Winning the War on Healthcare Harm Discussion

This is an individual assignment. Please post a brief introduction, including your name and background. Consider including a photo of yourself, but note this not a requirement. Use this forum to help you select group members to work with on the upcoming group assignments. Students find it easier to meet as groups when work schedules are similar, for example. As such, include your schedule and other factors that would be important to consider in selecting your group (e.g., work ethic, etc.). Then, to make things fun and get to know each other just a little more, answer the ice breaker questions.

You should include the following:

Name and background (photo of self welcome but not required)
Schedule considerations and any other factors you feel contribute to group efficiency and success
What is your current theme song? In other words, what is the underscore to your life right now? What song would play when you walk into the room?
What is one skill or talent you would like to develop?
What is your favorite year and why?

After introduced yourself do this one:

In order to post to this forum, you will need to first watch the video “Chasing Zero: Winning the War on Healthcare Harm.” This forum topic is directly related to the course objective “minimizes risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.”

Instructions:

This is an individual assignment. You are an RN proposing change at your work place to a committee interested in “chasing zero.” You have 2-3 minutes to catch their attention, show your passion, and demonstrate your commitment to such efforts. Post a video of yourself giving opening statements.

You should include the following:

What was your first thought after watching the video?
What are your ‘take aways’, or lasting impressions, after watching the video?
Personal stories help all that are involved in errors (e.g., staff, victims, families of victims, etc.) to process the event. They also serve as motivation to improve and commit to a better way of doing things. Do you or does anyone you know have a personal story involving preventable error? If not, reference an example outside of those described in the “Chasing Zero” video.
What influence does sharing of errors have on your nursing practice?
The video should be professional in nature; minimize or eliminate “filler” words (e.g., “uh,” “like,” “you know”), slang, and disorganized thoughts. Be sure you speak clearly and at an appropriate pace while working within the 2-3 minute timeframe.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.