Root-Cause Analysis and Safety Improvement Plan
COMPETENCY 1
Analyze the elements of a successful quality improvement initiative.
CRITERION
Apply evidence-based and best-practice strategies to address the safety issue or sentinel event pertaining to medication administration.
Your result: Proficient
Distinguished
Applies evidence-based and best-practice strategies to address the safety issue or sentinel event pertaining to medication administration, detailing how the strategies will address the safety issue or sentinel event pertaining to medication administration.
Proficient
Applies evidence-based and best-practice strategies to address the safety issue or sentinel event pertaining to medication administration.
Basic
Describes evidence-based and best-practice strategies but their relevance to the safety issue or sentinel event pertaining to medication administration is unclear.
Non-Performance
Does not describe evidence-based and best-practice strategies pertaining to medication administration.
Faculty Comments:
Good work incorporating evidence-based findings to support and address the patient safety issue of medication errors. To reach a higher performance level, you would have needed to dig deeper and listed specific strategies that could be used to address the patient safety issue.
CRITERION
Create a viable, evidence-based safety improvement plan for safe medication administration.
Your result: Proficient
Distinguished
Creates a viable, evidence-based safety improvement plan for safe medication administration that makes explicit reference to scholarly or professional resources to support the plan.
Proficient
Creates a viable, evidence-based safety improvement plan for safe medication administration.
Basic
Creates a safety improvement plan for safe medication administration that lacks appropriate, convincing evidence of its viability.
Non-Performance
Does not create a viable, evidence-based safety improvement plan for safe medication administration.
Faculty Comments:
You did good with the feasibility of this plan, but in order to reach a higher performance level, you would need to show a clear plan with benchmarks and strategies for success. Also, support your plan with the literature more and prioritize the resources that support such. Good start!
COMPETENCY 2
Analyze factors that lead to patient safety risks.
CRITERION
Analyze the root cause of a patient safety issue or a specific sentinel event pertaining to medication administration in an organization.
Your result: Distinguished
Distinguished
Analyzes the root cause of a patient safety issue or a specific sentinel event pertaining to medication administration in an organization, noting the degree to which various elements contributed to the safety issue or sentinel event pertaining to medication administration.
Proficient
Analyzes the root cause of a patient safety issue or a specific sentinel event pertaining to medication administration in an organization.
Basic
Identifies the root cause of a patient safety issue or a specific sentinel event pertaining to medication administration in an organization.
Non-Performance
Does not identify the root cause of a patient safety issue or a specific sentinel event pertaining to medication administration in an organization.
Faculty Comments:
I appreciate your analysis using a root cause approach to identify a patient safety issue. In addition, you did well with identifying the various causes that contribute to medication administration errors. Are these the types of concerns that you are experiencing where you practice?
COMPETENCY 3
Identify organizational interventions to promote patient safety.
CRITERION
Identify existing organizational resources that could be leveraged to improve a safety improvement plan for safe medication administration.
Your result: Basic
Distinguished
Identifies existing organizational resources that could be leveraged to improve a safety improvement plan for safe medication administration, prioritizing them according to potential impact.
Proficient
Identifies existing organizational resources that could be leveraged to improve a safety improvement plan for safe medication administration.
Basic
Identifies existing organizational resources, but their relevance and usefulness to quality and safety improvement for safe medication administration are unclear.
Non-Performance
Does not identify existing organizational resources that could be leveraged to improve a safety improvement plan for safe medication administration.
Faculty Comments:
You identified some organizational resources, but you will need to be clear as to what resources are available in the organization to assist with improving patient safety. To reach a higher competency level, you needed to relate the resources and their relevance to the safety improvement plan. In addition, you could have prioritized the resources according to the degree of impact they could have on outcomes.
COMPETENCY 4
Apply professional, scholarly, evidence-based strategies to communicate in a manner that supports safe and effective patient care.
CRITERION
Organize content so ideas flow logically with smooth transitions; contains few errors in grammar or punctuation, word choice, and spelling.
Your result: Distinguished
Distinguished
Organizes content with a clear purpose. Content flows logically with smooth transitions using coherent paragraphs, correct grammar or punctuation, word choice, and free of spelling errors.
Proficient
Organizes content so ideas flow logically with smooth transitions; contains few errors in grammar or punctuation, word choice, and spelling.
Basic
Organizes content with some logical flow and smooth transitions. Contain errors in grammar or punctuation, word choice, and spelling.
Non-Performance
Does not organize content for ideas. Lacks logical flow and smooth transitions.
Faculty Comments:
Very nice logical flow of content. There were no errors in grammar/punctuation. I like that your writing is clear and has good grammar, and punctuation.
CRITERION
Apply APA formatting to in-text citations and references exhibiting nearly flawless adherence to APA format.
Your result: Proficient
Distinguished
Exhibits strict and flawless adherence to APA formatting of headings, in-text citations, and references. Quotes and paraphrases correctly.
Proficient
Applies APA formatting to in-text citations and references exhibiting nearly flawless adherence to APA format.
Basic
Applies APA formatting to in-text citations, headings and references incorrectly or inconsistently, detracting noticeably from the content. Inconsistently uses headings, quotes or paraphrasing.
Non-Performance
Does not apply APA formatting to headings, in-text citations, and references. Does not use quotes or paraphrase correctly.
Faculty Comments:
I like that your APA formatting was nearly flawless. There were a few APA inconsistencies. For a higher performance score, I hope you will use Academic writer website: https://academicwriter-apa-org.library.capella.edu/ to help you with this. You may also wish to check out the learner success lab for additional resources: https://campus.capella.edu/school-of-nursing-and-health-sciences/nhs-learner-success-lab
