NURSE 397 Written Assignment Rubric
Instructions/Steps:
You should by now have reviewed all the resources listed or provided on the Week 3 Learning
Resources page.
Analyze the questions below considering the assigned readings and other resources you find.
Being able to clearly articulate your thoughts and ideas is almost as critical as the depth of those
thoughts and ideas. At this stage in your education, you have had ample opportunity to practice
your writing skills; therefore, the expectation is that this document will be professionally written
and meet the standards of APA formatting.
The Joint Commission. (2025). 2025 National patient safety goals. Retrieved from
https://www.jointcommission.org/standards_information/npsgs.aspx
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality [AHRQ]. (2021). Nursing and patient safety.
Retrieved from https://psnet.ahrq.gov/primers/primer/22/Nursing-and-Patient-Safety
● 1st Paragraph: Identify the facility type where you currently work OR if you are not
working, choose the type where you had a clinical nursing rotation. On the Joint
Commission’s Site (2023) of national patient safety goals, select the facility type where
you currently work. (If you are not working, select the type in which you had a clinical
rotation in nursing school) and state it. Identify 1 (no more) patient safety goal for that
type of facility and describe how the chosen goal specifically relates to the Commission's
goal of achieving zero harm within your institution. (Cite and reference)
● 2nd Paragraph: Identify if your chosen safety goal is a biomedical, technical or systems
process. (To do this you must first provide a cited definition of either biomedical,
technical, or systems process. Then state how your chosen safety goal relates to the
definition). (Cite and reference)
● 3rd Paragraph: Identify the 5 essential competencies for all health professions.(Cite and
reference) Choose the one that is most likely to support reaching your identified safety
goal and provide a cited definition. Then describe how this competency can support
reaching your identified goal. (Cite and Reference) Make sure you are using the correct
essential competencies for this paragraph.
● 4th Paragraph: How does nurse staffing and related conditions relate to the safety goal?
What can nursing do to address the safety goal? (Cite and reference).
Tips:
● This is an APA formatted paper and excluding the title and reference page, should
not be over 2 pages. In order to help comply with this limit, you should only include
what is listed above there and not have an introduction, abstract, or conclusion. You
should not have the title of the paper on the first page of the paper's body. Only use level
one headings.
● You need a minimum of 1 resource from this week’s readings and one current resource
from the UIC Library on the topic that is peer reviewed and < 3 years old.
