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Please see attached documents for further instructions. Please feel free to contact me for any questions Assessment 1 Instructions: Enhancing Quality and Safety For this assessment, you will develop a 3-5 page paper that examines a safety quality issue pertaining to medication administration 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. 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 a quality improvement (QI) initiative in the health care setting. Be sure that your plan addresses the following, which corresponds to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Please study the scoring guide carefully so that you know what is needed for a distinguished score. ● Explain factors leading to a specific patient-safety risk focusing on medication administration. ● Explain evidence-based and best-practice solutions to improve patient safety focusing on medication administration and reducing costs. ● Explain how nurses can help coordinate care to increase patient safety with medication administration and reduce costs. ● Identify stakeholders with whom nurses would coordinate to drive safety enhancements with medication administration. ● Communicate using writing that is clear, logical, and professional, with correct grammar and spelling, using current APA style. Additional Requirements ● Length of submission: 3–5 pages, plus title and reference pages. ● Number of references: Cite a minimum of 4 sources of scholarly or professional evidence that support your findings and considerations. Resources should be no more than 5 years old. ● APA formatting: References and citations are formatted according to current APA style. Assessment 2 Instructions: Root-Cause Analysis and Safety Improvement Plan For this assessment, you can use a supplied template to conduct a root-cause analysis. The completed assessment will be a scholarly paper focusing on a quality or safety issue pertaining to medication administration in a health care setting of your choice as well as a safety improvement plan. Scenario For this assessment, you may choose from the following options as the subject of a root-cause analysis and safety improvement plan: ● The specific safety concern identified in your previous assessment pertaining to medication administration safety concerns. ● The readings, case studies, or a personal experience in which a sentinel event occurred surrounding an issue or concern with medication administration. Additionally, be sure that your plan addresses the following, which corresponds to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Please study the scoring guide carefully so you understand what is needed for a distinguished score. ● Analyze the root cause of a patient safety issue or a specific sentinel event pertaining to medication administration in an organization. ● Apply evidence-based and best-practice strategies to address the safety issue or sentinel event pertaining to medication administration. ● Create a feasible, evidence-based safety improvement plan for safe medication administration. ● Identify organizational resources that could be leveraged to improve your plan for safe medication administration. ● Communicate in writing that is clear, logical, and professional, with correct grammar and spelling, using current APA style. ● Length of submission: Use the provided Root-Cause Analysis and Improvement Plan template to create a 4–6 page root cause analysis and safety improvement plan pertaining to medication administration. ● Number of references: Cite a minimum of 3 sources of scholarly or professional evidence that support your findings and considerations. Resources should be no more than 5 years old. ● APA formatting: Format references and citations according to current APA style. Please use these sub-titles for paper: Root-Cause Analysis and Improvement Plan Root-Cause Analysis Application of Evidence-Based Strategies Improvement Plan Conclusion Assessment 3 Instructions: Improvement Plan In-Service Presentation For this assessment, you will develop an 8-14 slide PowerPoint presentation with thorough speaker's notes designed for a hypothetical in-service session related to the safe medication administration improvement plan you developed in Assessment 2. Scenario For this assessment it is suggested you take one of two approaches: 1. Build on the work that you have done in your first two assessments and create an agenda and PowerPoint of an educational in-service session that would help a specific staff audience learn, provide feedback, and understand their roles and practice new skills related to your safety improvement plan pertaining to medication administration, or 2. Locate a safety improvement plan through an external resource and create an agenda and PowerPoint of an educational in-service session that would help a specific staff audience learn, provide feedback, and understand their roles and practice new skills related to the issues and improvement goals pertaining to medication administration safety. Instructions The final deliverable for this assessment will be a PowerPoint presentation with detailed presenter's notes representing the material you would deliver at an in-service session to raise awareness of your chosen safety improvement initiative focusing on medication administration and to explain the need for it. Additionally, you must educate the audience as to their role and importance to the success of the initiative. This includes providing examples and practice opportunities to test out new ideas or practices related to the safety improvement initiative. Be sure that your presentation addresses the following, which corresponds