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Assignment:
Quality Improvement Initiative Evaluation
Please analyze of an existing quality improvement initiative at your workplace. Initiative you choose to analyze should be related to specific disease, condition, or public health issue of personal or professional interest to you.
Because nurses are critical to the delivery of high-quality, efficient health care, it is essential that they develop the proficiency to review, evaluate performance reports, and be able to effectively communicate outcome measures related to quality initiatives. The nursing staff's perspective and the need to collaborate on quality care initiatives are fundamental to patient safety and positive institutional health care outcomes.
Answer these questions too:
- How does your organization manage and report on adverse events or near-miss incidents?
- What data from your organization's dashboards help inform adverse events and near-miss incidents?
- What additional metrics or technology are you aware of that would help ensure patient safety?
- What changes would you like to see implemented to help the interprofessional team better understand data use and data trends as quality and safety improvement tools?
Some Links are below to help you to complete this task:
These resources explore how quality initiatives are applied in clinical settings.
Vachon, B., Desorcy, B., Gaboury, I., Camirand, M., Rodrigue, J., Quesnel, L., . . . Grimshaw, J. (2015). Combining administrative data feedback, reflection and action planning to engage primary care professionals in quality improvement: Qualitative assessment of short term program outcomes. BMC Health Services Research, 15, 1-8.
Abdallah, A. (2014). Implementing quality initiatives in healthcare organizations: Drivers and challenges. International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, 27(3), 166-181.
This article addresses competing quality improvement projects in organizations.
Nyström, M. E., Garvare, R., Westerlund, A., & Weinehall, L. (2014). Concurrent implementation of quality improvement programs: Coordination or conflict? International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, 27(3), 190-208.
Benchmarks for Quality Indicators
These databases provide recognized benchmarks for quality indicators.
Montalvo, I. (2007).The national database of nursing quality indicators. Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, 12(3), 1-11.
The Joint Commission. (2017). National patient safety goals.