Draft a 6-page report on outcome measures, issues, and opportunities for the executive leadership team or applicable stakeholder group.
Introduction
Note: Each assessment in this course builds on the work you completed in the previous assessment. Therefore, you must complete the assessments in this course in the order in which they are presented.
As a nurse leader, you may be called upon to submit a detailed report to your executive leadership team and key stakeholders that describes a quality or safety problem and its effects on outcomes, fully supported by relevant and credible data.
This assessment provides an opportunity to draft such a report in which you can call attention to quality and safety issues and opportunities, effectively support your position, and lay out a plan for change.
This assessment is based on the executive summary you prepared in the previous assessment.
Preparation
Your executive summary captured the attention and interest of the executive leadership team, who have asked you to provide them with a detailed report addressing outcome measures and performance issues or opportunities, including a strategy for ensuring that all aspects of patient care are measured.
Note: As you revise your writing, check out the resources listed on the Writing Center’s Writing Supportpage.
As you prepare to complete this assessment, you may want to think about other related issues to deepen your understanding or broaden your viewpoint. You are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of your professional community. Note that these questions are for your own development and exploration and do not need to be completed or submitted as part of your assessment.
How might you engage stakeholders to help develop, implement, and sustain a vision to actually change and improve patient outcomes?
What arguments might be most effective in obtaining agreement and support?
What recommendations would you make to implement a proposed plan for change?
The following resources are required to complete the assessment.Running head: OUTCOMES, ISSUES, AND OPPORTUNITIES 1
Outcomes Measures, Issues, and Opportunities
Kathryn Forsyth
Capella University
HealthCare Quality Safety Management
Outcome Measures, Issues, and Opportunities
July, 2020
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Outcome Measures, Issues, and Opportunities
Medication administration is a large part of care provided to patients during each shift.
Nurses must deal with multitasking, interruptions, chaotic environments, and maintain
professional quality care. The United States has between 7,000 and 9,000 medication error
related deaths each year (Tarig, Vashisht, & Scherback, 2020). Near misses and adverse events
can occur during any point during the medication process from orders, documenting,
transcribing, dispensing, administering, and/or monitoring (Tarig, 2020). Nurses have high
patient loads, increased responsibilities, need to be aware of health costs and ways to decrease
those costs. This report will address measurable patient outcomes, gaps that need to be addressed
and interventions that are available to improve patient safety.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has defined patient safety as
“freedom from accidental or preventable injuries produced by medical error” (Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), N.D.). A Quality Interagency Coordination Task
Force was created by the Department of Health and Human Services and other federal agencies
has advised using teamwork is an important way to improve patient safety (Buljac-Samardzic,
Dekker-van Doorn, & Maynard, 2018). This interagency team provided an increased awareness
to the media which put a spotlight on an issue that many would have rather ignored. The group
has pushed to increase reporting of all adverse medical events (ADEs). By exposing the issues,
the agency has forced facilities to create new policies and procedures to reduce adverse events.
High-Performing Organizations
Doctors Hospital is a high performing facility with many awards for providing the best
care. This organization has a culture to encourage the staff communicate when they have an
opinion on a way to improve patient care. The administration and leaders use the Triple Aim
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Framework to evaluate the root cause of medication errors within the facility. The goal of Triple
Aim is to provide interventions to improve quality of healthcare. The interventions and goals are
used to improve patient outcomes, patient satisfaction, decrease errors, and reduce cost of
healthcare (American Hospital Association, 2015).
Initiatives focusing on patient-centered quality provides an analysis of the issues and how
to become a High Reliability organization and implement the Triple Aim framework. Both high
reliability and Triple Aim focuses on quality improvement initiatives to reduce and/or prevent
patient injury and improve safety. When using High Reliability and Triple Aim framework, the
facility · Draft a 6-page report on outcome measures, issues, and opportunities for the executive leadership team or applicable stakeholder group. Introduction
Note: Each assessment in this course builds on the work you completed in the previous assessment. Therefore, you must complete the assessments in this course in the order in which they are presented. As a nurse leader, you may be called upon to submit a detailed report to your executive leadership team and key stakeholders that describes a quality or safety problem and its effects on outcomes, fully supported by relevant and credible data. This assessment provides an opportunity to draft such a report in which you can call attention to quality and safety issues and opportunities, effectively support your position, and lay out a plan for change. This assessment is based on the executive summary you prepared in the previous assessment.
· Preparation Your executive summary captured the attention and interest of the executive leadership team, who have asked you to provide them with a detailed report addressing outcome measures and performance issues or opportunities, including a strategy for ensuring that all aspects of patient care are measured.
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Note: As you revise your writing, check out the resources listed on the Writing Center’s
Writing Supportpage. As you prepare to complete this assessment, you may want to think about other related issues to deepen your understanding or broaden your viewpoint. You are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of your professional community. Note that these questions are for your own development and exploration and do not need to be completed or submitted as part of your assessment.
· How might you engage stakeholders to help develop, implement, and sustain a vision to actually change and improve patient outcomes?
· What arguments might be most effective in obtaining agreement and support?
· What recommendations would you make to implement a proposed plan for change?
· The following resources are required to complete the assessment.
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APA Style Paper Tutorial [DOCX]. Use this for your report.
· Requirements
Note: The requirements outlined below correspond to the grading criteria in the Outcome Measures, Issues, and Opportunities Scoring Guide. Be sure that your written analysis addresses each point, at a minimum. You may also want to read the Outcome Measures, Issues, and Opportunities Scoring Guide and
Guiding Questions: Outcome Measures, Issues, and Opportunities [DOCX] to better understand how each criterion will be assessed. Drafting the Report
· Analyze organizational functions, processes, and behaviors in high-performing health care organizations or practice settings.
· Determine how organizational functions, processes, and behaviors affect outcom
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