Safety Score Improvement Plan
Assessment InstructionsPreparation
Refer to the Capella library and the Internet for supplemental resources to help you complete this assessment, a safety score improvement plan.
Consider the hospital-acquired conditions that are not reimbursed for under Medicare/Medicaid. Among these conditions are specific safety issues such as infections, falls, medication errors, and other safety concerns that could have been prevented or alleviated with the use of evidence-based guidelines. Hospital Safety Score, an independent nonprofit organization, uses national performance measures to determine the safety score for hospitals in the United States. The Hospital Safety Score Web site and other online resources provide hospital safety scores to the public.
Read the scenario below:
Scenario
As the manager of a unit, you have been advised by the patient safety office of an alarming increase in the hospital safety score for your unit. This is a very serious public relations matter because patient safety data is public information. It is also a financial crisis because the organization stands to lose a significant amount of reimbursement money from Medicare and Medicaid unless the source of the problem can be identified and corrected. You are required to submit a safety score improvement plan to the organization’s leadership and the patient safety office.
Select a specific patient safety goal that has been identified by an organization, or one that is widely regarded in the nursing profession as relevant to quality patient care delivery, such as patient falls, infection rates, catheter-induced urinary infections, IV infections, et cetera.
Deliverable: Safety Score Improvement Plan
Develop a 3–5 page safety score improvement plan.•Identify the health care setting and nursing unit of your choice in the title of the mitigation plan. For example, "Safety Score Improvement Plan for XYZ Rehabilitation Center."•You may choose to use information on a patient safety issue for the organization in which you currently work, or search for information from a setting you are familiar with, perhaps from your clinical work. ?Demonstrate systems theory and systems thinking as you develop your recommendations.
Organize your report with these headings:
Study of Factors•Identify a patient safety issue.•Describe the influence of nursing leadership in driving the needed changes.•Apply systems thinking to explain how current policies and procedures may affect a safety issue.
Recommendations•Recommend an evidence-based strategy to improve the safety issue.•Explain a strategy to collect information about the safety concern. ?How would you determine the sources of the problem?
•Explain a plan to implement a recommendation and monitor outcomes. ?What quality indicators will you use??How will you monitor outcomes??Will policies or procedures need to be changed??Will nursing staff need training??What tools will you need to do this?
Additional Requirements•Written communication: Written communication should be free of errors that detract from the overall message.•APA formatting: Resources and in-text citations should be formatted according to current APA style and formatting.•Length: The plan should be 3–5 pages.•Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point, double-spaced.•Number of resources: Use a minimum of three peer-reviewed resources.

By now, we have discussed a number of key issues with media (mis)representations, and the assigned readings provide numerous examples of avenues for critical analysis.  Like it or not, there is practically an endless supply of more recent examples just waiting to be unpacked.  This is where you come in.

      First, select a piece of online media contentit could be entertainment, advertising, or a similarly fictional representation.  (Note: It could be published in audio, video, and/or textual format. Regardless, DO NOT select a news article, documentary, or other content that is based on real-life events.)  Then, write a brief, critical analysis of the text paying attention to quality of representation as well as numerical representation and centrality of representation.  How were members of different social groups represented?  What forms of (mis)representation did you find?  Are there stereotypes being invoked, or other apparent instances of unequal representation?  How do these representations fit with stereotypes common in our media/society?

After presenting your analysis, reflect on the likely consequences of the representations you identified.  What would you say to critics who might respond by saying its just entertainment, or thats just how the world is?  Remember to ground your analysis in concepts and knowledge from course readings, and be sure to include examples as well as link to the content you analyze so the reader can follow along.