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.
Demonstration of Proficiency
Competency 1: Analyze the elements of a successful quality improvement initiative.
Analyze usefulness of resources for role group responsible for
implementing quality and safety improvements with medication
administration.
Competency 2: Analyze factors that lead to patient safety risks.
Analyze the value of resources to reduce patient safety risk or improve quality with medication administration.
Competency 3: Identify organizational interventions to promote patient safety.
Identify necessary resources to support the implementation and
sustainability of a safety improvement initiative focusing on medication
administration.
Competency 5: Apply professional, scholarly, evidence-based
strategies to communicate in a manner that supports safe and effective
patient care.
Present reasons and relevant situations for the resource tool kit to be used by its target audience.
Communicate resource tool kit in a clear, logically structured,
and professional manner that applies current APA style and
formatting.
Professional Context
Nurses are often asked to implement processes, concepts, or
practices—sometimes with little preparatory communication or education.
One way to encourage sustainability of quality and process improvements
is to assemble an accessible, user-friendly tool kit for knowledge
and
process documentation. Creating a resource repository or tool kit is
also an excellent way to follow up an educational or in-service session,
as it can help to reinforce attendees’ new knowledge as well as the
understanding of its value. By practicing creating a simple online tool
kit,
you can develop valuable technology skills to improve your
competence and efficacy. This technology is easy to use, and resources
are
available to guide you.
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.
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.
Identify necessary resources to support the implementation and
continued sustainability of a safety improvement initiative pertaining
to medication administration.
Analyze the usefulness of resources to the role group responsible
for implementing quality and safety improvements focusing on medication
administration.
Analyze the value of resources to reduce patient safety risk related to medication administration.
Present reasons and relevant situations for use of resource tool kit by its target audience.
Communicate in a clear, logically structured, and professional manner that applies current APA style and formatting.
Example Assessment: You may use the following
example to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the
scoring guide would look like but keep in mind that your tool kit will focus on promoting safety with medication administration.
Note that you do not have to submit your bibliography in addition to
the Google Site; the example bibliography is merely for your reference.
Assessment 4 Example [PDF].
To submit your online tool kit assessment, paste the link to your Google Site in the assessment submission box.
Example Google Site: You may use the example Google Site, Resources for Safety and Improvement Measures in Geropsychiatric Care, to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like for this assessment but keep in mind that your tool kit will focus on promoting safety with medication administration.
Note: If you experience technical or other challenges in completing this assessment, please contact your faculty member.
Additional Requirements
APA formatting: References and citations are formatted according to current APA style
