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Outcome 5 Apply quality and safety measures to improve patient outcomes.Hospitals engage in many collaborative activities to improve quality and safety of the care they provide. Such examples are infection control, reducing health care disparities, quality measurements, and accreditation. As you can see the topic of quality and safety can entail many components, one such component is being socially and politically active.       This week’s assignment is to write a Health Policy Memo on a relevant health policy topic. Think of writing a letter in memo format to your representative in Congress or someone in a policy making position ( such as president of nursing, board of directors, mayor, chief of police, school board etc. Here is the assignment:The purpose of your memo is to inform the policy maker about a specific policy issue and persuade him or her about a needed change or action.Start by:Choosing  a health policy issue – there are many- here are some examples: such as health care reform, patient safety and quality metrics, nursing education, end of life, gun control, food and safety, mental health,  environmental issues, nurse staffing ratios, tobacco legislation, air pollution, restraints, & increase in  violence for health care worker. Please reach out to the professor if you need assistance. Remember there are many topics – this list is just a few. Please do not use previous work from another course. Who are you addressing your letter too?Include the purpose of the memo ( what is the issue, what course of action is recommended,  include supporting statement why your topic needs to be addressed) You may begin in letter format, and include the reference page at the end.  You do not have to use in-text citations in this assignment The main post should be  a one page letter, double spaced. Use scholarly references, support your statements  use proper APA for the end reference page and respond to one colleague’s post. E-portfolio-  Once graded and edited, this Health care policy Memo can be added to your Wix Portfolio under Outcome 5. Please write a quick introduction for it when you add it there. Additional Materials: Upon completion of this module, students should reflect on Outcome 5: Apply quality and safety measures to improve patient outcomes1. Discuss the influence of historical and cultural context on the concept of advocacy 2. Discuss how to be politically active in nursing 3. Discuss how quality and safety impacts  patient outcomes Assignments for this module include1. Watch video, read articles and submit your main Discussion post (5)2. Write and submit your script ( bullet form is fine)  that you will use to narrate your Lifelong Learning Presentation. Make sure you practice reading it so that you know it will be about 10-minutes long.* the Broad learning outcomes once again are- this is important !!BROAD LEARNING OUTCOMESThe Gen-Ed curriculum at Labouré College is designed to facilitate your growth in five broad areas: 1) knowledge of the physical, natural, social, spiritual, and aesthetic worlds; 2) knowledge of self; 3) historical consciousness; 4) appreciation for diversity; and 5) theological understanding.  Think critically and solve problems within the humanities and social science domains;Cooperate with others, which requires understanding and tolerance of racial, ethnic, religious, and cultural differences; and managing conflicts and disagreements with civility;Communicate their ideas clearly, coherently, and persuasively both orally and in writing; use intrapersonal communication to facilitate problem-solving and self-reflection; and listen and share ideas respectfully across cultures;Act, including: empowerment through the development of personal agency skills: civic engagement; finding answers to questions through mastery of information resources; and being lifelong learners; andValue, including: personal/social responsibility; self-worth; ethics/morality; personal happiness; and empathy. 3. Reach out to the writing coaches: Patient Safety: A)  Published:September 14, 2019DOI:londonessays.com B)  The first-ever World Patient Safety Day is taking place on Sept 17, 2019. Every day, countless patients worldwide are put at risk by unsafe care and end up requiring treatment f

or ailments caused by the very system that was supposed to help them get better. Protecting patients from errors, injuries, accidents, and infections is an essential goal for every health system, but no health system has so far successfully addressed patient safety.Some of the statistics proffered by WHO to highlight patient safety are striking. In low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), 134 million adverse events per year are directly attributable to unsafe care. These adverse events—including misdiagnosis, hospital-acquired infections, and medical errors—lead to 2·6 million unnecessary deaths. Worldwide, the risk of patient death because of a preventable medical accident is one in 300. One in ten patients suffer injury while receiving health care, and 15% of all hospital expenses are incurred as a result of treating failures in patient safety.Patient safety hinges on quality of care. The Lancet Global Health’s 2018 Commission highlighted the need for “high-quality health systems that optimise health care in each context by consistently delivering care that improves or maintains health”. It feels obvious to state that a health-care system should aim to improve the health of those accessing it. Similarly, all health professionals expect that patients will have their condition improved by health care. However, the data compiled by WHO should be a wake-up call as they would be in any other industry. So what can be done?First, do no harm. The safety of patients must be the paramount concern of professionals and the systems they work in. Rather than a platitude, this ask is an exhortation to strengthen systems, build better infrastructure, and value strong leadership. Reporting in US hospitals shows some health-care-associated infections can be reduced by as much as 70% with proper patient safety interventions that include standardised clinician education, proper notification processes, and strict hand hygiene procedures. However, the WHO hand hygiene guidelines suggest compliance with proper hygiene can be as low as 40%. Hence, a greater effort needs to be made in monitoring and ensuring that basic practices of patient safety are strong and robust across all institutions, no matter how obvious the need for such procedures.Second, health professionals must recognise that patient safety is a two-way partnership. Patients must be involved—indeed be central—in their own care. The myriad ways inadvertent harm can be done to patients indicate that everyone, from policy maker and health advocate to caregiver and health worker, holds a vital stake in patient safety. Indeed, evidence suggests that involving patients, service users, and carers in important decisions relating to care and treatment strengthens patient safety and is the best way for patients to achieve a positive outcome. As WHO comments, “safe health care starts with good communication”.Finally, awareness of the burden that patient safety requirements place on LMICs is needed: addressing all improvements necessary for increased patient safety require resources. Two-thirds of all adverse events resulting from unsafe care occur in LMICs. Health professionals in high-income countries must ask themselves what they can do, not just to promote patient safety in their own system but also to offer outreach, support, resources, and expertise to LMICs bearing the burden of raised patient safety standards, rapidly changing disease patterns, and expectations of achieving the same development goals.Recognising the importance of patient safety worldwide is something that strikes right at the philosophical heart of health care. A Comment in this issue highlights how patient safety is now a core part of the move towards universal health coverage and states, importantly, that “addressing systemic, organisational, cultural and behavioural drivers of patient harm remains extremely challenging and a lot of known problems remain unsolved”. World Patient Safety Day is a prompt to everyone involved in care to examine their role in contributing to these drivers. In the treatment of immediate illness, health-care systems must offer best practice and consistent treatment for all patients, and at all levels, to ensure further damage is prevented. Video Nurses on strike:  1) londonessays.com