XQ4001: Safety and Quality Fundamentals: Apply quality improvement and patient safety principles in care delivery.

Jamez

19 Mar 2025 • 7 min read

XQ4001: Safety and Quality Fundamentals: Apply quality improvement and patient safety principles in care delivery.

Assessment Rubric

Rubric Criteria	Masters Expectations	Achieves Expectations	Does Not Meet Expectations
Module 1: Foundation of Healthcare Safety
Complete the National Patient Safety Goals Template. Identified nursing specialty and practice. Learning Objective 1.2: Identify sources and applications of national safety and quality standards to guide nursing practice	The response clearly identifies nursing specialty and practice.	The response identifies nursing specialty and practice.	The response inaccurately and vaguely identifies nursing specialty and/or practice, or it is missing.
Identified the appropriate NPSG Chapter for current practice. Learning Objective 1.2: Identify sources and applications of national safety and quality standards to guide nursing practice	The response clearly identifies NPSG Chapter for current practice.	The response identifies NPSG Chapter for current practice.	The response inaccurately and vaguely identifies NPSG Chapter for current practice, or it is missing.
Identified the year, name, and number of each goal for NPSH 1. Explains the NPSG with a brief	The response comprehensively and clearly identifies the	The response identifies year, name, and number	The response inaccurately and vaguely identifies year, name,

Rubric Criteria

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description.

Learning Objective 1.2: Identify sources and applications of national safety and quality standards to guide nursing practice

year, name, and number of each goal for NPSG 1.

The response includes relevant, specific, and appropriate examples that fully support the description.

of each goal for NPSG 1.

The response includes relevant, specific, and appropriate examples that support the description.

and number of each goal for NPSG 1, or it is missing.

The response includes inaccurate and vague examples that do not support description, or it is missing.

Identified the year, name, and number of each goal for NPSH 2. Explains the NPSG with a brief description.

Learning Objective 1.2: Identify sources and applications of national safety and quality standards to guide nursing practice

The response comprehensively and clearly identifies the year, name, and number of each goal for NPSG 2.

The response includes relevant, specific, and appropriate examples that fully support the description.

The response identifies year, name, and number of each goal for NPSG 2.

The response includes relevant, specific, and appropriate examples that support the description.

The response inaccurately and vaguely identifies year, name, and number of each goal for NPSG 2, or it is missing.

The response includes inaccurate and vague examples that do not support description, or it is missing.

Identified the year, name, and number of each goal for NPSH 2. Explains the NPSG with a brief description.

Learning Objective 1.2: Identify sources and applications of national

The response comprehensively and clearly identifies the year, name, and number of each goal for NPSG 3.

The response identifies year, name, and number of each goal for NPSG 3.

The response includes relevant, specific, and

The response inaccurately and vaguely identifies year, name, and number of each goal for NPSG 3, or it is missing.

Rubric Criteria	Masters Expectations	Achieves Expectations	Does Not Meet Expectations
safety and quality standards to guide nursing practice	The response includes relevant, specific, and appropriate examples that fully support the description.	appropriate examples that support the description.	The response includes inaccurate and vague examples that do not support description, or it is missing.
Module 2: Improving Patient Outcomes
Identified one NPSG as a priority for a facility. Identification supported with evidence and experience. Learning Objective 2.3: Identify strategies to improve outcomes of patient care practice	The response comprehensively and clearly identifies one NPSG as a priority. The response includes relevant, specific, and appropriate examples that fully supports the identification.	The response identifies one NPSG as a priority. The response includes relevant, specific, and appropriate examples that support the identification.	The response inaccurately and vaguely identifies one NPSG as a priority, or it is missing. The response includes inaccurate and vague examples that do not support identification, or it is missing.
Reflected on the role of nurses and patient safety. Described how the NPSGs contribute to a culture of safety in healthcare. Learning Objective 1.3: Identify strategies to improve outcomes of patient care practice	The response comprehensively and clearly reflects on the role of nurses and culture of safety in healthcare. The response includes relevant, specific, and NPSG appropriate examples that fully supports the reflection.	The response reflects on the role of nurses and culture of safety in healthcare. The response includes relevant, specific, and NPSG appropriate examples that support the reflection.	The response inaccurately and vaguely reflects on the role of nurses and culture of safety in healthcare, or it is missing. The response includes inaccurate and vague NPSG examples that do not support reflection, or it is missing.

