format. Exhibits strict and flawless adherence to APA formatting of headings, in-text citations, and references. Quotes and paraphrases correctly.