Assignment Directions

This assessment is designed to highlight the role you play in quality, safe patient care on a daily basis.

Identify a patient care case from your own practice experience that involves quality and safety.

Note: If you are not practicing or have not practiced, use a case that has received media attention or one from the textbook.

Summarize the situation.

Describe your (or the nurse’s) role in the patient care situation.

Explain the role the patient played in their own quality- or safety-related situation.

Evaluate the relationship between the patient’s care and the outcome.

Identify how the care environment affected the situation, including the nurse or provider, the patient, and the outcome.

Determine whether a quality model was employed. If yes, identify and explain it. If not, identify one that could have improved the situation.

Explain what actions you might take to improve the outcome or prevent an adverse outcome in the future.

Competency Assessment Rubric

The summary of the patient case/the situation was thorough.

The description of the student’s (or the nurse’s) role in the patient care situation was accurate and thorough.

The explanation of the role the patient played in their own quality- or safety-related situation was accurate and comprehensive.

The evaluation of the relationship between the patient’s care and the outcome was accurate and thorough.

The student accurately identified how the care environment affected the situation, including the nurse or provider, the patient, and the outcome.

The student accurately determined whether a quality model was employed. If yes, the student accurately identified and thoroughly explained it. If not, the student accurately identified one that could have improved the situation.

The explanation of the actions the student might take to improve the outcome or prevent an adverse outcome in the future was accurate and comprehensive.

Accuracy in grammar, sentence structures, sentence boundaries, and word choice enhanced content.