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NR533 Quality Improvement and Patient Safety

Week 1 Discussion

Transparent Health: Lewis Blackman Story

In this first of four discussion boards, you will watch the video titled, "Transparent Health – Lewis Blackman Story. In this video, two issues in health care will be addressed: (1) prevention of medical errors and (2) how we the care givers respond when our care has caused harm to one of our patients.

Solidlinemedia. (23014, April). The Lewis Blackman story. Youtube.com. (1 hour)

Questions:

After viewing this video, you and your nurse colleagues are to discuss the following:

How did the health care system fail Lewis and his family?

What can we, as nurse leaders, learn from the Lewis Blackman Story?

As a health care leader, describe strategies/approaches to effectively address medical errors as described in this story about Lewis Blackman, e.g. teamwork and communication.

You must reply with your initial forum post (using APA Style Guide as needed) before you will see any other students work. For participation and grading details refer to the MSN Grading Guidelines and Rubrics and to the Syllabus for point value of discussions.

All discussions open on Monday and the first post is due by Wednesday, 11:55 PM Eastern Time. Discussions close on the following Monday at 6 AM Eastern Time until the final week. The discussion in the final week closes at 11:55 PM Eastern Time on Sunday (if applicable)

Your "Activity Completion" box will be marked when this discussion is graded. This only indicates that you have received a grade: Please check your gradebook for actual grade.

 

NR533 Quality Improvement and Patient Safety

Week 5 Discussion

Quality Improvement Processes and Approaches, and Quality Tools

The purpose of this discussion board is to provide you and your nurse colleagues with an opportunity to discuss quality improvement processes and approaches, and quality tools.

Questions:

Respond to the following questions.

What is the difference between a quality improvement system and a quality improvement tool? Explain.

Select and compare three of quality tools. What are some of the key similarities and differences among the selected quality tools?

How will you select one of the quality improvement processes and approaches, and implement one or more of the quality tools as described in last week’s presentation for your QI project?

You must reply with your initial forum post (using APA Style Guide as needed) before you will see any other students work. For participation and grading details refer to the MSN Grading Guidelines and Rubrics and to the Syllabus for point value of discussions.

All discussions open on Monday and the first post is due by Wednesday, 11:55 PM Eastern Time. Discussions close on the following Monday at 6 AM Eastern Time until the final week. The discussion in the final week closes at 11:55 PM Eastern Time on Sunday (if applicable)

Your "Activity Completion" box will be marked when this discussion is graded. This only indicates that you have received a grade: Please check your gradebook for actual grade.

 

NR533 Quality Improvement and Patient Safety

Week 7 Discussion

Just Culture: Reporting and Investigating

Question:

The purpose of this discussion board is to provide you and your nurse colleagues with an opportunity to reflect and then discuss with each other:

How to make the reporting of events easy?

How to improve investigating events?

How to encourage reporting for safety?

Use the following four questions to guide the discussion on just culture: reporting and investigating.

How are the people in your healthcare organization treated following an event involving an honest mistake?

How can we, as nurse leaders, ensure people are supported when things go wrong?

How easy is it to report events that compromise safety in your organization?

As nurse leaders, how can we make the reporting of events simple and easy for people?

How well are safety occurrences investigated in your organization?

How can safety investigations be improved?

Does reporting safety occurrences improve safety?

How can nurse leaders ensure the reporting of events make a difference and encourage people to report?

You must reply with your initial forum post (using APA Style Guide as needed) before you will see any other students work. For participation and grading details refer to the MSN Grading Guidelines and Rubrics and to the Syllabus for point value of discussions.

All discussions open on Monday and the first post is due by Wednesday, 11:55 PM Eastern Time. Discussions close on the following Monday at 6 AM Eastern Time until the final week. The discussion in the final week closes at 11:55 PM Eastern Time on Sunday (if applicable) Your "Activity Completion" box will be marked when this discussion is graded. This only indicates that you have received a grade: Please check your gradebook for actual grade.

NR533 Quality Improvement and Patient Safety

Week 9 Discussion

Creating and Sustaining a Culture of Safety

As a follow-up to completing the Self-Assessment Tool, you and your nurse colleagues will share the results of the self-assesment of your respective health care organization by responding to the following questions.

Reviewing the total scores for each category, which two categories received the highest scores and which two categories received the lowest scores?

What are some of the factors that contributed to the category(ies) receiving the highest score(s)?

Based on the results of the Self-Assessment Tool: Culture of Safety Organizational Self-Assessment, what are the challenges of creating and sustaining a culture of safety in your healthcare organization? What are the three priorities moving forward?

You must reply with your initial forum post (using APA Style Guide as needed) before you will see any other students work. For participation and grading details refer to the MSN Grading Guidelines and Rubrics and to the Syllabus for point value of discussions.

All discussions open on Monday and the first post is due by Wednesday, 11:55 PM Eastern Time. Discussions close on the following Monday at 6 AM Eastern Time until the final week. The discussion in the final week closes at 11:55 PM Eastern Time on Sunday (if applicable)

Your "Activity Completion" box will be marked when this discussion is graded. This only indicates that you have received a grade: Please check your gradebook for actual grade.