Root Cause Analysis employed to improve critical thinking skills

To provide students critical thinking skills the US University of Michigan School of Nursing included student participation in an actual root cause analysis (RCA) in its leadership and management course. The faculty developed a pilot RCA project in which students completed an RCA on a nursing sensitive indicator. RCA teams met throughout the project to…

BPIR Categories

9.4.2 Develop education and training programs.
9.4.6 Develop management/leadership competencies
10.2.4 Use analytical techniques on data