Preparation
As you prepare for this assessment, complete the following:
Before you begin, examine your organization’s history of safety in a specific area and how your organization addresses patient safety issues. If possible, consult with a key stakeholder in the organization (such as an administrator) to better understand specific patient-safety concerns and how the organization is working to resolve the concerns. This person should also be able to discuss some of the organizational barriers impacting the patient safety issue.
Next, look at the basic concepts, principles, and practices that contribute to organizational quality improvement and patient safety. Review the literature for best practices and how technology might be used to improve the issue.
Finally, be sure to consider the legal and ethical implications associated with the safety issue, as well as possible organizational barriers to change.
Directions
As you construct this assessment, address each point as completely as possible:
Describe a patient-safety issue within your organization.
Compare the way your organization addresses patient-safety issues with the concepts, principles, and practices that contribute to quality improvement and patient safety.
Analyze the legal and ethical consequences of not addressing the issue.
Recommend evidence-based interventions to address the patient-safety issue.
Explain how technology can be used to improve the issue.
Identify possible organizational barriers to change (budget, vision, technology, et cetera).
Describe strategies to overcome organizational barriers to change, based on your knowledge of the organization.
Additional Requirements
Format: Include a title page and reference page. Use APA style and formatting.
Length: Ensure your completed assessment is 8-10 pages in length, not including the title page and reference page.
References: Cite at least five current scholarly or professional resources.
Font: Use double-spaced, 12-point, Times New Roman font.
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Describes a patient-safety issue and explores likely causes of the issue.
Evaluates currently used organizational processes for handling patient safety issues in terms of the evidence-based concepts, principles, and practices that contribute to quality improvement and patient safety.
Analyzes the legal and ethical consequences of not addressing patient-safety issues and describes the impact on the organization from a financial and regulatory perspective.
Recommend evidence-based interventions to address specific patient-safety issues.
Evaluates evidence-based interventions to address specific patient-safety issues to determine the most appropriate intervention for the organization and the safety issue.
Analyzes how technology can be used to improve patient safety.
Identifies organizational barriers to change and explores the factors within the organization that created the barriers.
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Analyzes strategies to overcome organizational barriers to change and determines the most effective strategies to use for a specific organization.
Writing is coherent, using evidence to support a central idea in a consistently appropriate APA format, with correct grammar, usage, and mechanics as expected of a nursing professional
Health, Safety, and Nutrition for the Young Child Questions
Read Chapters 2 & 3. Answer the following questions:
1. Define impairment, health assessment, atypical and observations.
2. How do early childhood programs make a contribution to children’s well-being?
3. List ten (10) sources for gathering information about children’s health.
4. Why should conclusions drawn from teacher observations be made with caution?
5. How are daily health checks valuable to teachers?
6. Where should a health check be done? How should a teacher perform the health check?
7. What are Mongolian spots?
8. Define symptoms, anecdotal, and diagnosis.
9. How should health observations be recorded? Be specific.
10. What rights do parents have concerning their child’s health records?
11. List several advantages to monitoring a child’s health status.
12. How can the family be involved in daily health checks?
13. List eight (8) free or low-cost health services for young children.
Chapter 3:
1. List three (3) yields of health information collected in an objective manner and from a combination of screening procedures.
2. List eight (8) purposes for information from health records.
3. Define intervention.
4. How/why/when should health information of a child be shared?
5. What information can be gathered through health history questionnaires?
6. Define skeletal and neurological.
7. What is the purpose of screening tests?
8. What is the most reliable indicator of a child’s general health and nutritional status?
9. Define BMI, underweight, overweight and obese.
10. Define ophthalmologist and optometrist.
11. List four (4) items to check for in children’s eyes.
12. List and define four (4) common vision disorders in young children.
13. Why does hearing loss have a profound effect on children?
14. What are the first indications that a child is not hearing properly?
15. Define audiologist.
16. List and define the three (3) most common types of hearing loss.
17. Define speech and misarticulations.
18. List eight (8) delayed language or abnormal speech patterns that should be evaluated.
19. Define pallor and lethargy.
20. Define mottling and skinfold.
21. List and explain four (4) methods of assessing children’s nutritional status.
22. What causes malnutrition?
23. List four (4) target areas for maximum weight management success.
24. What is the purpose of a referral? Who is involved in the referral process?