November 5, 2023

For this assessment, you will develop a Word document or an online resource repository of at least 12 annotated professional or scholarly resources that you consider critical for the a

For this assessment, you will develop a Word document or an online resource repository of at least 12 annotated professional or scholarly resources that you consider critical for the audience of your safety improvement plan to understand or implement to ensure the success of the plan

Introduction

Communication in the health care environment consists of an information-sharing experience whether through oral or written messages (Chard & Makary, 2015). As health care organizations and nurses strive to create a culture of safety and quality care, the importance of interprofessional collaboration, the development of tool kits, and the use of wikis become more relevant and vital. In addition to the dissemination of information and evidence-based findings and the development of tool kits, continuous support for and availability of such resources are critical. Among the most popular methods to promote ongoing dialogue and information sharing are blogs, wikis, websites, and social media. Nurses know how to support people in time of need or crisis and how to support one another in the workplace; wikis in particular enable nurses to continue that support beyond the work environment. Here they can be free to share their unique perspectives, educate others, and promote health care wellness at local and global levels (Kaminski, 2016).You are encouraged to complete the Determining the Relevance and Usefulness of Resources activity prior to developing the repository. This activity will help you determine which resources or research will be most relevant to address a particular need. This may be useful as you consider how to explain the purpose and relevance of the resources you are assembling for your tool kit. The activity is for your own practice and self-assessment, and demonstrates course engagement.

References

Chard, R., & Makary, M. A. (2015). Transfer-of-care communication: Nursing best practices.AORN Journal, 102(4), 329–342.Kaminski, J. (2016). Why all nurses can/should be authors. Canadian Journal of Nursing Informatics, 11(4), 1–7.

Professional Context

Nurses are often asked to implement processes, concepts, or practices—sometimes with little preparatory communication or education. One way to encourage sustainability of quality and process improvements is to assemble an accessible, user-friendly tool kit for knowledge and process documentation. Creating a resource repository or tool kit is also an excellent way to follow up an educational or in-service session, as it can help to reinforce attendees' new knowledge as well as the understanding of its value. By practicing creating a simple online tool kit, you can develop valuable technology skills to improve your competence and efficacy. This technology is easy to use, and resources are available to guide you.

Scenario

For this assessment, build on the work done in your first three assessments and create an online tool kit or resource repository that will help the audience of your in-service understand the research behind your safety improvement plan pertaining to a specific patient safety issue and put the plan into action.

instructions

Using Google Sites, assemble an online resource tool kit containing at least 12 annotated resources that you consider critical to the success of your safety improvement initiative. These resources should enable nurses and others to implement and maintain the safety improvement you have developed.It is recommended that you focus on the 3 or 4 most critical categories or themes with respect to your safety improvement initiative. For example, for an initiative that concerns improving workplace safety for practitioners, you might choose broad themes such as general organizational safety and quality best practices; environmental safety and quality risks; individual strategies to improve personal and team safety; and process best practices for reporting and improving environmental safety issues.Following the recommended scheme, you would collect 3 resources on average for each of the 4 categories focusing on a specific patient safety issue. Each resource listing should include the following:

An APA-formatted citation of the resource with a working link.
A description of the information, skills, or tools provided by the resource.
A brief explanation of how the resource can help nurses better understand or implement the safety improvement initiative pertaining to a specific patient safety issue.
A description of how nurses can use this resource and when its use may be appropriate.

