Outcome 4: Implement National Patient Safety Goals and safe nursing practice in the clinical setting.

Title

Assignment: National Patient Safety Goal

Put X in box to correspond with the SLO (s)

Put X in box to correspond with the Competency (s)

Knowledge/Practice/Ethical Comportment

K

P

E

Student Learning Outcome(s)

Patient-Centered Care

Communication Skills

Nursing Process

Learning Needs

Technology

Documentation

Informatics

Nursing Judgment

Prioritization

Nursing Judgment

Professionalism

Professionalism

Ethical/Legal

Quality Improvement

Patient Care Concerns

Systems

Safety

x

Patient Complications

Safe Nursing

x

x

x

Teamwork/Collaboration

Communication

Conflict Recognition

Managing Care

Managing Care of the Individual Patient

Assign/Monitor

Where should this assignment be used:

Classroom

X

Clinical Setting

X

Independent Study

X

Online/Web Based

X

Skills Lab

Simulation

Revised from Linda Caputi © (What type of assignment is this?)

Patient Care Assignment

Non-Patient Care Assignments

Patient Care

The assignments are related to the student while providing patient care in the clinical setting.
Example: Concept mapping care for one or multiple patients.

Thinking Focused
Assignments encourages critical thinking and clinical reasoning and teaches students to think like a nurse.

Patient Focused

The student focuses on specific aspects of patient care such as safety, falls, diabetes, other diseases, etc.

Systems Focused

Assignments help the student understand the clinical world, the nurse’s work therein, and the effect of the system on the nurse and the patient.
Example: How the system completes medication administration from order to delivery to patient.

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x

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