Case Study: Creating a culture of safety in response to an adverse event in healthcare (125 points)
For this assignment, you will access the Saudi Digital Library to research a specific case of an adverse event that occurred in healthcare. Using the case that you have identified, you will write a research paper exploring the impact and importance of creating a safety culture in healthcare organizations. Your research paper shall:
Describe the adverse event that you selected as your case study. Include details of the patient outcome and the contributing factors involved in the adverse event.
Evaluate the impact and importance of creating a patient safety culture in healthcare organizations.
Create an improvement plan to address the issues that were identified in your adverse event case. Your plan shall include analysis of best practices in safety culture.
Your well-written paper should meet the following requirements:
Four-to-five pages in length, not including the title or reference pages.
Formatted per APA 7th edition and Saudi Electronic University standards.
Provide support for your work with in-text citations from a minimum of four scholarly articles. Two of these sources may be from the class readings, textbook, or lectures, but two must be external. The Saudi Digital Library is a good place to find these references.
Provide full APA references for the sources used on a reference page, along with appropriate in-text citations.
Utilize headings to organize the content in your work.