Remember that you must make your site "public" so that your faculty can access it. Check out the Google Sites resources for more information.Here is an example entry:

Merret, A., Thomas, P., Stephens, A., Moghabghab, R., & Gruneir, M. (2011). A collaborative approach to fall prevention. Canadian Nurse, 107(8), 24–29.
- This article presents the Geriatric Emergency Management-Falls Intervention Team (GEM-FIT) project. It shows how a collaborative nurse lead project can be implemented and used to improve collaboration and interdisciplinary teamwork, as well as improve the delivery of health care services. This resource is likely more useful to nurses as a resource for strategies and models for assembling and participating in an interdisciplinary team than for specific fall-prevention strategies. It is suggested that this resource be reviewed prior to creating an interdisciplinary team for a collaborative project in a health care setting.
Additionally, be sure that your plan addresses the following, which corresponds to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Please study the scoring guide carefully so you understand what is needed for a distinguished score.
Identify necessary resources to support the implementation and continued sustainability of a safety improvement initiative pertaining to a specific patient safety issue.
Analyze the usefulness of resources to the role group responsible for implementing quality and safety improvements focusing on a specific patient safety issue.
Analyze the value of resources to reduce patient safety risk related to a specific patient safety issue.
Present reasons and relevant situations for use of resource tool kit by its target audience.
Communicate in a clear, logically structured, and professional manner that applies current APA style and formatting.

Example Assessment: You may use the following example to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like but keep in mind that your tool kit will focus on promoting safety with medication administration. Note that you do not have to submit your bibliography in addition to the Google Site; the example bibliography is merely for your reference.

Assessment 4 Example [PDF] Download Assessment 4 Example [PDF].

To submit your online tool kit assessment, paste the link to your Google Site in the assessment submission box.Example Google Site: You may use the example found on the Assessment 4: Google Sitesreading list, Resources for Improved Heparin Infusion Safety, to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like for this assessment but keep in mind that your tool kit will focus on promoting safety with medication administration.Note: If you experience technical or other challenges in completing this assessment, please contact your faculty member.

Competencies Measured

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the course competencies through the following assessment scoring guide criteria:

Competency 1: Analyze the elements of a successful quality improvement initiative.
- Analyze the usefulness of resources to the role group responsible for implementing quality and safety improvements focusing on a specific patient safety issue.
Competency 2: Analyze factors that lead to patient safety risks.
- Analyze the value of resources to reduce patient safety risk related to a specific patient safety issue.
Competency 3: Identify organizational interventions to promote patient safety.
- Identify necessary resources to support the implementation and continued sustainability of a safety improvement initiative pertaining to a specific patient safety issue.
Competency 5: Apply professional, scholarly, evidence-based strategies to communicate in a manner that supports safe and effective patient care.
- Present reasons and relevant situations for resource tool kit to be used by its target audience.
- Communicate resource tool kit in a clear, logically structured, and professional manner that applies current APA style and formatting.

Improvement Plan Tool Kit

Your Name

School of Nursing and Health Sciences, Capella University

NURS-FPX4020: Improving Quality of Care and Patient Safety

Instructor Name

Month, Year

Improvement Plan Tool Kit

This improvement plan tool kit aims to enable nurses to implement and sustain safety

improvement measures in health care settings in a geropsychiatric unit. The tool kit has been

organized into four categories with three annotated sources each. The categories are as follows:

general organizational safety and quality best practices, environmental safety and quality risks,

staff-led preventive strategies, and best practices for reporting and improving environmental

safety issues.

Annotated Bibliography

General Organizational Safety and Quality Best Practices

Sherwood, G., & Horton-Deutsch, S. (2015). Reflective organizations: On the front lines of

QSEN and reflective practice implementation. Retrieved from https://ebookcentral-

proquest-com.library.capella.edu/lib/capella/detail.action?docID=3440207#

This e-book presents the paradigm shift required for organizations to provide QSEN

(quality and safety education to nurses). It provides readers with the innovative

pedagogical approaches required to change traditional content-based health care

education methods to interactive methods that engage learners. These approaches

include facilitative teaching, visual thinking strategies, creating a presence that is

authentic, and meaningful learning through debriefing. Concrete examples in the

resource demonstrate the application of reflective learning. Additionally, the reflective

questions in the resource guide readers to evaluate their own practice, either

independently or in groups, to implement formal education programs with a focus on

self-improvement. The resource prepares nursing students for advanced competency,

which will help them adopt reflective thinking, develop a safety culture, and therefore

qualitatively improve practices in critical health units such as geropsychiatry units.

