You have been assigned the collateral duty of quality improvement (QI) nurse for the medical surgical hospital unit where you currently work. Your unit manager has asked you to select a problem to address with a QI project. You will use applied statistics to solve this problem.
Assessment Deliverable
Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper summarizing your selected problem and associated intervention plan that includes a title page and references page and addresses the following:
Using your current clinical setting, decide what QI problem you would like to tackle (e.g., patient satisfaction, fallrates, surgical site infections, ventilator acquired pneumonia).
Provide a clinical question you would like to answer (e.g., “In adult ICU patients who are mechanically ventilated, does using a prone positioning protocol improve oxygenation and decrease time on the ventilator over a 30-day period?” OR “With homecare patients who are receiving multiple medications, does the use of pill packets for prescribed medications improve patient medication adherence compared to a multiple-medication pill tray?”).
Identify an evidence-based intervention you could reasonably implement and evaluate (e.g., fall risk signage, wound care dressing protocol, prone position protocol). Briefly, describe the intervention.
Describe the data you will collect. Include a description of the level of measurement of your data (i.e., nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio).
Discuss over what period you will collect your data and why (e.g., 14 days, 30 days, 60 days).
Explain how you might present a summary of your data to demonstrate meaningful change (statistical table or chart).
Include a minimum of 4 scholarly references, some suggested ones are:
Williams, E. (2018). Understanding variation: Part 1- the run chart. Current Problems in Pediatric and Adolescent Health Care, 48(7), 186-190.
Melnyk, B. M., & Fineout-Overholt, E. (2023). Evidence-based practice in nursing and healthcare: A guide to best practice (5th ed.). Wolters Kluwer.
Institute of Medicine. (1995). Nursing, health, and the environment: Strengthening the relationship to improve the public’s health (A. M. Pope, M. A. Snyder, & L. H. Mood, Eds.) The National Academies Press. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK232399/
Cite your sources and format the paper according to APA 7th Edition guidelines.
