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Use Of Root Cause Analysis In Nursing Education: Best Practice From The Quality And Safety Officer, Elizabeth E. Cooper, Susan Pauly-O’Neill
Use Of Root Cause Analysis In Nursing Education: Best Practice From The Quality And Safety Officer, Elizabeth E. Cooper, Susan Pauly-O’Neill
Nursing and Health Professions Faculty Research and Publications
Teaching nursing students to be safe in practice is a key element to any nursing curriculum. This article will discuss the use of a Root Cause Analysis (RCO) framework with prelicensure nursing students, by the Quality and Safety Officer (QSO) in a School of Nursing and Health Professions, as a method to enhance transparency and improve patient safety. The aim is to provide a rationale for using this strategy, to identify the steps of a root cause analysis, to disclose barriers to its successful use, and to explore dissemination to the partnering healthcare environments.