17 Aug Explain how nurses can help coordinate care to increase patient safety and reduce costs.
Part 1: Articles/scholarly articles (assignment is about falls in the nursing home)
Two pieces of peer-reviewed scholarly evidence or best practices from professional organization:
For each resource you find, address the following:
Summarize the resource in one or two sentences.
Explain in one or two sentences how the evidence or practices from the resource pertains to your patient safety topic.
Briefly discuss if the evidence or practices from the resource could help reduce costs.
Part 2: Paper The purpose of this assignment is to better understand the role of the baccalaureate-prepared nurse in enhancing quality improvement (QI) measures to address patient safety risk at a health care setting (falls in nursing homes)
Instructions:
identify a quality improvement (QI) initiative in your health care setting
Be sure that your plan addresses the following:
Explain factors leading to a specific patient safety risk.
Explain evidence-based and best-practice solutions to improve patient safety related to a specific patient-safety risk and reduce costs.
Explain how nurses can help coordinate care to increase patient safety and reduce costs.
Identify stakeholders with whom nurses would need to coordinate to drive safety enhancements.