Fleiszer, A. R., Semenic, S. E., Ritchie, J. A., Richer, M.-C., & Denis, J.-L. (2016). A unit-level

perspective on the long-term sustainability of a nursing best practice guidelines

program: An embedded multiple case study. International Journal of Nursing Studies,

53, 204–218. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2015.09.004

This article helps analyze the sustainability of a best practice guidelines program

implemented in acute health care settings. The sustainability of the program was

characterized by the following: benefits for patients as the rate of incidence of falls

reduced; routinization of best practices as the team’s adherence to guidelines improved;

and, in the long term, the development of the team’s adaptability to changes in

circumstances that threatened the program. Seven key factors that accounted for the

sustainability of the program were also identified. The source explains how

relationships between the characteristics of sustainability (benefits, routinization, and

development) and the seven key factors contributed toward the sustainability of the

improvement program. This source is valuable for nursing students as it helps them

understand how safety programs can be sustained to ensure the long-term reduction of

the incidence of sentinel events in geropsychiatric units.

Kossaify, A., Hleihel, W., & Lahoud, J.-C. (2017). Team-based efforts to improve quality of

care, the fundamental role of ethics, and the responsibility of health managers:

Monitoring and management strategies to enhance teamwork. Public Health, 153, 91–98.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2017.08.007

This paper discusses the benefits of teamwork in improving the quality of health care. It

presents a review of 33 papers identified after performing a search on PubMed. The paper

discusses the important ingredients of efficient teamwork such as self-awareness and the

individual behavior of team members, the ethical climate within the team, the work

environment and institutional infrastructure, positive moderation from leadership, and

communication and coordination among team members. Effective teamwork can help

reduce the incidence of sentinel events that result from preventable medical errors, which

are often caused by dysfunctional communication among team members. Teamwork is

more reliable and efficient than individual work in high-risk environments such as a

geropsychiatry unit. Although the specific contexts of readers’ practices may be different,

this resource is valuable for nursing administrators and professionals as it discusses the

implementation of values needed for positive teamwork as well as the monitoring and

management of teamwork.

Environmental Safety and Quality Risks

Powell-Cope, G., Quigley, P., Besterman-Dahan, K., Smith, M., Stewart, J., Melillo, C.,

Friedman, Y. (2014). A qualitative understanding of patient falls in inpatient mental

health units. Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, 20(5), 328–339.

https://doi.org/10.1177/1078390314553269

This source mentions a study conducted to analyze falls in geropsychiatric patients. The

study also focused on selling falls prevention in psychiatric units. The risk factors that

lead to the falls were identified by a focus group. The focus group formulated an

improvement plan to reduce the number of falls, and it was found that implementing

infrastructural changes such as the use of geriatric-friendly sanitary ware such as raised

toilet seats helped reduce the rate of incidence of falls. Although all the changes may not

be feasible in a given setup, many of the strategies mentioned in this study could serve as

a starting point for the prevention of falls. The article helps nursing students understand

the challenges that occur in an adult mental health unit and the quality improvement

measures taken to resolve these challenges.

Wong Shee, A., Phillips, B., Hill, K., & Dodd, K. (2014). Feasibility, acceptability, and

effectiveness of an electronic sensor bed/chair alarm in reducing falls in patients with

cognitive impairment in a subacute ward. Journal of Nursing Care Quality, 29(3), 253–

262. https://doi.org/10.1097/NCQ.0000000000000054

This source is a preliminary study conducted to determine the effectiveness of electronic

sensor bed/chair alarms to reduce the occurrence of falls in patients with cognitive

impairment. These alarms can be attached to the patient’s body or to the bed/chair the

patient uses to alert the nursing staff every time the patients move or leave their seat.

