quality improvement
Prepare an 8 page data analysis and quality improvement initiative proposal based on a health issue of professional interest to you. The audience for your analysis and proposal is the nursing staff and the interprofessional team who will implement the initiative.
“A basic principle of quality measurement is: If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it” (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2013).
Health care providers are on an endless quest to improve both care quality and patient safety. This unwavering commitment requires hospitals and care givers to increase their attention and adherence to treatment protocols to improve patient outcomes. Health informatics, along with new and improved technologies and procedures, are at the core of virtually all quality improvement initiatives. The data gathered by providers, along with process improvement models and recognized quality benchmarks, are all part of a collaborative, continuing effort. As such, it is essential that professional nurses are able to correctly interpret, and effectively communicate information revealed on dashboards that display critical care metrics.
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
· Competency 2: Plan quality improvement initiatives in response to routine data surveillance.
· Outline a QI initiative proposal based on a selected health issue and supporting data analysis.
· Competency 3: Evaluate quality improvement initiatives using sensitive and sound outcome measures.
· Analyze data to identify a health care issue or area of concern.
· Competency 4: Integrate interprofessional perspectives to lead quality improvements in patient safety, cost effectiveness, and work-life quality.
· Integrate interprofessional perspectives to lead quality improvements in patient safety, cost effectiveness, and work-life quality.
· Competency 5: Apply effective communication strategies to promote quality improvement of interprofessional care.
· Apply effective communication strategies to promote quality improvement of interprofessional care.
· Communicate evaluation and analysis in a professional and effective manner, writing content clearly and logically with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
Assessment Instructions
Preparation
In this assessment, you will propose a quality improvement (QI) initiative proposal based on a health issue of professional interest to you. The QI initiative proposal will be based on an analysis of dashboard metrics from a health care facility. You have one of two options:
Option 1
If you have access to dashboard metrics related to a QI initiative proposal of interest to you:
· Analyze data from the health care facility to identify a health care issue or area of concern. You will need access to reports and data related to care quality and patient safety. If you work in hospital setting, contact the quality management department to obtain the data you need.
· You will need to identify basic information about the health care setting, size, and specific type of care delivery related to the topic that you identify. You are expected to abide by HIPAA compliance standards.
Option 2
If you do not have access to a dashboard or metrics related to a QI initiative proposal:
· You may use the hospital data set provided in the media piece titled Vila Health: Data Analysis. You will analyze the data to identify a health care issue or area of concern.
· You will follow the same instructions and provide the same deliverables as your peers who select Option 1.
Instructions
Analyze dashboard metrics related to the selected issue.
· Provide the selected data set in the proposal.
· Assess the stability of processes or outcomes.
· Delineate any problematic variations or performance failures.
· Evaluate QI initiatives on the selected health issue with existing quality indicators from other facilities, government agencies, and non-governmental bodies on quality improvement.
· Analyze challenges that meeting prescribed benchmarks can pose for a heath care organization and the inter professional team.
· Outline a QI initiative proposal based on the selected health issue and data analysis.
· Identify target areas for improvement.
· Define what processes can be modified to improve outcomes.
