QI Patient Care Quality and Safety Project
Identify a process at your
employment site that needs improvement. If you are not currently
working, use one from a previous work experience.
Describe the problem
process and address the elements below. This is a planning assignment so
you will be looking at what needs to be done and who the players are.
There is no implementation phase of this assignment.
Please limit this assignment to a total of 4-6 pages excluding Title and Reference page. Follow APA 7th Edition format.
To do:
Introduction: Introduce the problem that needs to be improved. (25 points)
Identify a current work related problem that is from one of the (Links to an external site.)Institute of Medicine’s 6 areas of competencies:
Patient Centered Care, Teamwork and Collaboration, Evidence-Based Practice, Quality Improvement, Safety and Informatics, linked here.
Review this information at IHI link on a quality improvement model. (Links to an external site.)
Identify why and what is the process breakdown: Clarify current
unit/organizational knowledge of the problem process and any insight on
how to improve the situation at hand.
Quality Improvement (QI) model: Identify and discuss a QI model (choose either Six Sigma or PDSA) to utilize. (25 points)
Discuss your chosen model.
Explain the process of implementing change and the importance of an outcome to measure.
Describe the inter-professional team that you would put together for
this process improvement. Who (by title or position) specifically needs
to be at the decision-making ‘table?’
Literature Review for EBP: Identify and analyze
evidence found in peer-reviewed literature (i.e. go to e-library to
find) that was shown to benefit this problem. (25 points)
Synthesize a minimum of three (3) scholarly articles from current
evidence-based literature findings that assist you in improving the
problem.
Describe how you would plan to implement a QI improvement process.
Include the outcome to measure improvement.
4. Conclusion. (10 points)
Summarize your paper with a concluding paragraph.
5. APA (15 points):
Paper
conforms to APA 7th edition format and demonstrates a professional
level of scholarship, which means it includes (but is not limited to)
items such as:
Title page in APA 7th edition format, double spaced
Section headings as emboldened in the instructions above.
Include introduction and conclusion paragraphs
Excellent grammar, paragraph and sentence organization with clear flow of thoughts.
All scholarly content cited. All citations should be listed in the reference list.
At
least three (3) Scholarly references are cited in the paper are in APA
format (minimum of three (3) scholarly articles plus textbook as
references).
Include
current evidence based practice literature findings that have assisted
in improving the process you have identified. (5 years or less.)
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