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Analyzed a real-world example of failure to meet one of the current NPSGs resulted in an adverse effect, discussing consequences and lessons learned. Learning Objective 1.4: Describe processes used in understanding causes of error	The response comprehensively and clearly analyzes a real- world example discussing consequences and lessons learned. The response includes relevant, specific, and appropriate examples that fully supports the analysis.	The response analyzes a real-world example discussing consequences and lessons learned. The response includes relevant, specific, and appropriate examples that support the analysis.	The response inaccurately and vaguely analyzes a real-world example discussing consequences and/or lessons learned, or it is missing. The response includes inaccurate and vague examples that do not support analysis, or it is missing.
Identified facility, safety grade, and three areas of improvement for a local hospital. Learning Objective 1.2: Identify sources and applications of national safety and quality standards to guide nursing practice	The response comprehensively and clearly identifies a facility, safety grade, and three areas of improvement for a local hospital.	The response identifies a facility, safety grade, and three areas of improvement for a local hospital.	The response inaccurately and vaguely identifies a facility, safety grade, and/or three areas of improvement for a local hospital, or it is missing.

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Identified three evidence-based interventions that might be implemented for the local hospital.

Learning Objective 1.3: Identify strategies to improve outcomes of patient care practice

Learning Objective 1.4: Describe processes used in understanding causes of error

The response comprehensively and clearly identifies three evidence-based interventions for implementation.

The response includes relevant, specific, and appropriate examples that fully supports the interventions.

The response identifies three evidence-based interventions for implementation.

The response includes relevant, specific, and appropriate examples that support the interventions.

The response inaccurately and vaguely identifies three

evidence-based interventions for implementation, or it is missing.

The response includes inaccurate and vague examples that do not support interventions, or it is missing.

Professional Writing Skills Assessment

Professional Writing

Masters Expectations

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Does not Meet Expectations

Context, Organization, Audience, Purpose, Tone, Style, Clarity, Flow

Demonstrates full awareness of writing context, audience, and purpose.

Content is consistently clear, logical, and well organized with appropriate sentence and paragraph structure.

Demonstrates some awareness of writing context, audience, and purpose.

Content is mostly clear, logical, and well organized with adequate sentence and paragraph structure.

Demonstrates minimal awareness of writing context, audience, and purpose.

Content lacks clarity, logic, and/or discernible organization and does not use proper sentence and paragraph structure.

Professional Writing	Masters Expectations	Achieves Expectations	Does not Meet Expectations
	Tone is highly professional, scholarly, and free of bias.	Tone is adequately professional, scholarly, and/or free of bias.	Tone is not professional/scholarly and/or contains bias.
	Style is consistently appropriate for a professional setting/workplace context.	Style is mostly appropriate for a professional setting/workplace context.	Style is inconsistent with a professional setting/workplace context.
	Free of spelling, punctuation, and grammar/syntax errors.	Contains few spelling, punctuation, and/or grammar/syntax errors.	Content contains significant spelling, punctuation, and/or grammar/syntax errors.
Originality, Source Credibility,	Writing fully reflects	Writing adequately reflects	Writing does not reflect
and Attribution of Ideas	original thought and	original thought and	original thought and
	paraphrasing and adheres	paraphrasing and adheres	paraphrasing and does not
	to reference requirements,	to reference requirements,	adhere to reference
	including the use of	including the use of	requirements, including the
	credible evidence to	credible evidence to	use of credible evidence to
	support a claim while	support a claim while	support a claim while
	incorporating appropriate	incorporating appropriate	incorporating appropriate
	citations and references in	citations and references in	citations and references in
	APA format.	APA format.	APA format.

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