Class 3 Redo Assessment 1

Teacher Comment: I appreciate your efforts here in identifying the factors that lead to a specific patient-risk concern with med errors. This can be expanded upon for a higher performance score. While you provided some basic details of a risk concern, a more thorough description is needed to achieve a higher performance level here. Are there authors you might cite, who can provide supporting evidence from the literature for some of your observations? If you have any questions, please let me know. Thanks!

Teacher Comment: Thank you for identifying an evidence-based and best practice solution, however, a greater explanation of the strategies is required along with a connection med errors and how cost is impacted. Parts of this section were unclear due to lack of citations to support your discussion. For a higher performance level, be sure to support your discussion with relevant literature.

Teacher Comment: You identified how nurses can help with coordinating care to increase patient safety and reduce costs; however, a further explanation was required with examples of how a medication administration safety issue could be addressed with cost savings being impacted. Please review the grading rubric criteria to identify missing information. 

Teacher Comment: You broadly identified the stakeholders in the paper; however, they were not named, explicitly rather it was inferred. You wrote that patients on surgical units require special attention but did not explain how. This would have been helpful for the reader to understand who the specific stakeholders were this was not explained. A deeper discussion on how their role impacts the ability to drive and change policy in which quality and safety enhancements to reduce med errors can be delivered was unclear. The next step would be to review the scoring guide to see what information was not addressed and to be sure to address all areas thoroughly on future submissions.

Teacher Comment: I like that I could follow your main theme, however there were many grammatical errors and incomplete sentences, such as the second line after initiating an QI process there should be evacuated over time to assess its suitability. The sentence is not clear about its meaning or purpose. The next statement states there is a need for full integration but the reader hasn't been told what integration is or its purpose here. I recommend careful proof-reading before submitting for a grade.