Required Uniform Assignment: National Patient Safety Goals

PURPOSE
This exercise is designed to increase awareness of the National Patient Safety Goals developed by The Joint Commission. Specifically, this assignment will introduce the Speak Up Initiatives, an awardwinning patient safety program designed to help patients promote their own safety by proactively taking charge of their healthcare.

COURSE OUTCOMES
This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes.
CO : Apply the concepts of health promotion and illness prevention in the laboratory setting.
CO : Explain the rationale for selected nursing interventions based upon current nursing literature.

REQUIREMENTS

1. Select a Speak Up brochure developed by The Joint Commission. Follow this link to the proper website:

http://www.jointcommission.org/topics/speakup_brochures.aspx.

2. Write a short paper reviewing the brochure. Structure your critique, and include current nursing or healthcare research to support critique.

a. The length of the paper is to be no greater than three pages, double spaced, excluding title page and reference page. Extra pages will not be read and will not count toward your grade.

3. This assignment will be graded on quality of information presented, use of citations, and use of Standard English grammar, sentence structure, and organization based on the required components.

4. Create the review using Microsoft Word 2007 (a part of Microsoft Office 2007), the required format for all Chamberlain documents. You can tell that the document is saved as a MS Word 2007 document because it will end in ".docx."

5. Any questions about this paper may be discussed in the weekly Q & A Forum in your online course or directly with your faculty member if you are taking NR224 on campus.

6. APA format is required with both a title page and reference page. Use the required components of the review as Level 1 headers (upper- and lowercase, bold, centered).

a. Introduction
b. Summary of Brochure
c. Evaluation of Brochure
d. Conclusion

PREPARING THE PAPER
The following are the best practices in preparing this paper.

1) Read the brochure carefully and take notes. Highlighting important points has been helpful to many students.

2) Title page: Include title of your paper, your name, Chamberlain College of Nursing, NR224 Fundamentals-Skills, faculty name, and the date. Center all items between the left and right margins, beginning approximately 3 inches from the top margin.

NOTE: This style of cover page is required by the college and is a variance of APA formatting.

3) Use the CCN library or online library to find current nursing research that supports your findings.

4) The brochure you select must be properly cited in the body of your paper and on the reference list.