The purpose of this essay is to enable you to critically evaluate current research about the topic ‘failure to rescue’ as related to the deteriorating patient in the acute healthcare environment. You will examine nursing strategies that can be used to prevent patient deterioration and that are instrumental in maintaining patient safety.
Task description:
For this task you are asked to write a 2000-word essay in which you critically evaluate ‘failure to rescue’ as it relates to the deteriorating patient in the acute healthcare environment.
Your evaluation must be underpinned by patient safety needs, and should include a discussion about incidence, consequences and nursing strategies as reflected in the current literature.
Your essay must include the following components:
a. An introductory paragraph that outlines the aim of the assignment.
b. A definition of the concept failure to rescue.
c. A discussion of the incidence & prevalence of adverse events that are linked to failure to rescue in the Australian acute healthcare environment.
Example and Explanation: Discuss adverse events in general for that section – you won’t have the word count to list the adverse events, simply identify the incidence and prevalence of adverse events, and the only specific one that you want to be mentioning is Failure to Rescue, as that’s the focus of the essay.
d. An analysis and evaluation of the consequences of failure to rescue for the patient; the patient’s family; and the health care system.
Example and Explanation: Death as a consequence for the patient, financial strain for the family, loss of trust in the healthcare system. basically, anything that you can identify as a consequence of failure to rescue, and explain how in what way the consequence occurs (with support of scholarly literature) i
e. A critical evaluation of TWO nursing strategies involving either the patient; the patient’s family or the health care system that may be used to prevent registered nurses from failing to rescue to maintain patient safety.
Example and Explanation: Explaining the strategies, discussing ways they are effective in addressing FTR, ways they might fall short, and in what specific ways they would reduce the prevalence of FTR.
Example of strategy:
• (Look up ) Failure to rescue as a nurse‐sensitive indicator by Mushta, Jane, good article
f. A conclusion summarising the central points of your essay.
Other elements:
● Word limits for all assignments needs to be strictly adhered to. The word limit for an assessment item includes in text citations, tables and quotations. The word limit does not include the reference list. Please note the marker will cease marking your submitted work once they have reached the allocated word limit.
● Ensure that you use scholarly literature (digitised readings, research articles, relevant Government reports and textbooks) that have been published in in the last 5 years from 2016 to 2021.
● You must include a Reference list on a separate page formatted to APA 7th style.
● Write in the third person and use academic language throughout.