Nurses were educated about the alarms and asked to document their observations and

provide feedback. Although effective at preventing falls in patients with cognitive

impairment, the electronic sensors needed improvements such as the elimination of cords

that may be hazardous to patients and the additional provision of alerting nurses through

pagers. This source helps nursing students understand both the effectiveness and the

limitations of electronic sensor alarms in reducing the occurrence of falls.

Chari, S. R., Smith, S., Mudge, A., Black, A. A., Figueiro, M., Ahmed, M., . . . Haines, T. P.

(2016). Feasibility of a stepped wedge cluster RCT and concurrent observational sub-

study to evaluate the effects of modified ward night lighting on inpatient fall rates and

sleep quality: A protocol for a pilot trial. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 2(1).

https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-015-0043-x

Inadequate lighting at night in geropsychiatric wards is one of the important causes of

falls in geropsychiatric units. Psychotropic medications can cause cognitive impairments

and blurring of vision, which can be aggravated by dim lighting in the units. The article

presents a trial pilot study conducted to evaluate the effects of the use of modified night

lighting in inpatient wards to prevent falls. LED lights were installed in the vicinity of the

beds and the toilets, where falls were likely to occur. The study provides valuable insights

that could inform design and refurbishment efforts at geropsychiatric units. An important

limitation of the study is that a stepped wedge, cluster randomized controlled trial has not

yet been applied to test environmental modifications in any setting. However, the

modifications discussed could still be implemented as an important intervention strategy

for preventing falls in older adults with cognitive impairment.

Staff-Led Preventive Strategies

Morgan, L., Flynn, L., Robertson, E., New, S., Forde‐Johnston, C., & McCulloch, P. (2016).

Intentional rounding: A staff‐led quality improvement intervention in the prevention of

patient falls. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 26(1–2), 115–124.

https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.13401

This article highlights an intervention strategy called intentional rounding to reduce the

occurrence of inpatient falls. Intentional rounding is a specific strategy in which nurses

conduct a routine check on patients at certain time intervals based on the needs of the

patient. The rounding was implemented through effective communication and teamwork

among the nursing staff and iterations of plan-do-check-act measures. This proactive

staff-led strategy helped reduce the rate of falls by 50%. This study achieved success

through the combined efforts of the research team that conducted the analysis of the

system to design the rounding format and the frontline nursing staff who conducted the

intentional rounds. Although its sample size was small and not entirely representative, the

study does establish intentional rounding as an effective falls-prevention strategy, which

when implemented with adequate staff engagement and support from leadership

definitively reduces the occurrence of falls.

Moncada, L. V. V., & Mire, G. L. (2017). Preventing falls in older persons. Am Fam Physician,

96(4), 240–247. Retrieved from https://www.aafp.org/afp/2017/0815/p240.pdf

The article posits that a history of falls in older persons is associated with an increased

risk of a future fall. The American Geriatrics Society recommends that older adults aged

65 and above should undergo annual screening for balance impairment and a history of

falls as a preliminary intervention for the prevention of falls. The article also highlights

an algorithm developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The

algorithm suggests assessment and multifactorial interventions to prevent falls in patients

who have had more than two falls and more than one fall-related injury. The

multifactorial interventions include exercise routines that include balance and gait

training, the use of vitamin D supplements with or without calcium based on the

community in which the patients dwell, and the management of psychotropic medication.

These interventions have been known to cause a significant decrease in the rate of falls

http://www.aafp.org/afp/2017/0815/p240.pdf

and can be implemented across all geropsychiatric wards to prevent sentinel events. The

source is authentic and hence can be referred to by nursing students to understand

multifactorial interventions in the prevention of falls.

Isaac, L. M., Buggy, E., Sharma, A., Karberis, A., Maddock, K. M., & Weston, K. M. (2018).

