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Problem
You are a graduate registered nurse working on a surgical ward in a large metropolitan hospital. As an emerging clinical leader, you have been asked by your Nurse Unit Manager to propose a quality improvement initiative to
address one of the following patient safety risk concerns:
• Medication errors
• Human errors
• Healthcare-associated infections
• Patient falls
• Venous thromboembolism prevalence
Use the Quality Improvement Proposal template provided and respond to the following in your proposal:
I. Identify the patient safety risk concern that you would like to address in a change initiative. Provide a purpose, background, two specific and achievable objectives and evaluation of change concepts, inclusive of specific evaluation practices for your change initiative proposal. Use current literature to support your proposal. Get the instant assignment help.
II. Stakeholder engagement is a pivotal aspect of quality improvement. Could you identify the main stakeholders you need to engage in your change initiative proposal, and critically discuss effective communication strategies with them?
III. Identify the leadership style that you will adopt in this innovation for change. Analyse how the two specific attributes of this leadership style would benefit and guide the success of this quality improvement proposal.
IV. Identify two possible barriers to change, one individual barrier and one organisational barrier that you could encounter when implementing change. Critically discuss using current literature.