Executive Summary on Previously Written Gap Analysis- Healthcare

Write an executive summary, 4–5 pages in length, of existing outcome measures related to a performance issue uncovered in your gap analysis that you intend to address. I will forward my original paper for review to follow:

As a nurse leader, you must be able to access, identify, and describe outcome measures as they relate to safety and quality problems in your organization.

This assessment provides an opportunity to examine existing outcome measures, assess their strategic value, and present your findings to executive leaders in a manner that will help you gain their support.

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

Competency 1: Analyze quality and safety outcomes from an administrative and systems perspective.
Explain key quality and safety outcomes.
Analyze the relationships between a systemic problem in an organization and specific quality and safety outcomes.
Competency 2: Determine how outcome measures promote quality and safety processes within an organization.
Determine how specific outcome measures support strategic initiatives related to a quality and safety culture.
Competency 3: Determine how specific organizational functions, policies, processes, procedures, norms, and behaviors can be used to build reliability and high-performing organizations.
Determine the strategic value to an organization of specific outcome measures.
Competency 4: Synthesize the various aspects of the nurse leader’s role in developing, promoting, and sustaining a culture of quality and safety.
Determine how a leadership team would support the implementation and adoption of proposed practice changes affecting specific outcomes.
Competency 5: Communicate effectively with diverse audiences, in an appropriate form and style, consistent with applicable organizational, professional, and scholarly standards.
Write clearly and concisely, using correct grammar and mechanics.
Integrate relevant and credible sources of evidence to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.