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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/

For this discussion, review the following two resources from this unit’s Studies section:

Core Measures.
National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators.
As you know, quality indicators are common measures that apply to most patients or disease-specific measures that convey the quality of clinical care for patients with specific diagnoses. Using standard quality indicators to measure and report outcomes helps ensure that medical facilities are providing safe, effective, patient-centered care. We use both qualitative and quantitative data to explore our success with health care delivery and outcome measures. Interprofessional teams need to use this information to define, develop, and implement quality processes.

In this discussion, describe the quality indicators and specific data types used in your organization.

Define quality outcomes in your organization.
What have you learned from the specific quality indicators about your nursing practice and your role on an interprofessional team?
How have quality indicators helped you identify areas for improvement as a provider and team member?
Describe a decision you made based on quality indicators and how this affected the interprofessional team as a support system.

Organizational Care Goals for Interprofessionals
Reflect on the specific care goals in your organization. Think about how they are measured, monitored, and discussed with interprofessional team members. In addition, in your organization, how are goals to improve care chosen, and how do interprofessional team members collaborate in the setting, monitoring, and achieving of goals? For this discussion, consider the following

Identify specific care goals in your organization.

What guidelines does the organization follow to determine and measure patient outcomes and care goals?
How do interprofessional team members participate and collaborate in the setting, monitoring, and achievement of patient goals?
How do interprofessional team members effect change in the organization within the context of a specific outcome measure?

Mrs. Collins could have an injection in several joints in her body. Mrs. Collins did not have an adverse reaction to the medication, but what if she did? There could have been several errors that could have taken place that led to an adverse reaction. Explain at least 2 errors that could have caused an adverse reaction and the rights that were violated and why.

For your citation, you might use articles that show examples of proper technique for administering medication. You can also find articles that suggest how to report medication errors.

What are two drugs that you think should be available withouta prescription? In your explanation of why you selected those drugs, include general precautions and possible adverse reactions. 

For your citation, you might use articles that show examples of drugs that had been prescription drugs in the past but no longer require a prescription. You can also find articles about how other countries classify prescription drugs to determine if the same process can be applied in the U.S

This weeks assignment is STEP 2 Project Purpose Statement, Background & Significance and PICOt Formatted Clinical Project Question.

The student will answer the items below in a Word doc and submit to the assignment link.

Provide a title that conveys or describes the assignment.
Project Purpose Statement Provide a declarative sentence or two which summarizes the specific topic and goals of the project.
Background and Significance State the importance of the problem and emphasize what is innovative about your proposed project. Discuss the potential impact of your project on your anticipated results to the betterment of health and/or health outcomes.
PICOt formatted Clinical Project Questions Provide the Population, Intervention, Comparison, Expected Outcomes and timeframe for the proposed project.
References Cite references using APA 7th ed format.