NURS-4220K Week 1: Practice Experience – Leadership Competencies in Nursing and Healthcare – Group B

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NURS-4220K Leadership Competencies-Summer

Discussion – Practice Problem Identification

  1. Identify a measurable patient-centered practice problem related to quality or safety relevant to your practice setting.

  2. Post a brief description of the problem.

  3. Explain why you selected this problem.

  4. Explain how your conversation with a key leader influenced your decision.

  5. Support the problem with literature demonstrating its relevance to nursing practice.

  6. Provide evidence from your practice area and describe available data.

Peer Responses (By Day 7)

  1. Respond to at least two classmates.

  2. Help refine and clarify their patient-centered practice problem.

  3. Provide support and suggestions on how the problem improves patient outcomes.

  4. Post on three different days of the week.

Capstone Paper (4–5 pages)

  1. Apply the quality improvement (QI) process to your selected practice problem.

  2. Use a minimum of five evidence-based resources (including 2–3 research studies).

  3. Demonstrate mastery of QI concepts, organization, scholarly writing, and APA formatting.

Sample Solution

The practice problem I chose was youth with untreated mental health issues that result in substance abuse and inappropriate incarceration. I sat down with clinical director and director of nursing who’s re key players in my facility to discuss the factors that lead to mishandling of of the youth’s diagnosis. They brought up the issues of youth being forced….Click below to access the full sample solution (PDF)