NURS-FPX 4020
Improving Quality of Care and Patient Safety
This course focuses on patient safety and quality improvement. You look at how safety problems such as medication errors or falls happen, what the evidence says about preventing them, and how nurses coordinate with others to reduce risk.
Overview
What this course covers
This course focuses on patient safety and quality improvement. You look at how safety problems such as medication errors or falls happen, what the evidence says about preventing them, and how nurses coordinate with others to reduce risk.
Learning objectives
- Identify a safety concern in a practice setting
- Apply evidence-based best practice to a quality or safety problem
- Explain the nurse's role in coordinating safety improvement
- Communicate findings to staff and stakeholders
Main topics
- Patient safety
- Quality improvement
- Root cause analysis
- Safety culture
- Error prevention
How the course is structured
Work is submitted as a sequence of assessments across the term, moving from analysing a safety problem to proposing and presenting an improvement approach.
Course components
- Safety issue analysis
- Root cause analysis and improvement plan
- Stakeholder or staff presentation
Helpful resources
- Peer-reviewed patient safety and quality literature
- National patient safety guidance
- APA 7 formatting guidance
Assessments
Assessments in this course
Each assessment has its own page explaining what it is, why it matters and how to prepare.
Assessment 1
Assessment 1
Assessment 1 of NURS-FPX 4020 is one step in the course sequence. It asks you to apply what the course has covered so far to a realistic situation and to support your reasoning with credible sources.
Read the guideAssessment 2
Assessment 2
Assessment 2 of NURS-FPX 4020 is one step in the course sequence. It asks you to apply what the course has covered so far to a realistic situation and to support your reasoning with credible sources.
Read the guideAssessment 3
Assessment 3
Assessment 3 of NURS-FPX 4020 is one step in the course sequence. It asks you to apply what the course has covered so far to a realistic situation and to support your reasoning with credible sources.
Read the guideAssessment 4
Assessment 4
Assessment 4 of NURS-FPX 4020 is one step in the course sequence. It asks you to apply what the course has covered so far to a realistic situation and to support your reasoning with credible sources.
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