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1. Analyze quality and safety outcomes from an administrative and systems
ASSIGNMENTDevelop a presentation, augmented by 12-15 slides, for administrative leaders
and stakeholders that outlines your plan to develop or enhance a culture of quality and
safety within your organization or practice setting.As you prepare to complete this
assessment, you may want to think about other related issues to deepen your
understanding or broaden your viewpoint. You are encouraged to consider the questions
below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a
member of your professional community. Note that these questions are for your own
development and exploration and do not need to be completed or submitted as part of your
assessment.How might you engage stakeholders to help develop, implement, and sustain a
vision to actually change and improve patient outcomes?What arguments might be most
effective in obtaining agreement and support?What recommendations would you make to
implement a proposed plan for change?RequirementsNote: The requirements outlined
below correspond to the grading criteria in the Planning for Change—A Leader’s Vision
Scoring Guide. Be sure that your written analysis addresses each point, at a minimum. You
may also want to read the Planning for Change—A Leader’s Vision Scoring Guide and
Guiding Questions: Planning for Change—A Leader’s Vision [DOCX] to better understand
how each criterion will be assessed.Developing the PresentationSummarize the key aspects
of a plan to develop or enhance a culture of safety.Identify existing organizational functions,
processes, and behaviors affecting quality and safety.Identify current outcome measures
related to quality and safety.Explain the steps needed to achieve improved outcomes.Create
a future vision of your organization’s potential to develop and sustain a culture of quality
and safety and the nurse leader’s role in developing that potential.Communication and
Supporting EvidenceArgue persuasively to obtain agreement with, and support for, a plan
to develop or enhance a culture of safety.Support your main points, arguments, and
conclusions with relevant and credible evidence, correctly formatting citations and
references using APA style.Additional RequirementsYour slide deck should consist of 12–15
slides, including a title slide and a references slide.List your sources on the references slide
at the end of your presentation.Use of a small font is permitted to fit all 8 references on a
single slide.Portfolio Prompt: You may choose to save your presentation to your
ePortfolio.Competencies MeasuredBy successfully completing this assessment, you will
demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment
criteria:Competency 1: Analyze quality and safety outcomes from an administrative and
systems perspective.Summarize the key aspects of a plan to develop or enhance a culture of

2. safety.Competency 2: Determine how outcome measures promote quality and safety
processes within an organization.Identify current outcome measures related to quality and
safety.Competency 3: Determine how specific organizational functions, policies, processes,
procedures, norms, and behaviors can be used to build reliability and high-performing
organizations.Identify existing organizational functions, processes, and behaviors affecting
quality and safety.Competency 4: Synthesize the various aspects of the nurse leader’s role in
developing, promoting, and sustaining a culture of quality and safety.Explain the steps
needed to achieve improved outcomes.Create a future vision of an organization’s potential
to develop and sustain a culture of quality and safety and the nurse leader’s role developing
that potential.Competency 5: Communicate effectively with diverse audiences, in an
appropriate form and style, consistent with applicable organizational, professional, and
scholarly standards.Argue persuasively to obtain agreement with, and support from,
administrative leaders and stakeholders in an organization for a plan to develop or enhance
a culture of safety.Support main points, arguments, and conclusions with relevant and
credible evidence, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.