Discuss Healthcare Quality Improvement
Discuss Healthcare Quality Improvement
Discuss: Healthcare Quality Improvement
Question Description
NSG/451: Professional Nursing Leadership Perspectives
Assignment Content
#1.
Leaders seek out change opportunities regularly. Innovation, critical thinking, and decision making are key to making an impact on an organization. This assignment is designed to help you look at aspects of your own clinical practice and become a change agent in your organization. Use your current or past experience to identify a change project to implement.
Step 1: Select a topic for a change project.
-Review the following resources for potential change topic or process ideas:
-Institute for Healthcare Improvement: Transforming Care at the Bedside
-Institute for Healthcare Improvement: Hospital Inpatient Waste Identification Tool
-For process change resources: TeamSTEPPS® Pocket Guide
Step 2: Identify the context for your change.
-Describe the setting where the change will take place. For example, clinical, insurance, home health, or public and community.
-Explain who is affected: patients, nurses, leadership, and other stakeholders in the organization.
Step 3: Review the literature to find possible solutions and evidence to address your topic.
-Research sources that guide evidence-based practice to improve outcomes related to your selected topic.
-Find a minimum of three peer-reviewed articles directly related to addressing your change topic.
Step 4: Create a draft implementation plan.
-Summarize each article to explain how the evidence you gathered will help address your change topic.
-Explain how you could use the information in the research to carry out the change in your identified setting.
Assignment: Healthcare Quality Improvement
Format your assignment as a 700- to 1,050-word paper or 10- to 15-slide presentation (use a background for the power points, use citations on power point, Use graphics and bold points for the main concepts on the slides. Finish with detailed speakers notes in the speakers notes area and cite those speakers notes. End with the reference slides, which are in the presentation.).
Include an APA-formatted reference page.
Submit your topic, review, and executive summary.
Resources
-Center for Writing Excellence
-Reference and Citation Generator
-Grammar and Writing Guides
-Learning Team Toolkit
#2.
On a separate paper:
Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:
Change in health care is often related to quality. This discussion introduces you to the three major driving forces of the current emphasis on quality.
Explore the Health and Medicine Division*, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and the National Quality Forum and explain each organization’s key focus and its mission, vision, and values. What impact will these organizations have on your daily work?
******(please cite and reference in APA format)*********
You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.
Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.