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Activity 3

Maintaining Standards

Choose a topic and discuss the standards in detail. Analyze how these concepts/ processes influence the standards in your organization, including staffing, decision making or workplace issues, both positively and negatively.

  • Affordable Care Act
  • Agency for Healthcare, Quality and Research
  • Benchmarking Tools and Organizations
  • Certification for Nursing
  • Electronic Health Care Record
  • Electronic prescribing / Telehealth
  • Institute for Healthcare, Quality Improvement
  • Lean Project Management
  • Outcomes Management
  • Patient Care Pathways
  • Population Health Management
  • Practice Guidelines
  • Quality Management
  • Risk Management
  • Sentinel Event Management
  • Standards of Nursing Practice
  • Standards of Patient Care
  • Structure Standards
  • TJC Accreditation
  • Utilization Management
  • Value based care

Support your discussion and opinions with facts and relevant examples from personal nursing practice.

Reading and Resources

  • Review chapter 13 & 23 in Marquis, B. L., & Huston, C. J. (2017). Leadership roles and management functions in nursing: Theory and application. Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer.
  • Aroh, D., Colella, J., Douglas, C., & Eddings, A. (2015). An example of translating value-based purchasing into value-based care. Urologic Nursing, 35(2), 61-74. doi:10.7257/1053-816X.2015.35.2.61
  • Boyle, D. K., Cramer, E., Potter, C., Gatua, M. W., & Stobinski, J. X. (2014). The relationship between direct-care RN specialty certification and surgical patient outcomes. AORN Journal, 100(5), 511-528. doi:10.1016/j.aorn.2014.04.018
  • Kizer, K. W. (2015). Clinical integration: A cornerstone for population health management. Journal of Healthcare Management, 60(3), 164-168.
  • Marmor, T. R., & Gordon, R. W. (2014). Commercial pressures on professionalism in American medical care: From Medicare to the Affordable Care Act. Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 42(4), 412-419. doi:10.1111/jlme.12164
  • Spruce, L. (2015). Back to basics: Implementing evidence-based practice. AORN Journal, 101(1), 106-112. doi:10.1016/j.aorn.2014.08.009Visit the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
  • Visit the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
  • Visit the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC)
  • Visit The Joint Commission
  • Visit Affordable Care Act

Additional Instructions:

  1. All submissions should have a title page and reference page.
  2. Utilize a minimum of two scholarly resources.
  3. Adhere to grammar, spelling and punctuation criteria.
  4. Adhere to APA compliance guidelines.
  5. Adhere to the chosen Submission Option for Delivery of Activity guidelines.

Submission Options:

Choose One:

Instructions:

Paper
  • 2 to 3-page paper. Include title and reference pages.

Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation
  • 4 to 8 slides. Add title and reference slides.
  • Follow Rules of 7.

Other media (Prezi, etc.) presentation
  • 4 to 8 slides with speaker notes. Add title and reference slides.
  • Follow Rules of 7.

Video Presentation
  • 5 to 6-minute video presentation.
  • Attach reference page or include in video.
  • Professional appearance and background.
  • Video submissions must include a script in Word format, submitted through Turnitin for an Originality Report.

Table
  • Table with appropriate columns and headers.
  • Include title and reference pages.

Graphs or other illustrations
  • Graphs or illustrations with appropriate labels. Include title and reference pages.

Poster
  • Poster utilizing any applicable poster template. Include visual graphics/images/other formats for visual appeal. Include appropriate title and references on poster.

Note: Title and reference pages/slides do not count towards the count requirements.

Management and Leadership – Maintaining Standards
Description: The baccalaureate-graduate nurse will examine the concepts/ processes that assist in
maintaining standards that promote patient safety.
Course Competency: 4) Develop a personal “toolkit” based on best practice evidence for
managing workplace issues such as change initiatives, conflict and discrimination.
QSEN Competency: 2) Teamwork and Collaboration
BSN Essential II
Area Gold
Mastery
Silver
Proficient
Bronze
Acceptable
Acceptable
Mastery not
Demonstrated
Choose a Topic Selects a topic
from the list above
and discusses the
standard in detail
Selects a topic
from the list above
but does not
discuss the
standard in detail
Selects a topic
from the list
above and lists
details of the
standard
Selects a topic
from the list above
but does not
discuss the
standard
Analyze the
Influence
Discusses how
these concepts/
processes
influence the
standards in your
organization,
including
staffing, decision
making or
workplace
issues, both
positively and
negatively.
Mentions how
these concepts/
processes
influence the
standards in your
organization,
including staffing,
decision making
or workplace
issues, both
positively and
negatively.
Lists how these
concepts/
processes
influence the
standards in your
organization,
including staffing,
decision making
or workplace
issues, both
positively and
negatively.
Does not discuss
how these
concepts/
processes
influence the
standards in your
organization,
including staffing,
decision making
or workplace
issues, both
positively and
negatively.
Support the
Discussion
Supports the
discussion and
opinions with
facts and
relevant
examples from
personal nursing
practice
Supports the
discussion and
opinions with
either facts or
relevant examples
from personal
nursing practice
Lists facts and
relevant
examples from
personal nursing
practice with no
discussion
Does not support
the discussion
and opinions
with facts and
relevant
examples from
personal nursing
practice
APA, Grammar,
Spelling, and
Punctuation
No errors in
APA, Spelling,
and Punctuation.
One to three
errors in APA,
Spelling, and
Punctuation.
Four to six
errors in APA,
Spelling, and
Punctuation.
Seven or more
errors in APA,
Spelling, and
Punctuation.
References Provides two or
more references.
Provides two
references.
Provides one
references.
Provides no
references