Imagine you have been asked to prepare and deliver an analysis of an existing QI initiative at your workplace. The QI initiative you choose to analyze should be related to a specific disease, condition, or public health issue of personal or professional interest to you. The purpose of the report is to assess whether the specific quality indicators point to improved patient safety, quality of care, cost and efficiency goals, and other desired metrics. Your target audience is nurses and other health professionals with specializations or interest in your chosen condition, disease, or public health issue.
In your report, you will:
Analyze a current QI initiative in a health care setting.
Identify what prompted implementation of the QI initiative.
Evaluate problems that arose during the initiative or problems that were not addressed.
Evaluate the success of a current QI initiative through recognized benchmarks and outcome measures as required to meet national, state, or accreditation requirements.
Identify the core performance measurements related to successful treatment or management of the condition.
Evaluate the impact of the quality indicators on the health care facility.
Incorporate interprofessional perspectives related to the success of actions used in the QI initiative as they relate to functionality and outcomes.
Recommend additional indicators and protocols to improve and expand outcomes of a current quality initiative.
Ensure your analysis conveys purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards.
This
document is designed to give you questions to consider and additional guidance
to help you successfully complete the Quality Improvement Initiative Evaluation
assignment. You may find it useful to use this document as a prewriting
exercise, an outlining tool, or a final check to ensure you have sufficiently
addressed all the grading criteria for this assignment. This document is a
resource to help you complete the assignment. Do not turn in this document as your assignment submission.
Remember,
you are analyzing a current QI initiative that is already in place. You are not
creating a new QI initiative (Assignment 3).
Analyze a current quality
improvement initiative in a health care setting.
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What prompted the implementation of the quality improvement
initiative?
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What problems were not addressed?
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What problems arose from the initiative?
Evaluate the success of a current
quality initiative through recognized benchmarks and outcome measures.
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What benchmarks or outcome measures were used to evaluate success?
Consider requirements for national, state, or accreditation standards.
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What was most successful?
Incorporate interprofessional
perspectives related to initiative functionality and outcomes.
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How does the interprofessional team contribute to the success of
the QI initiative?
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What are the perspectives of interprofessional team members
involved in the initiative?
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Who did you talk to? From what other professions? How did their
input impact your analysis?
Recommend additional indicators
and protocols to improve and expand outcomes of a current quality initiative.
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What process or protocol changes would you recommend?
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What added technologies would improve quality outcomes?
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What outcome measures are missing, or could be added?
Convey purpose, in an appropriate
tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to
organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards.
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Is your analysis logically structured?
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Is your analysis 5 double-spaced pages (not including title page
and reference list)?
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Is your writing clear and free from errors?
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Does your analysis include both a title page and reference list?
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Did you use a minimum of four sources? Were they published within
the last five years?
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Are they cited in current APA format throughout the analysis?
