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COMPETENCY 1

Analyze the elements of a successful quality improvement initiative.

CRITERION

Explain evidence-based and best-practice solutions to improve patient safety focusing on medication administration and reducing costs.

Your result: Proficient

Distinguished

Explains evidence-based and best practice solutions to improve patient safety focusing on medication administration and reducing costs. Makes explicit reference to scholarly or professional resources to support explanation.

Proficient

Explains evidence-based and best-practice solutions to improve patient safety focusing on medication administration and reducing costs.

Basic

Identifies evidence-based and best-practice solutions to improve patient safety focusing on medication administration and reducing costs.

Non-Performance

Does not identify evidence-based and best-practice solutions to improve patient safety focusing on medication administration and reducing costs.

Faculty Comments:

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COMPETENCY 2

Analyze factors that lead to patient safety risks.

CRITERION

Explain factors leading to a specific patient-safety risk focusing on medication administration.

Your result: Proficient

Distinguished

Explains factors leading to a specific patient-safety risk focusing on medication administration. Makes reference to specific data, evidence, or standards illustrate the safety risk.

Proficient

Explains factors leading to a specific patient-safety risk focusing on medication administration.

Basic

Identifies factors leading to a specific patient-safety risk focusing on medication administration.

Non-Performance

Does not identify factors leading to a specific patient-safety risk focusing on medication administration.

Faculty Comments:

You did a great job identifying the factors leading up to the safety concern of issues with medication errors. You have included many great data points. Excellent work providing in-text citations of appropriate resources to support your findings. In order to achieve a higher performance score, make sure to include a cost analysis to coincide with your analysis of the concern.

COMPETENCY 3

Explain the nurse's role in coordinating care to enhance quality and reduce costs.

CRITERION

Explain how nurses can help coordinate care to increase patient safety with medication administration and reduce costs.

Your result: Proficient

Distinguished

Explains how nurses can help coordinate care to increase patient safety with medication administration and reduce costs, providing specific examples related to a patient safety risk.

Proficient

Explains how nurses can help coordinate care to increase patient safety with medication administration and reduce costs.

Basic

Identifies how nurses can help coordinate care to increase patient safety with medication administration and reduce costs.

Non-Performance

Does not identify how nurses can help coordinate care to increase patient safety with medication administration and reduce costs.

Faculty Comments:

You identified how nurses can help with coordinating care to increase patient safety; however, a further explanation was required with examples of how a safety issue could be addressed with cost savings being impacted. I know we as nurses don't like to think about the cost, but for this criteria a better explanation is needed.  Please review the grading rubric criteria to identify missing information.

CRITERION

Identify stakeholders with whom nurses would need to coordinate to drive quality and safety enhancements with medication administration.

Your result: Proficient

Distinguished

Identifies stakeholders with whom nurses would need to coordinate to drive quality and safety enhancements with medication administration, noting the relevance and potential importance of the stakeholders.

Proficient

Identifies stakeholders with whom nurses would need to coordinate to drive quality and safety enhancements with medication administration.

Basic

Identifies stakeholders, but their relevance to collaboration with nurses or their ability to drive quality and safety enhancements with medication administration is unclear.

Non-Performance

Does not identify stakeholders with whom nurses would need to coordinate to drive quality and safety enhancements with medication administration.

Faculty Comments:

I appreciated your identification of the stakeholders that nurses need to communicate and collaboration with to implement quality and safety enhancements.  To achieve a higher performance score, you could have provided a more detailed explanation of the relevance and importance of involving the stakeholders of the organization and their role. How are these stakeholders going to assist with the plan for improvement? Have you missed anyone that may be able to assist with this safety issue?

COMPETENCY 4

Apply professional, scholarly, evidence-based strategies to communicate in a manner that supports safe and effective patient care.

CRITERION

Organize content so ideas flow logically with smooth transitions; contains few errors in grammar or punctuation, word choice, and spelling.

Your result: Distinguished

Distinguished

Organizes content with a clear purpose. Content flows logically with smooth transitions using coherent paragraphs, correct grammar or punctuation, word choice, and free of spelling errors.

Proficient

Organizes content so ideas flow logically with smooth transitions; contains few errors in grammar or punctuation, word choice, and spelling.

Basic

Organizes content with some logical flow and smooth transitions. Contain errors in grammar or punctuation, word choice, and spelling.

Non-Performance

Does not organize content for ideas. Lacks logical flow and smooth transitions.

Faculty Comments:

What an excellently written scholarly paper. You have a very nice writing style that flows well and it easy to follow. Well done!

CRITERION

Apply APA formatting to in-text citations and references exhibiting nearly flawless adherence to APA format.

Your result: Proficient

Distinguished

Exhibits strict and flawless adherence to APA formatting of headings, in-text citations, and references. Quotes and paraphrases correctly.

Proficient

Applies APA formatting to in-text citations and references exhibiting nearly flawless adherence to APA format.

Basic

Applies APA formatting to in-text citations, headings and references incorrectly or inconsistently, detracting noticeably from the content. Inconsistently uses headings, quotes or paraphrasing.

Non-Performance

Does not apply APA formatting to headings, in-text citations, and references. Does not use quotes or paraphrase correctly.

Faculty Comments:

Nice job overall with APA formatting.  There were just a few items to improve upon, such as making sure to cite while you write - this is needed whenever you present your thoughts - you need to support it with evidence, it is not what you state or feel, but what the evidence supports. Thank you for all your effort and time. Well done! If you would want to check it out, hereâ��s a link to APA information: http://www.apastyle.org/learn/tutorials/basics-tutorial.aspx