Analyzing a Patient Care Quality and Safety Gap in Nursing
Practice
Assignment Instructions:
Analyze evidence from the literature and course materials, synthesize the information,
and develop a 3- to 4-page scholarly response, applying the following criteria:
• Identify a patient care quality or safety gap in your selected healthcare organization.
• Describe the patient care delivery gap or problem in nursing practice.
• Include metrics or objective data and supporting information to substantiate this gap in
nursing practice.
• Address the type of indicator, such as structural, process, or outcomes.
• Indicate the type of quality indicator, such as rate-based, prevention, patient safety, or
nursing sensitive indicator.
• Describe whether this quality indicator is risk adjusted. Why or why not?
• How did the selected organization establish their target or benchmark metrics for this
quality indicator? Be specific.
• Analyze the impact of not meeting this quality indicator to:
- Health equity and diversity
- Patient and staff engagement
- Human and financial to patients, the organization, or the healthcare system
• Analyze two (2) journal articles, clinical guidelines, or professional practice
, organization position statement that supports best practices related to the identified gap in
nursing practice.
Practice
Assignment Instructions:
Analyze evidence from the literature and course materials, synthesize the information,
and develop a 3- to 4-page scholarly response, applying the following criteria:
• Identify a patient care quality or safety gap in your selected healthcare organization.
• Describe the patient care delivery gap or problem in nursing practice.
• Include metrics or objective data and supporting information to substantiate this gap in
nursing practice.
• Address the type of indicator, such as structural, process, or outcomes.
• Indicate the type of quality indicator, such as rate-based, prevention, patient safety, or
nursing sensitive indicator.
• Describe whether this quality indicator is risk adjusted. Why or why not?
• How did the selected organization establish their target or benchmark metrics for this
quality indicator? Be specific.
• Analyze the impact of not meeting this quality indicator to:
- Health equity and diversity
- Patient and staff engagement
- Human and financial to patients, the organization, or the healthcare system
• Analyze two (2) journal articles, clinical guidelines, or professional practice
, organization position statement that supports best practices related to the identified gap in
nursing practice.
