Colorado HCM370 Week 6 - Wrong Site Surgery Memo

HCM 370 Colorado State University Global Campus Wk 6 Wrong Site Surgery Memo Paper

OPTION #1: WRONG SITE SURGERY MEMO

First, read the description of the wrong-site surgery event in Critical Concept 8.2 and the root causes identified by the team who conducted the RCA.

Then, conduct a literature review and Internet search for risk reduction strategies aimed at preventing wrong-site surgeries.

For this assignment, you will write a memo addressed to the Chief Nursing Officer. Explain and justify four to six specific strategies that would best prevent a similar event from occurring.

The memo should be well-written and meet the following requirements:

• Be two pages (single-spaced) in length plus a title page and a reference page
• Includes at least three references from the peer-reviewed articles. The CSU Global Library is a good place to find peer-reviewed articles.
• Conforms to CSU Global Writing Center (Links to an external site.)