Delivering Safe High-Quality Health Care

Delivering Safe High-Quality Health Care

Delivering Safe High-Quality Health Care

Competency 1: Explain the concepts, principles, and characteristics of effective health care leadership.

o Analyze the factors contributing to a problematic health care issue.

· Competency 2: Explain the role of health care leaders in facilitating interprofessional collaboration.

o Explain the need for interprofessional collaboration to improve the quality and safety of health care in specific instances.

o Assess the effectiveness of a particular leadership approach in building and maintaining interprofessional collaborative relationships.

o Develop a collaborative plan for improving the quality and safety of health care in specific instances.

o Determine the leader’s role in implementing collaborative health care improvement projects.

· Competency 4: Determine the influence of the practitioner-scholar role on professional practice and leadership development.

o Determine how the practitioner-scholar model might be applied in resolving a particular health care issue.

· Competency 5: Communicate effectively with diverse audiences, in an appropriate form and style, consistent with applicable organizational, professional, and scholarly standards.

Learning outcome:

LO8:

Name:
1. Instructions and guidelines (Read carefully)
Instructions
Insert your name and surname in the space provided above, as well as in the file name. Save the file as: First name Surname Assignment 4 – e.g. Lilly Smith Assignment 4. NB: Please ensure that you use the name that appears in your student profile on the Online Campus.
2 Write all your answers in this document. There is an instruction that says, “Start writing here” under each question. Please type your answer there.

3 Submit your assignment in Microsoft Word only. No other file types will be accepted.

4 Do not delete the plagiarism declaration or the assignment instructions and guidelines. They must remain on your assignment when you submit.

PLEASE NOTE: Plagiarism cases will be penalised according to the Head Tutor’s and GetSmarter’s discretion.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: Please ensure that you have checked your course calendar for the due date for this assignment.

Guidelines
1 There are eight pages and one question in this assignment.

2 Make sure that you have carefully read and fully understood the questions before answering them. Answer the questions fully but concisely and as directly as possible. Follow all specific instructions for individual questions (e. g. “list”, “in point form”).

3 Answer all questions in your own words. Do not copy any text from the notes, readings or other sources. The assignment must be your own work only.

Plagiarism Declaration:
1. I know that plagiarism is wrong. Plagiarism is to use another’s work and pretend that it is one’s own.

2. This assignment is my own work.

3. I have not allowed, and will not allow, anyone to copy my work with the intention of passing it off as his or her own work.

4. I acknowledge that copying someone else’s assignment (or part of it) is wrong, and declare that my assignments are my own work.
2. Mark allocation
Each question receives a mark allocation. However, you will only receive a final percentage mark and will not be given individual marks for each question. The mark allocation is there to show you the weighting and length of each question.