deliver an analysis of an ongoing quality improvement initiative in your workplace. The initiative you analyze must relate to a specific disease, condition, or public health issue of personal or professional interest to you. The purpose of your analysis is to assess whether specific quality indicators point to improved patient safety, quality of care, cost and efficiency goals, and other desired metrics. Your audience consists of nurses and selected health care professionals with specializations or interests in your selected condition, disease, or issue. You hope to inform and garner support for the initiative from your audience.
Instructions
• Analyze a current quality improvement initiative in a health care or practice setting according to strategic organizational initiatives.
o Explain the rationale behind the QI improvement initiative. What prompted the initiative?
o Detail problems that were not addressed and any issues that arose from the initiative.
• Evaluate the success of a current quality improvement initiative according to recognized national benchmarks.
o Analyze the benchmarks used to evaluate success. Which aspects of the initiative were most successful? What outcome measures are missing or could be added?
o Incorporate one appropriate supporting visual (such as a graph or chart) that showcases the most critical aspect of this presentation.
• Incorporate interprofessional perspectives related to initiative functionality and outcomes.
• Integrate the perspectives of interprofessional team members involved in the initiative. Who did you talk to? What are their professions? How did their perspectives impact your analysis?
• Recommend additional indicators and protocols to improve and expand outcomes of a quality initiative.
o Identify specific process or protocol changes as well as technologies that would improve quality outcomes.
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