Surgical Care Improvement Project

The Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP) is a national quality partnership of organizations interested in improving surgical care by significantly reducing surgical complications. Partners in SCIP believe that a meaningful reduction in surgical complications depends on surgeons, anesthesiologists, perioperative nurses, pharmacists, infection control professionals, and hospital executives working together to intensify their commitment to making surgical care improvement a priority. If you were the administrator in charge of reducing errors related to surgery, what strategies would you implement that enable the different professionals (i.e., surgeons, anesthesiologists, preoperative nurses, pharmacists, infection control professionals, and hospital executives) to receive training?

What kind of training and development activities would you implement to change the culture of the hospital in regard to reducing patient care errors? What other HRM activities could be impacted by the training and collaboration? You will create a thread in response to the provided prompt for each forum. Each thread must be at least 600 words and demonstrate course-related knowledge.  Each thread and reply must also include a biblical integration and at least 2 peer-reviewed source citations in current APA format in addition to the text.

Surgical Care Improvement Project

The Research paper -Students are required to submit 2 research papers in the semester, the first due in week eight, the second in week15. Late papers will lose a grade for each day it is late.
Each paper will be a minimum of 15 pages in length.

Note that this is to be a critical analysis with research, and not a diary, personal opinions are elicited, but confessional meanderings are not. The degree to which a student may become extremely personal is the degree to which the ideas of the class can be brought to bear upon the utterances in a critical manner.

All Research papers are to be typed, in manuscript format. The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association is the source, in the Graduate Communication Arts Department for format and citation techniques. Note that this technique is somewhat different from the MLA style usually taught in most English classes. Each journal will outline the major ideas of the textbook assigned for that period and will relate those ideas to the needs of contemporary communication within the scope and techniques of the course. You should use outside research (a minimum of 10 sources) to examine and analyze the relevant points of the text.

Using the lecture notes to aid you, please expand on the ideas of the text by looking into the future of our industry and predicting its impact on our society.

No less than 15% and no more than 25% of your paper should be quoted material

Grading Rubric – Tips on writing your Research paper

The assignment for each paper will be graded on the following:

Five or so topics discussed in the text (each from a different chapter) applied to today’s world and the Mass Media – Lecture notes and discussions should be included –10 points

Your 10 resources and quotes from other experts’ -5 points

Update of the texts ideas- 5 points

New / original ideas/ Incite into impact on our society -5points

Points will be taken off for the following:

All papers are to be typed, in manuscript format. APA–minus 2 points if not done
Late- minus 1 point per day
15 pages-minus 1 point for each page under 15 pages
Approximately 20% of your paper should be quotations. Penalty for having more than 25% quotations or less than 15% could result in failure.