Select one of the three scenarios:
Scenario 1: Patient Identification Error,
Scenario 2: Medication Error, or
Scenario 3: HIPAA/Privacy Violation),
conduct research, and complete the assignment directly.
Week 2 Assignment –
For the scenario, you selected, write a 5–7-page recommendation for leadership that describes the safety threat, the importance of addressing the threat, and your recommendations for resolving it. Be sure to include all of the following in your paper and to address all of the points:
Apply the health care safety imperative to a patient safety issue.
Identify the issue and what the potential safety threat is in your scenario selected.
Describe an issue of your choosing that occurs with sufficient detail so that leadership has a clear understanding of what happened.
Identify the implications of not addressing the threat.
Evaluate the risk to the patients, employees, and organization, if patient safety threats are not addressed.
What does the health care safety importance say about the issue and how does it apply?
Which regulatory agencies have oversight about the issue?
Analyze regulatory agencies’ role and impact on organizations’ patient safety programs.
What specifically do the regulations state about the issue? For example, you might consider the Joint Commission’s NPSGs.
What impact do regulatory agencies have on organizations’ patient safety programs?
How do health care organizations incorporate regulatory agencies’ guidance when establishing reporting and investigation best practices?
What are the potential consequences to the patients, employees, and organization, if the hospital fails to correct the threat?
Analyze the patient safety officer’s role in implementing patient safety plans.
Explain the role patient safety officers assume in implementing patient safety plans in health care organizations.
Clarify your responsibility and role as the patient safety officer in this specific instance.
Provide one example from the literature to illustrate your points.
Recommend evidence-based best practice tools and techniques to reduce or eliminate patient safety threats.
Describe your five-point plan (five ways to avoid this error from occurring) to reduce or eliminate this patient safety threat.
What best practice tools or techniques do your plan include to reduce or eliminate these types of errors? Consider processes for responding, rounding, detecting, incident reporting, operational considerations, et cetera.
Note: Health care is an evidence-based field. Your senior leaders will want to know the sources of your information, so be sure to include at least two peer-reviewed sources. Your citations and references do need to conform to current APA guidelines.
Additional Requirements
Your assignment should also meet the following requirements:
Template: Use the Assignment 1 template (provided in the resources) to complete this assignment.
Length: 5–7 double-spaced pages, not including title and reference pages.
Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
APA format: Your submission, including the body, citations, and title and references pages need to conform to current APA format and style guidelines. Do make sure that it is clear, persuasive, organized, and well written, without grammatical, punctuation, or spelling errors. You also must cite your sources according to current APA guidelines.
Reference
Johnson, J. K., Haskell, H. W., & Barach, P. R. (2016). Case studies in patient safety. Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.
Resources
Addressing a Patient Safety Issue Scoring Guide.
APA Module.
APA Style and Format.
APA Style Paper Tutorial [DOCX].
Health Care Administration Undergraduate Library Research Guide.
Assignment 1 Template [DOC].
Vila Health: Patient Safety.
