socioeconomic status.
Your proposed issue should reflect a genuine need for improvement within your
selected health care organization. Through your Course Project, you will analyze this
issue and propose strategies to improve outcome(s), including the redesign of a related
process.
To prepare:
· Review the six quality improvement aims from the Institute of Medicine (IOM)
· Safe: Avoiding harm to patients from the care that is intended to help them.
· Effective: Providing services based on scientific knowledge to all who could benefit and refraining from providing services to those not likely to benefit (avoiding underuse and misuse, respectively).
· Patient-centered: Providing care that is respectful of and responsive to individual patient preferences, needs, and values and ensuring that patient values guide all clinical decisions.
· Timely: Reducing waits and sometimes harmful delays for both those who receive and those who give care.
· Efficient: Avoiding waste, including waste of equipment, supplies, ideas, and energy.
· Equitable: Providing care that does not vary in quality because of personal characteristics such as gender, ethnicity, geographic location, and socioeconomic status.
· Conduct a search of the literature to help you identify a specific issue that warrants attention and action to promote quality improvement.
· Consider what you have surmised thus far through your analysis of the organization
that you selected. What have you noticed that could help you identify a quality related need for improvement? For instance:
· What has captured your attention in meetings, reports, and/or daily activities?
· Have you noticed discrepancies between activities in the organization and
recommendations in the research literature, quality standards, and/or the
organization’s stated policies and procedures?
· If so, what do you think could be the reason(s) for variations or gaps between
what you have observed and what is recommended?
Identify a quality improvement issue that you would like to investigate for this project.
Note: Review the Course Project Overview/full instructions, located in the Week 3
Learning Resources, as needed to identify a quality improvement issue that is viable for
completing the full scope of this project. Once you receive a response from your
Instructor on the quality improvement issue that you submit, be sure to integrate his or
her feedback before moving forward with Section 3 of your Course Project.
To complete:
Write a brief description of the quality improvement issue that you would like to address
for your Course Project.
