Iidentify two nursing actions or interventions designed to improve patient care or a patient outcome.

Baccalaureate education will provide learning opportunities to use
safety principles, quality improvement concepts, basic quality and
safety investigations, and monitoring the results and outcomes (AACN,
2008).
Transforming healthcare and improving quality are priorities for the
profession of nursing. The following activity will help you explore key
national priority health care areas for quality improvement as
identified by the Institute of Medicine. Begin by selecting a key
healthcare priority area and a population. Next, review and locate 2
article that describes a nursing intervention designed to improve a
patient outcome for the chosen population selected healthcare priority
issue. Finally, discuss why it is important for nursing to be involved
in Quality Improvement and describe how nursing values can be used to
help improve safe patient care.
Access the Priority Areas for National Action: Transforming Health Quality and read Chapter 3: Priority Areas for Quality Improvement, pages 41-45. Select ONE priority area (priority healthcare issue) and identify a patient population you would like to explore.
Rubric
Identifies and
describes the
selected healthcare
priority issue, the
population it
involves, and the
significance of the
health care issue.
Includes facts or
data.
Discusses the
rationale for
choosing the
priority healthcare
issue and explains
the priority
healthcare issue
importance to
nursing. Provides
details.
Clearly identify
two nursing actions
or interventions
designed to
improve patient
care or a patient
outcome. From
the two nursing
article, select a total
of two (no more or
less) nursing
interventions and
explain how the
interventions
improved two
patient outcome
Using the
interventions from
the articles/studies,
describe how you
would recommend
a Quality Initiative
(QI) to improve
patient care within
a healthcare facility
(hospital) and
explain why this
QI would be
important to
implement for
patients
Using the
interventions from
the articles/studies,
describe how you
would recommend
a Quality Initiative
(QI) to improve
patient care within
a healthcare facility
(hospital) and
explain why this
QI would be
important to
implement for
patients nursing values can
help to improve
patient care
outcomes.