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complete regarding creating a culture of safety in response to an adverse event in healthcare.

For this assignment, you will access the Library to research a specific case of an adverse event that occurred in healthcare. Using the case that you have identified; you will write a research paper exploring the impact and importance of creating a safety culture in healthcare organizations.

Your research paper shall:

  • Describe the adverse event that you selected as your case study. Include details of the patient outcome and the contributing factors involved in the adverse event.
  • Evaluate the impact and importance of creating a patient safety culture in healthcare organizations.
  • Create an improvement plan to address the issues that were identified in your adverse event case. Your plan shall include analysis of best practices in safety culture.

Your well-written paper should meet the following requirements:

  • 10 pages in length, not including the title or reference pages.
  • Formatted per APA 7th edition and University standards.
  • Provide support for your work with in-text citations from a minimum of 8 scholarly articles. Two of these sources may be from the class readings, textbook, or lectures, but two must be external.
  • Provide full APA references for the sources used on a reference page, along with appropriate in-text citations.
  • Utilize headings to organize the content in your work.