Quality, Safety, and Cost Considerations

COMPETENCY 1

Transform processes to improve quality, enhance patient safety, and reduce the cost of care.

CRITERION

Explain how a patient, family, or population problem impacts the quality of care, patient safety, and costs to the system and individual.

Your result: Distinguished

Distinguished

Provides a convincing explanation of how a patient, family, or population problem impacts the quality of care, patient safety, and costs to the system and individual by providing specific individual, family, or population examples of such impacts.

Proficient

Explains how a patient, family, or population problem impacts the quality of care, patient safety, and costs to the system and individual.

Basic

Attempts to describe the impact of a patient, family, or population problem on the quality of care, patient safety, and costs to the system and individual.

Non-Performance

Does not describe the impact of a patient, family, or population problem on the quality of care, patient safety, and costs to the system and individual.

Faculty Comments:

I liked that you gave a full explanation of how your selected problem of opioid use impacts the quality of care, patient safety, and costs to the system and individual. I especially liked that you included real-world examples of such impacts in this section. This helped to draw your reader into the problem.

CRITERION

Propose strategies to improve the quality of care, enhance patient safety, and reduce costs to the system and individual and document the practicum hours spent with these individuals or group in the CORE ELMS Volunteer Experience Form.

Your result: Basic

Distinguished

Proposes strategies, supported by examples, to improve the quality of care, enhance patient safety, and reduce costs to the system and individual. Exhibits clear insight into the effectiveness of the strategies and available sources of relevant benchmark data. Documents the practicum hours spent with these individuals or group in the CORE ELMS Volunteer Experience Form

Proficient

Proposes strategies to improve the quality of care, enhance patient safety, and reduce costs to the system and individual and documents the practicum hours spent with these individuals or group in the CORE ELMS Volunteer Experience Form.

Basic

Proposes leadership strategies that are not clearly related to care quality, patient safety, or cost reduction, or which are unlikely to significantly improve outcomes, and/or does not document practicum hours in the CORE ELMS Volunteer Experience Form.

Non-Performance

Does not propose strategies to improve the quality of care, enhance patient safety, and reduce costs to the system and individual, and does not document practicum hours in the CORE ELMS Volunteer Experience Form.

Faculty Comments:

I see that you identified a possible strategy. A more in-depth explanation of how this strategy can improve health outcomes is needed. What does the literature say about the benefits of this strategy to your specific plan proposal?

COMPETENCY 2

Analyze the impact of health policy on quality and cost of care.

CRITERION

Explain how state board nursing practice standards and/or organizational or governmental policies can affect a patient, family, or population problem�s impact on the quality of care, patient safety, and costs to the system and individual.

Your result: Basic

Distinguished

Provides an explanation�based on a perceptive and coherent synthesis of current literature�of how state board nursing practice standards and/or organizational or governmental policies can affect a patient, family, or population problem�s impact on the quality of care, patient safety, and costs to the system and individual. Provides clear insight into how policy affects nursing scope of practice and will inform and guide an intervention.

Proficient

Explains how state board nursing practice standards and/or organizational or governmental policies can affect a patient, family, or population problem�s impact on the quality of care, patient safety, and costs to the system and individual.

Basic

Attempts to explain state board nursing practice standards and/or organizational or governmental policies that could affect a patient, family, or population problem�s impact on the quality of care, patient safety, and costs to the system and individual.

Non-Performance

Does not identify state board nursing practice standards and/or organizational or governmental policies that could affect a patient, family, or population problem�s impact on the quality of care, patient safety, and costs to the system and individual.

Faculty Comments:

I liked that you attempted to explain how your own state�s board of nursing practice and/or organization or governmental policies can affect a patient, family, or population problem�s impact on the quality of care, patient safety, and costs to the system and individual but this lacked clarity due to lack of a discussion about how this is relevant to the problem of OUD. Are there authors you could cite who have discussed the benefits of incorporating nursing practice standards into this project? This is needed for a higher performance score.

COMPETENCY 3

Integrate professional standards and values into practice.

CRITERION

Use paraphrasing and summarization to represent ideas from external sources.

Your result: Basic

Distinguished

Uses concise paraphrasing or summarization to accurately represent ideas from external sources. Exhibits an insightful interpretation and synthesis of credible sources.

Proficient

Uses paraphrasing and summarization to represent ideas from external sources.

Basic

Paraphrasing or summarization is awkward, inaccurate, or borders on plagiarism.

Non-Performance

Incorporates plagiarized information.

Faculty Comments:

Your paraphrasing or summarization is awkward, inaccurate, or borders on plagiarism. Please remember to cite your references accurately.

CRITERION

Apply APA style and formatting to scholarly writing.

Your result: Basic

Distinguished

Applies APA style and formatting to scholarly writing. Exhibits strict and nearly flawless adherence to stylistic conventions, document structure, and source attributions.

Proficient

Applies APA style and formatting to scholarly writing.

Basic

Applies APA style and formatting to scholarly writing incorrectly and/or inconsistently, detracting noticeably from good scholarship.

Non-Performance

Does not apply APA style and formatting to scholarly writing.

Faculty Comments:

I like that your writing was logical. Much of your paper was unclear and hard to follow due to many grammar and APA formatting errors. I hope you will use Smarthinking tools to help you with this. The link is here: https://campus.capella.edu/web/tutoring/home?deepLink=true

I recommend that you review the APA Formatting Tutorial also. The link is here: http://www.apastyle.org/learn/tutorials/basics-tutorial.aspx