Quality Improvement Initiative Evaluation

Quality Improvement Initiative Evaluation
Professional Context
Too often, discussions about quality health care, care costs, and outcome measures take place in isolationeach group talking among themselves about results and enhancements. 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.

Instructions
You have been asked to prepare and deliver an analysis of an existing quality improvement initiative at your workplace. The QI initiative you choose to analyze should be related to a specific disease, condition, or public health issue of personal or professional interest to you. The purpose of the report is to assess whether or not specific quality indicators point to improved patient safety, quality of care, cost and efficiency goals, and other desired metrics. Your target audience is nurses and other health professionals with specializations or interests in your chosen condition, disease, or public health issue.

In your report you will:

Define the disease.
Analyze how the condition is managed.
Identify the core performance measurements related to successful treatment or management of the condition.
Evaluate the impact of the quality indicators on the health care facility.
Be sure to address the bullet points below in your analysis, as they correspond to grading criteria in the scoring guide. You may also want to read the Quality Improvement Initiative Evaluation Scoring Guide to better understand the performance levels that relate to each grading criterion.
Additionally, be sure to review the Guiding Questions: Quality Improvement Initiative Evaluation document, linked in the resources, for additional clarification about things to consider when creating your assignment.

Analyze a current quality improvement initiative in a health care setting
Evaluate the success of a current quality improvement initiative through recognized benchmarks and outcome measures.
Incorporate interprofessional perspectives related to initiative functionality and outcomes.
Recommend additional indicators and protocols to improve and expand outcomes of a quality initiative.

Communicate evaluation and analysis in a professional and effective manner, writing content clearly and logically with the correct use of grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
Integrate relevant sources to support arguments, correctly formatting citations and references using current APA style.

Resources:

https://www.nursingworld.org/practice-policy/nurse-staffing/

https://www.jointcommission.org/standards/national-patient-safety-goals/

Best Practices in Teaching

Best Practices in Teaching
For this discussion, you will:

Provide a short summary of the current best practices in both a traditional environment and an online environment as identified in the nursing research literature.
Compare and contrast traditional and online teaching practices.
Select at least two teaching strategies that you feel exemplify best practices that could be used in the Vila Health: Teaching Strategies challenge. Provide evidence-based support for your choices.
Discuss how the teaching strategies you selected might facilitate critical thinking.

http://www.nln.org/docs/default-source/about/archived-position-statements/innovation-in-nursing-education-a-call-to-reform-pdf.pdf?sfvrsn=4

Teaching Strategies

Teaching Strategies
For this assignment, write a paper in which you address the following:

Utilize your assigned reading from this week and your independent research to write three learning outcomes for your course project, which you began planning in Unit 1.
Explain how these outcomes are reflected in the course content and representative of what is expected of the learner at course completion.
Based on your course content, outcomes, objectives, and learner population, evaluate at least three learning strategies that could be used.
Defend why these are the most appropriate strategies for your course and audience.
Describe the advantages of using your selected strategies.
Use the literature to support the choices you are making.
What possible barriers to learning might you encounter?
What strategies would be most applicable in overcoming those barriers?
How will your strategies keep learners motivated?

Staffing Ratios

This discussion will be based on two readings from this unit’s Studies section:

Associations Between Characteristics of the Nurse Work Environment and Five Nurse-Sensitive Patient Outcomes in Hospitals: A Systematic Review of Literature.
The American Nurses Association Web site section, Nurse Staffing.
In both readings, the issue of staff-to-patient ratio is explored. Staffing is a problem that encompasses patient safety, cost effectiveness, and work-life quality. In this discussion, comment on the following.

Discuss the minimum nurse-to-patient ratio where you practice. How do you reconcile staffing levels and patient outcomes with the financial constraints of most health care facilities?
How do staffing patterns impact patient care beyond the issues mentioned here?
If you live in a state with nurse staffing laws, in what ways do these laws benefit nurses and patients?

Resources:
https://www.nursingworld.org/practice-policy/nurse-staffing/