Draft an Essay Highlighting Interprofessional Practice and Patient Safety

Aim:

The purpose of this essay is to enable you to critically evaluate current research about the topic ‘failure to rescue’ as related to the deteriorating patient in the acute healthcare environment. You will examine nursing strategies that can be used to prevent patient deterioration and that are instrumental in maintaining patient safety.

This assessment item will address learning outcomes 1 and 3 of this course.

Task description:

For this task you are asked to write a 2000-word essay in which you critically evaluate ‘failure to rescue’ as it relates to the deteriorating patient in the acute healthcare environment.

Your evaluation must be underpinned by patient safety needs, and should include a discussion about incidence, consequences and nursing strategies as reflected in the current literature.

Your essay must include the following components:

1. An introductory paragraph that outlines the aim of the assignment.
2. A definition of the concept of failure to rescue.
3. A discussion of the incidence & prevalence of adverse events that are linked to failure to rescue in the Australian acute healthcare environment.
4. An analysis and evaluation of the consequences of failure to rescue for the patient; the patient’s family; and the health care system.
5. A critical evaluation of TWO nursing strategies involving either the patient; the patient’s family or the health care system that may be used to prevent registered nurses from failing to rescue to maintain patient safety.
6. A conclusion summarising the central points of your essay.

Other elements:

• Refer to the Health Group Writing and Referencing Guide for all presentation, referencing and formatting guidelines. This is located on all course sites.
• Word limits for all assignments needs to be strictly adhered to. The word limit for an assessment item includes in text citations, tables and quotations. The word limit does not include the reference list. Please note the marker will cease marking your submitted work once they have reached the allocated word limit.
• Ensure that you use scholarly literature (digitised readings, research articles, relevant Government reports and textbooks) that have been published in in the last 5 years.
• You must include a Reference list on a separate page formatted to APA 7th style.
• Write in the third person and use academic language throughout.
• Refer to the marking criteria when writing your assignment. This will assist you in calculating the weightings of the sections for your assignment.