Please view the following Lorman webinar:
5 Steps for Managing Projects
There are two-parts to this assignment (paper and kanban chart).
Please submit the Kanban chart as the last page of your paper.
Part 1:
In a 3–5-page paper (including cover page and reference page), you will design a Quality Improvement Project (QUIP) for a healthcare agency of your choice at the micro level (unit). You will identify a need of the agency then design a QUIP proposal that is a workable solution for the identified need. Some ideas are improving patient satisfaction, increasing nursing staff morale, improving patient flow patterns in an ED, or a similar issue. This assignment does not require an abstract, however there should be a cover page and peer reviewed resources (reference page) to support your work.
The goal is to design a change project that is relatively cost neutral. This project is not about buying new equipment that might be needed or new computer software, which are capital expenditures. The focus should be on a needed quality improvement change that can be done within a nursing unit without major expense. Often, through collaboration with other departments or changing a process on a unit, quality improvements are made without requiring major expenditures.
Use this format for your proposal plan:
Introduction: (Urgency Creation)
Identify the type of agency and unit.
Identified agency need, providing a brief history surrounding the need.
Body of the Paper:
Clearly written goal statement. (Create a Vision)
The video by Dr. Mike Evans does a great job about explaining how to create a goal statement and objectives as well as making the change happen using PDSA. So, strong goal statements identify what the change is going to be: reduce falls, increase handwashing, reduce CLABSI and other ideas. In order to know if you are successful, it needs to be specific and have a timeframe. For example, Falls will be reduced by 30% on the medical-surgical unit at St. Francis Hospital by January 30, 2024.
2-3 measurable objectives.
Your objectives are the steps you take to reach your goal. So, in order to reduce falls you may want to:
Find one evidence-based falls reduction curriculum by December 15th.
95% of staff will participate in the fall’s reduction course by December 30th.
100% of nurses will identify 3 strategies they can take during their shift to reduce falls in their patients by December 30th.
You can collect data to see if you are meeting the objectives and making progress toward your goals.
Identify a time frame. (Let the Change Mature)
Change theory framework used and application to the proposed change. (Integrate the Change)
Example: Falls reduction plan, let’s apply Lewin’s change theory:
Unfreeze: Let’s have a meeting to talk with staff about how the amount of falls the patients are experiencing is high. Let’s get a sense of what the staff think might work or might not work. What are the obstacles that need to be overcome.
Change: Implement your fall’s reduction plan. Have the kick-off meeting, create the rounding policy, the use of bed alarms, the taking patients to the restroom hourly and any other strategies you have found in the EBP literature.
Refreezing: After collecting your post-intervention data, makes the changes to the policies and now it is standard operating procedure.
Key stake holders and their role in the change process. (Build a Team)
Implementation of the change. (Communication of Visions & Removing Obstacles)
Suggestion: Communicate the vision/goal and let everyone involved know about what is going to happen during the QI project cycle. You want to collect data, meet with staff, implement your intervention, collect more data, celebrate your successes!
part 2
Successful implementation of a quality improvement project is monitoring and controlling of all the tasks and metrics to ensure that the project is within scope (goals & objectives), on time, within budget and has a minimal risk for failure. The monitoring and controlling process is continuously performed throughout the life of the project and is the responsibility of the project team leader.
Kanban Chart….. What is Kanban? – Agile Coach (2019) – YouTube
Put your name and QUIP title on the top of the Kanban Chart and add it as the last page(s) of your paper.
Here is an example: LINK
Kanban is a popular framework used to implement agile software development. It requires real-time communication of capacity and full transparency of work.
Work items are represented visually on a kanban board, allowing team members to see the state of every piece of work at any time.
Using the Kanban method for workflow management can help you significantly with prioritizing tasks precisely.
It will guide you to arrange tasks based on their importance and to resolve urgent issues as fast as possible.
Please view the Kanban sample attach.
