Pediatric Emergency Department
Follow the instructions below to complete your assignment:
Describe how to generate positive change related to your priority problem. Include the change theory utilized and strategies/interventions formulated to accomplish your goal.
Discuss how you would proceed (actions/interventions/strategies) regarding the plan for change for your highest priority problem. How would you improve quality? How would you facilitate a change? What change theory (p. 62-64) would you use? How does the change theory you selected apply specifically to your plan for change with your highest priority problem?
Describe a creative teaching strategy(s) you would utilize to accomplish your goal. How would you present this to the staff? Hospital management? Would you use handouts, posters, flyers, video, group activity? Provide a visual of your strategy. Get creative.
State the goal of this quality improvement project (measurable).
Include a plan for evaluating the change occurring. Be sure to start with the overall QI goal and then include how you will/plan to measure the change. How would you measure the change? (i.e., Change over three time points? One month after implementation?, etc.) The goal of your plan MUST be measurable!
Example: Goal = Decrease hospital-acquired pressure ulcers by 30% in two months.
List specific QI measures which will evaluate the impact of your planned change/intervention. QI measures are the data you plan to collect. How does this data verify you have met your goal? You may have several QI measures depending on the problem you chose.
Example: QI Measures/Indicators:
Number of pressure ulcers two months prior to implementation.
Number of pressure ulcers two months after implementation.
Number of patients who received Meplex dressing.
