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Question Description
Assignment 3: Course Project, Part I: Identify Risk
For the Course Project, you will prepare a quality improvement program. Continuous quality improvement covers many areas. Throughout the course, pay particular attention to what attributes constitute a quality improvement team and what questions this team attempts to answer.
Select one of the following six high-risk areas for your project.
- Psychiatry
- Long-term care
- Home healthcare
- Emergency room
- Obstetrics and neonatology
- Surgery
Research the area you selected using at least three scholarly sources. Identify and classify all of the risks associated with these areas. Describe the nature of the risks to patients, healthcare professionals, and healthcare facilities. You may develop a table to present this information, create a Word document report, or a PowerPoint presentation.
Submit it to the W1: Assignment 3 Dropbox by Tuesday, March 8, 2016.
Name your document SUO_HCM4002_W1_A3_LastName_FirstInitial.doc.
On a separate page, cite all sources using the APA format.
| Assignment 3 Grading Criteria | Maximum Points |
| Identified all the risks of the selected area derived from three identified sources. | 20 |
| Classified the risks into groups. | 10 |
| Described nature of the risks to these groups: patients, healthcare professionals, and healthcare facilities. | 10 |
| Presented a structured document free of spelling and grammatical errors. | 5 |
| Cited sources using the APA format. | 5 |
| Total |
