Choose one of the following two assignments to complete this week. Do not do both assignments. Identify your assignment choice in the title of your submission. Option #1: Wrong Site Surgery Memo 1. First, read the description of the wrong-site surgery event in Critical Concept 8.2 and the root causes identified by the team who conducted the RCA. 2. Then, conduct a literature review and Internet search for risk reduction strategies aimed at preventing wrong-site surgeries. 3. For this assignment, you will write a memo addressed to the Chief Nursing Officer. Explain and justify four to six specific strategies that would best prevent a similar event from occurring. 4. The memo should be well-written and meet the following requirements: – Be two pages (single-spaced) in length plus a title page and a reference page – Includes at least three references from the peer-reviewed articles. The FAMU-Coleman Library is a good place to find peer-reviewed articles. – Conforms to APA style. Option #2: Failed Improvement Project Memo 1. First, read the failed improvement project discussed in the case study in chapter 9 of the textbook. 2. Then, conduct a literature review and Internet search for risk reduction strategies aimed at preventing and managing heel ulcerations. 3. For this assignment, you will write a brief memo addressed to the Chief Nursing Officer. In the memo, identify and discuss two or three specific process changes that could be implemented to achieve 80 to 90 percent reliability in preventing and managing heel ulcerations. Then identify and discuss two or three additional process changes that would be needed to reach 95 percent reliability. Finally, discuss how you would measure the effectiveness of the changes. 4. The memo should be well-written and meet the following requirements: – Be two pages (single-spaced) in length plus a title page and a reference page – Includes at least three references from the peer-reviewed articles. The FAMU-Coleman Library is a good place to find peer-reviewed articles. – Conforms to APA style.