to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Please study the scoring guide carefully so you understand what is needed for a distinguished score. ● List the purpose and goals of an in-service session focusing on safe medication administration for nurses. ● Explain the need for and process to improve safety outcomes related to medication administration. ● Explain to the audience their role and importance of making the improvement plan focusing on medication administration successful. ● Create resources or activities to encourage skill development and process understanding related to a safety improvement initiative on medication administration. ● Communicate with nurses in a respectful and informative way that clearly presents expectations and solicits feedback on communication strategies for future improvement. Additional Requirements ● Presentation length: There is no required length; use just enough slides to address all the necessary elements. Remember to use short, concise bullet points on the slides and expand on your points in the presenter's notes. If you use 2 or 3 slides to address each of the parts in the above example, your presentation would be 10–15 slides. ● Speaker notes: Speaker notes should reflect what you would actually say if you were delivering the presentation to an audience. Another presenter would be able to use the presentation by following the speaker notes. ● APA format: Use APA formatting for in-text citations. Include an APA-formatted reference slide at the end of your presentation. ● Number of references: Cite a minimum of 3 sources of scholarly or professional evidence to support your assertions. Resources should be no more than 5 years old. SAMPLE: ● Part 1: Agenda and Outcomes. ○ Explain to your audience what they are going to learn or do, and what they are expected to take away. ● Part 2: Safety Improvement Plan. ○ Give an overview of the current problem focusing on medication administration, the proposed plan, and what the improvement plan is trying to address. ○ Explain why it is important for the organization to address the current situation. ● Part 3: Audience’s Role and Importance. ○ Discuss how the staff audience will be expected to help implement and drive the improvement plan. ○ Explain why they are critical to the success of the improvement plan focusing on medication administration. ○ Describe how their work could benefit from embracing their role in the plan. ● Part 4: New Process and Skills Practice. ○ Explain new processes or skills. ○ Develop an activity that allows the staff audience to practice and ask questions about these new processes and skills. ○ In the notes section of your PowerPoint, brainstorm potential responses to likely questions or concerns. ● Part 5: Soliciting Feedback. ○ Describe how you would solicit feedback from the audience on the improvement plan and the in-service. ○ Explain how you might integrate this feedback for future improvements. Assessment 4 Instructions: Improvement Plan Tool Kit For this assessment, you will develop a Word document or an online resource repository of at least 12 annotated professional or scholarly resources that you consider critical for the audience of your safety improvement plan, pertaining to medication administration, to understand or implement to ensure the success of the plan. ******Google Sites is recommended for this assessment***** not mandatory Scenario For this assessment, consider taking one of these two approaches: 1. Build on the work done in your first three assessments and create an online tool kit or resource repository that will help the audience of your in-service understand the research behind your safety improvement plan pertaining to medication administration and put the plan into action. 2. Locate a safety improvement plan (your current organization, the Institution for Healthcare Improvement, or a publicly available safety improvement initiative) pertaining to medication administration and create an online tool kit or resource repository that will help an audience understand the research behind the safety improvement plan and how to put the plan into action. Instructions Using Google Sites, assemble an online resource tool kit containing at least 12 annotated resources that you consider critical to the success of your safety improvement initiative. These resources should enable nurses and others to implement and maintain the safety improvement you have developed. It is recommended that you focus on the 3 or 4 most critical categories or themes with respect to your safety improvement initiative pertaining to medication administration. For example, for an initiative that concerns improving workplace safety for practitioners, you might choose broad themes such as general organizational safety and quality best practices; environmental safety and quality risks; individual strategies to improve personal and team safety; and process best practices for reporting and improving environmental safety issues. Following the recommended scheme, you would collect 3 resources on average for each of the 4 categories focusing on safety with medication administration. Each resource listing should include the following: ● An APA-formatted citation of the resource with a working link. ● A description of the information, skills, or tools provided by the resource. ● A brief explanation of how the resource can help nurses better understand or implement the safety improvement initiative pertaining to medication administration. ● A description of how nurses can use this resource and when its use may be appropriate. Remember that you must make your site "public" so that your faculty can access it. Check out the Google Sites resources for more information.