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Guidelines Purpose

The purpose of this assignment is to identify nursing care models utilized in today’s various
health care settings and enhance your knowledge of how models impact the management of care
and may influence delegation. You will assess the effectiveness of models and determine how
you would collaborate with a nurse leader to identify opportunities for improvement to ensure
quality, safety and staff satisfaction.

Course Outcomes

Completion of this assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes.
CO#1: Apply leadership concepts, skills, and decision making in the provision of high quality
nursing care, healthcare team management, and the oversight and accountability for care delivery
in a variety of settings. (PO #2)

CO#2: Implement patient safety and quality improvement initiatives within the context of the
interprofessional team through communication and relationship building. (PO #3)

CO#3: Participate in the development and implementation of imaginative and creative strategies
to enablesystems to change. (PO #7)

CO#6: Develop a personal awareness of complex organizational systems and integrate values
and beliefs withorganizational mission. (PO #7)

CO#7: Apply leadership concepts in the development and initiation of effective plans for the
microsystems and/or system-wide practice improvements that will improve the quality of
healthcare delivery. (PO #2, and #3)

CO#8: Apply concepts of quality and safety using structure, process, and outcome measures to
identify clinical questions as the beginning process of changing current practice. (PO#8) Due