Assignment: National Patient Safety Goal

Assignment: National Patient Safety Goal

Outcome 4: Implement National Patient Safety Goals and safe nursing practice in the clinical setting.

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This assignment will be done in the classroom with discussion to follow.

Read the following chapter from the book, “Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses” and provide a brief overview.

List the National Patient Safety Goals from the Joint Commission’s website appropriate to the long-term care environment and what precautions should the nurse take relative to EACH safety goal?

From the book, “Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses,” select one other chapter to read and provide a brief overview. Apply the main concepts to the long-term care facility environment. This could be a situation from work or from school or a personal experience. Assignment: National Patient Safety Goal

Select a Speak Up brochure developed by The Joint Commission. Follow this link to the proper website: https://www.jointcommission.org/topics/speak_up_campaigns.aspx and answer the following questions.
1. Identify the brochure you chose and the demographic it applies to. Who else can utilize this information?

Discuss how current nursing or healthcare-related research supports the information presented in the brochure.

Title	Assignment: National Patient Safety Goal
	Put X in box to correspond with the SLO (s)		Put X in box to correspond with the Competency (s)	Knowledge/Practice/Ethical Comportment
	Put X in box to correspond with the SLO (s)		Put X in box to correspond with the Competency (s)	K	P	E
Student Learning Outcome(s)	Patient-Centered Care		Communication Skills
			Nursing Process
			Learning Needs
	Technology		Documentation
	Technology		Informatics
	Nursing Judgment		Prioritization
	Nursing Judgment		Nursing Judgment
	Professionalism		Professionalism
	Professionalism		Ethical/Legal. Assignment: National Patient Safety Goal
	Quality Improvement		Patient Care Concerns
	Quality Improvement		Systems
	Safety	x	Patient Complications
	Safety	x	Safe Nursing	x	x	x
	Teamwork/Collaboration		Communication
	Teamwork/Collaboration		Conflict Recognition
	Managing Care		Managing Care of the Individual Patient
	Managing Care		Assign/Monitor

Where should this assignment be used:
Classroom	X
Clinical Setting	X
Independent Study	X
Online/Web Based	X
Skills Lab
Simulation

Revised from Linda Caputi © (What type of assignment is this?)
Patient Care Assignment	Non-Patient Care Assignments
Patient Care The assignments are related to the student while providing patient care in the clinical setting. Example: Concept mapping care for one or multiple patients.	Thinking Focused Assignments encourages critical thinking and clinical reasoning and teaches students to think like a nurse.	Patient Focused The student focuses on specific aspects of patient care such as safety, falls, diabetes, other diseases, etc.	Systems Focused Assignments help the student understand the clinical world, the nurse’s work therein, and the effect of the system on the nurse and the patient. Example: How the system completes medication administration from order to delivery to patient. Assignment: National Patient Safety Goal
	x	x	x

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