The Wrong MedicationAssignment The local hospital had an incident involving the wrong medication administered to a patient. You have been asked to perform a root cause anal

IHP 430 Module One Short Paper Guidelines and Rubric

Overview: In this short paper, you will use a root cause analysis to determine what caused a patient to receive the wrong medication, what should be done about this, and how this type of error could be prevented in the future. Prompt: The local hospital had an incident involving the wrong medication administered to a patient. You have been asked to perform a root cause analysis. First, you need to discover the event that happened, how it happened, and why it happened. Then in your response, address the following elements:

• Recommend key stakeholders to investigate this case. Why should these stakeholders be involved with the investigation?

• Compare the Five Whys of medication administration. How could addressing these questions help identify the root cause of this problem? • How could medication errors be avoided in the future?

Rubric

Guidelines for Submission: Your paper should be submitted as a one- to two-page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, and at least three sources cited in APA format.

Critical Elements Exemplary (100%) Proficient (80%) Needs Improvement (70%) Not Evident (0%) Value

Stakeholders Meets or exceeds “Proficient” criteria and demonstrates in- depth knowledge of which significance of the stakeholders should be involved in determining the root cause of events

Identifies appropriate stakeholders for determining the root cause with sound rationale

Identifies appropriate stakeholders for determining the root cause but without sound rationale

Does not identify appropriate stakeholders for determining the root cause

30

Use of Five Whys Meets or exceeds “Proficient” criteria and demonstrates in- depth understanding of how the Five Whys could identify the error’s root cause

Explains how addressing each of the questions in the Five Whys could help identify the root cause of the error

Explains how addressing some of the questions in the Five Whys could help identify the root cause of the error, but some steps are missing

Does not explain how addressing the questions in the Five Whys could help identify the root cause of the error

30

Avoidance of Medication Errors

Meets or exceeds “Proficient” criteria by successfully explaining how medication errors could be avoided by showing in-depth knowledge to support assertions

Successfully explains how medication errors could be avoided

Partially explains how medication errors could be avoided

Does not explain how medication errors could be avoided

30

Critical Elements Exemplary (100%) Proficient (80%) Needs Improvement (70%) Not Evident (0%) Value

Articulation of Response

Submission is free of errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, and organization and is presented in a professional and easy-to-read format

Submission has no major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization

Submission has major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that negatively impact readability and articulation of main ideas

Submission has critical errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that prevent understanding of ideas

10

Total 100%