Effects of Surgical Smoke Plume
Assignment Criteria for the Paper
Identify a potential risk within a healthcare organization and provide the rationale for choosing this issue.
Discuss the risk management elements and patient safety strategies in this issue. You should have at least 2 strategies.
Complete a literature review related to this issue. Many students struggle with the literature review. For this section, you will summarize/analyze 4 articles (from the last 5 years) related to your problem/topic for this paper. In the summary/analysis of each article you will include all the pertinent information related to your topic. Do not include the non-pertinent information. Most articles will have both as most articles don’t addresses the exact scope or view of the topic you are looking at for your paper.
Discuss the contributing factors related to problem which could include internal and external environmental factors and mechanism, human factors, engineering, and other factors to improve patient safety.
Use a risk theory and apply it to the patient safety issue. This can be the Swiss Cheese Model or Pit Theory for example.
Integrate two QSEN competencies within your plan to mitigate this risk-related issue and discuss each of them..
The body of the scholarly paper is to be 3–5 pages in length, excluding the title and reference pages.
Grammar, spelling, punctuation, references, and citations are consistent with formal academic writing and APA format as expressed in the current edition.
Include a minimum of four references published within the past 5 years, not including your textbook. References may include scholarly websites of organizations or government agencies and must be presented using APA current edition format for electronic media.
