Unit 5 Assignment: Continuous Quality Improvement

Unit outcomes addressed in this activity:         

Course outcome assessed with this activity  

HS460-4: Evaluate health information projects.  

Instructions  

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Read Exhibit 9-1 in Continuous Quality Improvement in Health Care. You are in charge of the risk management team that must investigate this incident and report to the CEO of the hospital. Based on what you have learned, list all the system failures that contributed to the patient safety event and discuss the following:

1. What was the event?

2. Who was involved?

3. Was there a process in place that might not have been followed that contributed or caused this event to take place?

4. Describe the project that you would assign to your quality improvement team to complete to prevent this from happening again.

5. Describe the project that you would assign to the health information management team to complete to prevent this from happening again.  

Requirements ·       

Put your responses in a Word document. Save it in a location and with the proper naming convention: username-HS460-section-Unit 5_Assignment.doc (username is your Kaplan username, section is your course section, 5 is your Unit number). When you are ready to submit it, go to the Dropbox and complete the steps below:

1. Click the link that says “Submit an Assignment.”

2. In the “Submit to Basket” menu, select Unit 5: Assignment.

3. In the “Comments” field, make sure to add at least the title of your paper.

4. Click the “Add Attachments” button.

5. Follow the steps listed to attach your Word document.

To view your graded work, come back to the Dropbox or go to the Gradebook after your instructor has evaluated it. Make sure that you save a copy of your submitted project.