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Explain the process for completing a comprehensive health assessment.

Conduct a health assessment of a population of your choice. Explain the process and summarize the results.  By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:   Competency 1: Health Assessment – Conduct comprehensive and focused assessments of health and illness parameters in individuals, groups, and vulnerable […]

Describe strategies to overcome specific organizational barriers to change, based on your knowledge of the organization.

Write 8-10 pages in which you identify a major patient-safety issue within your own organization and use evidence-based best practices and technology to develop a plan to improve the safety issue.Quality improvement and patient safety are central to the nursing leadership role.  By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course […]

Describe changes that could be made that would improve compliance with the measure.

Investigate your organization’s compliance rate with one specific core measure of your choice and write a 2-3-page (maximum) executive summary analyzing the financial and regulatory impact of organizational compliance with your chosen measure. Include recommendations for improving performance on the measure.  In order to promote safe, caring, patient-centered environments, nurse leaders must both conceptually understand […]