Wk 2 Summative Assessment: Patient Safety Evidence Report
Exam Content
Ensuring and improving patient safety, and analyzing drivers and measurements of quality improvement in health care are
crucial skills for health care workers, such as health care managers and quality improvement managers. There are many facets of
quality measures, and your understanding of and adherence to quality standards demonstrates skill in protecting and
improving patient safety.
Preparation
As a health care manager reporting to the quality improvement manager, you and your team are responsible for creating evidence
for an agency site visit. Choose 1 health care environment (i.e., hospital, physician’s office, pharmacy, nursing home) as your
employer for this assessment.
Choose the agency/organization that would work with and create standards for your chosen health care environment.
Examine the relationship between the quality domains, quality standards, and quality indicators used by your chosen health care
environment to improve the quality of health care. The following are examples of some of the domains, standards, and indicators
and the organizations that use them.
• The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (formerly Institute of Medicine IOM)
• Six Domains of Health Care Quality
• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
• Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) |
• Acancy for Hoalthrare Racearch and Quality (AHRA) Drovention Quality indicatore /DAle)
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