Demonstration of Proficiency

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

• Competency 1: Analyze the elements of a successful quality improvement initiative.     
  • Apply evidence-based and best-practice strategies to address a safety issue or sentinel event.
  • Create a feasible, evidence-based safety improvement plan.
• Competency 2: Analyze factors that lead to patient safety risks.     
  • Analyze the root cause of a patient safety issue or a specific sentinel event within an organization.
• Competency 3: Identify organizational interventions to promote patient safety.     
  • Identify existing organizational resources that could be leveraged to improve a plan.
• Competency 5: Apply professional, scholarly, evidence-based strategies to communicate in a manner that supports safe and effective patient care.     
  • Communicate in writing that is clear, logical, and professional, with correct grammar and spelling, using current APA style.

Professional Context

Nursing practice is governed by health care policies and procedures as well as state and national regulations developed to prevent problems. It is critical for nurses to participate in gathering and analyzing data to determine causes of patient safety issues, in solving problems, and in implementing quality improvements.

Scenario

For this assessment, you may choose from the following options as the subject of a root-cause analysis and safety improvement plan:

• The specific safety concern identified in your previous assessment.
• The Vila Health: Root-Cause Analysis and Safety Improvement Planning simulation.
• One of the case studies from the previous assessment.
• A personal practice experience in which a sentinel event occurred.

Instructions

The purpose of this assessment is to demonstrate your understanding of and ability to analyze a root cause of a specific safety concern in a health care setting. You will create a plan to improve the safety of patients related to the concern based on the results of your analysis, using the literature and professional best practices as well as the existing resources at your chosen health care setting to provide a rationale for your plan.

Use the Root-Cause Analysis and Improvement Plan Template [DOCX] to help you to stay organized and concise.

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.

• Analyze the root cause of a patient safety issue or a specific sentinel event in an organization.
• Apply evidence-based and best-practice strategies to address the safety issue or sentinel event. 
• Identify organizational resources that could be leveraged to improve your plan. 
• Create a feasible, evidence-based safety improvement plan.
• Communicate in writing that is clear, logical, and professional, with correct grammar and spelling, using current APA style. 

Additional Requirements

• Length of submission: Use the provided template to create a 4–6 page root cause analysis and safety improvement plan. A title page is not required but you must include a reference list as per the template.
• Number of references: Cite a minimum of 3 sources of scholarly or professional evidence that support your findings and considerations. Resources should be no more than 5 years old.
• APA formatting: Format references and citations according to current APA style.

Research suggests that being a good public speaker can help individuals grow their business, advance their career, and form strong collaborations (Tsaousides 2017). However, communicating your ideas clearly and presenting them in public can prove to be a challenge. For this forum, discuss what researchers believe are the top reasons for public speaking anxiety or fear. Determine if any of these reasons are applicable to you and what would be the best remedy to overcome these fears.

Use APA format

Competency

Evaluate human resources strategies, practices, and tactics for achieving optimal workforce performance within the healthcare field.

Scenario

Wynn Regional Medical Center (WRMC) recently received a letter of resignation from the Human Resources Director. This is the second HR Director who has resigned in the last year. The HR Department has been in disarray due to the departures and many policies have not been implemented. Some positions have been left vacant for months due to a lack of knowledge about what sort of skill sets are needed to succeed in those roles.

Instructions

As the newly hired Vice President of Human Resources, the CEO of WRMC has asked you to develop a written hiring proposal that includes information on recruiting, training, and succession planning for the new HR Director. The proposal should be a Word document and address the following:

• Recruitment
  • How do you plan on finding a qualified HR Director? Where will you advertise the position? What are you looking for in a qualified candidate?
• Training
  • When you select the best applicant, how will you train him or her? Who will train them? How long will they train? What are the top five items that he or she will need to be trained on?
• Succession
  • How will you ensure that the department is prepared if this HR Director resigns? Who will serve in the HR Director capacity on an interim basis?

Resources

If you need writing assistance, see the Rasmussen College Writing Guide.

Grading Rubric

1. Clear and thorough strategy to identify a qualified human resources director.Includes comprehensive descriptions with multiple supporting examples for each of the sub-bullet questions.

2. Clear and thorough training plan for the selected candidate. Includes comprehensive descriptions with multiple supporting examples for each of the sub-bullet questions.

3. Clear and thorough description of succession planning.. Includes comprehensive descriptions with multiple supporting examples for each of the sub-bullet questions.

Preview of Module Two and Assignment.

https://rasmussen.webex.com/recordingservice/sites/rasmussen/recording/playback/6a81319e46494835a278fa6f89b44d9

week two of the quarter.  I hope you are all doing well.  Below is the link for SHRM.  I discussed this HR organization within the Week 1 live session on Friday. You will find the resources on this website extremely helpful:

https://www.shrm.org/hr-today/public-policy/hr-public-policy-issues/pages/default.aspx

*********************************************Unit II Scholarly Activity  (Part 1)********************************************

This unit asks you to think about your own culture in terms of norms, values, beliefs, and behaviors. The unit also asks you to think about those agents of socialization most closely related to various aspects of culture. For this assignment, you are asked to think about the same issues as they apply to another culture.

Choose a culture you know nothing about. Go online to research this group and answer the following questions about their culture and socialization.

1. In a paragraph, introduce your culture. Be sure to give the location of the group, why you chose the group, and what you hope to learn.

2. In one to two paragraphs, describe three interesting aspects about this culture. Choose something about their everyday life (folkway), something about their religion (value), and something about their biggest taboo (more).

3. Discuss the agents of socialization involved in the transmission of the three interesting aspects you chose.

4. Finally, how does each of these aspects affect the development of self for members of the group?

Be sure to think and write sociologically, using correct terminology and being objective. Your paper must be at least one page in length, double-spaced, using Times New Roman 12-pt. font. Use the indicated rubric to guide your work. Use appropriate APA in-text citations and provide a reference page.

*******************************************Unit II Research Topic (Part 2)***********************************************

This Unit II assignment is the first step towards completing your research paper. For this submission, you will need to find a topic of interest related to race and ethnicity, social change, or both. I have chosen the topic listed below:

relative deprivation

Once you have chosen your topic, you will need to search for one peer-reviewed scholarly article that discusses your topic of interest. (I HAVE ATTACHED VARIOUS ARTICLES THAT ARE TO BE USED FOR THIS ASSIGNMENT)

In a Word document, submit your topic of interest, tell how it relates to race and ethnicity or social change, and explain what you hope to learn from this topic. You will also provide a brief summary of the article.

Your research topic submission and article summary must be at least one page in length. Use APA format for in-text citations and references.