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Unit 3 – Individual Project (175 points)
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An organization’s administrator received a complaint that the residents were abusing each other at the facility. The situation is becoming chaotic both day and night. Some of the residents share rooms, whereas others go to their peer’s rooms while wandering; others push their peers down in the hallway. These disturbances have placed a burden on staff members, creating staff shortages. There have been cases of resident falls and injuries, resulting in an increase of 50% over the last month. Residents who wandered out of the facility were returned to the facility by the police. The other day, a relative of one of the injured residents reported to the state, demanding an explanation from the facility.
The board of directors is concerned with this trend and requests stringent risk mitigation policies and practices be put in place immediately. In a meeting, the board disclosed that the administration had spent nearly a million dollars settling liability cases, which they are not prepared to do again moving forward.
With the scenario in mind, prepare a risk assessment that addresses the following details:
Discuss the current risk areas in a typical residential care facility.
How do these risk areas affect the quality of care and life of the resident population?
What quality improvement practices would you adopt to help mitigate some of these risks?
Share the housing arrangements that you would put in place to help alleviate some of these problems.
Describe how loneliness influences residents’ quality of life.
Explain the risk mitigation process.
Discuss how risk management contributes to sound decision making.
What are the barriers and challenges to risk management in a long-term care (LTC) facility?
Identify the benefits of addressing these barriers and challenges promptly.
Use the following template: Unit 3 Assignment.
Deliverable Requirements
Write a risk assessment to share with the board of directors, explaining how these problems have been addressed.
Your assessment must be at least 5 pages in length with at least 5 peer-reviewed references.
Submitting your assignment in APA format means, at a minimum, you will need the following:
Title page: Remember the running head. The title should be in all capitals.
Length: 5 pages minimum
Body: This begins on the page following the title page and must be double-spaced (be careful not to triple- or quadruple-space between paragraphs). The typeface should be 12-pt. Times Roman or 12-pt. Courier in regular black type. Do not use color, bold type, or italics, except as required for APA-level headings and references. The deliverable length of the body of your paper for this assignment is 5 pages. In-body academic citations to support your decisions and analysis are required. A variety of academic sources is encouraged.
Reference page: References that align with your in-body academic sources are listed on the final page of your paper. The references must be in APA format using appropriate spacing, hanging indent, italics, and uppercase and lowercase usage as appropriate for the type of resource used. Remember, the Reference page is not a bibliography but a further listing of the abbreviated in-body citations used in the paper. Every referenced item must have a corresponding in-body citation.
Please submit your assignment.
For assistance with your assignment, please use your text, Web resources, and all course materials.
Grading Criteria
Points Possible
Deliverable requirements addressed; understanding of material and writer’s message and intent are clear.
50
Scholarly research that supports the writer’s position is properly acknowledged and cited, and direct quotations may not exceed 10% of the word count of the body of the assignment deliverable (excluding title page, table of contents, tables, exhibits, appendices, and reference pages). Inclusion of plagiarized content will not be tolerated and may result in adverse academic consequences.
40
Critical thinking: Position is well justified, there is logical flow, and examples are provided where appropriate.
40
Structure: Includes an introduction and conclusion and proper paragraph format and reads as a polished academic paper or professional presentation, as appropriate for the required assignment deliverable.
20
Mechanical: No spelling, grammatical, or punctuation errors.
15
APA: Deliverable is cited properly according to the APA Publication Manual.
10
Total
175