Title

Use of Root Cause Analysis in Nursing Education: Best Practice from the Quality and Safety Officer

Authors

Elizabeth E. Cooper, University of San FranciscoFollow
Susan Pauly-O’Neill, University of San FranciscoFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2015

Abstract

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.

Comments

Published by Sciedu Press

Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/jnep.v5n7p23

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

DOI

10.5430/jnep.v5n7p23

Recommended Citation

Cooper, E. Pauly-O’Neill, S. (2015). Use of root cause analysis in nursing education: Best practice from the quality and safety officer. Journal of Nursing Education and Practice, 5(7), 23-29. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/jnep.v5n7p23