Enhancing hospital care of patients with cognitive impairment. International Journal of

Health Care Quality Assurance, 31(2), 173–186. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJHCQA-11-

2016-0173

This paper evaluates the TOP5 intervention strategy of improving patient care. The

strategy involves engaging with carers of geriatric patients (individuals who are family

members or friends of the patients) to collect characteristic non-clinical information

about patients to personalize care and reduce falls. The carers of patients narrated to the

nursing staff five important and distinct characteristic details such as the patients’ needs

and past emotional experiences. The nursing staff then prepared a customized plan of

care for each patient based on this information. This study reported a significant

reduction in falls and qualitatively improved care. The study enables nursing students to

meaningfully involve the carers of cognitively impaired patients and reduce the incidence

of falls.

Best Practices for Reporting and Improving Environmental Safety Issues

Tan, A. K. (2015). Emphasizing caring components in nurse-patient-nurse bedside reporting.

International Journal of Caring Sciences, 8(1), 188–193. Retrieved from

https://library.capella.edu/login?qurl=https%3A%2F%2Fsearch.proquest.com%2Fdocvie

w%2F1648623547%3Faccountid=27965

This source provides a review of strategies that improve bedside reporting and transfer of

duties after a change of shift among nursing staff. The source also emphasizes team

engagement that can help reduce the incidence of sentinel events, especially in health

care units such as geropsychiatry units. Bedside reporting is a vital concern in

geropsychiatric units as patients are prone to behavioral changes and unpredictable

behavior may affect other patients in the unit. During a shift change, the nursing staff can

alert the incoming staff about the condition of such patients to proactively prepare the

staff to address any forthcoming issue. Barriers to bedside reporting were also analyzed,

and barriers perceived by patients and those perceived by nurses were identified. These

barriers can be eliminated through open communication and by educating the nursing

staff. The article provides a valuable discussion of factors that influence bedside

reporting such as patient-centered care philosophy, guidelines of the Joint Commission

Institute, demand for patient participation in making health care decisions, and the

shortcomings of traditional handover practices.

Stergiopoulos, S., Brown, C. A., Felix, T., Grampp, G., & Getz, K. A. (2016). A survey of

adverse event reporting practices among US healthcare professionals. Drug Safety,

39(11), 1117–1127. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40264-016-0455-4

This article highlights the severity of underreporting of adverse drug events. An adverse

drug event is defined by the World Health Organization as “a response to a medicine

which is noxious and unintended, and which occurs at doses normally used in man.”

Adverse drug events are estimated to cause 7,000 deaths across health care settings in the

United States each year. It is also said that half of these adverse drug events result from

preventable medication errors. The article also identifies factors that lead to the

underreporting of the adverse drug events such as lack of training among health care

professionals and standardized reporting processes. Underreporting of adverse drug

events can be a critical problem, especially in health care units such as geropsychiatry

units. Individual patients may react differently to psychotropic drugs; reactions may

include overdoses or allergic reactions. These reactions need to be monitored closely and

reported efficiently to avoid complications including falls. Nursing students can

understand the importance of reporting adverse drug events through this source.

Lozito, M., Whiteman, K., Swanson-Biearman, B., Barkhymer, M., & Stephens, K. (2018).

Good catch campaign: Improving the perioperative culture of safety. AORN Journal,

107(6), 705–714. https://doi.org/10.1002/aorn.12148

This article provides evidence-based results to show that the culture of safety in a

perioperative unit was improved after implementing the good catch campaign. Good

catch is the ability of nursing staff to point out mistakes and report them to avoid sentinel

events. The campaign described in the article involves implementing a standardized

electronic reporting system and debriefing process. The nursing staff discusses the plan

of care for each patient at the end of the day during debriefing. This helps the nursing

staff note characteristic risks involved with each patient and provide better care. Training

nursing staff to implement the good catch campaign in health care units such as

geropsychiatry units should enable the effective reporting of factors that could cause falls

with a view to avoid them. This source enables nursing students to implement electronic

reporting systems to report good catches and thereby reduce falls.