Analyze quality and safety outcomes from an administrative and systems perspective.

  
  • Competency 1: Analyze quality and safety outcomes from an administrative and systems perspective.
    • Identify typical quality and safety outcomes and their associated measures.
  • Competency 3: Determine how specific organizational functions, policies, processes, procedures, norms, and behaviors can be used to build reliability and high-performing organizations.
    • Analyze organizational functions, processes, and behaviors in high-performing organizations.
    • Determine how organizational functions, processes, and behaviors support and affect outcome measures for an organization.
    • Identify performance issues or opportunities associated with particular organizational functions, processes, and behaviors and the quality and safety outcomes they affect.
  • Competency 4: Synthesize the various aspects of the nurse leader’s role in developing, promoting, and sustaining a culture of quality and safety.
    • Outline a strategy for ensuring that all aspects of patient care are measured and that knowledge is shared with the staff.
  • Competency 5: Communicate effectively with diverse audiences, in an appropriate form and style, consistent with applicable organizational, professional, and scholarly standards.
    • Write coherently and with purpose, for a specific audience, using correct grammar and mechanics.
    • Integrate relevant and credible sources of evidence to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.