NURS 8302 – Leading Organizations for Quality Improvement Initiatives

Change is the law of life. —John F. Kennedy For this Discussion, compare change management and change leadership. Reflect on the potential impact of leadership approaches on change, and consider how leadership may influence change in healthcare organizations and nursing practice. To Prepare: By Day 3 of Week 11 Post a brief comparison between change […]

Week 11: Evaluating and Sustaining Change What does it mean to evaluate and sustain change? Quality improvement initiatives require the evaluation of changes, as well as the ability to sustain the changes long term. This requires effective leadership approaches to motivate and inspire, as well as the ability to adequately measure the value and function […]

Week 10: Transformational and Leadership Strategies to Improve Patient Safety and Quality Transformational leadership inspires others to discover meaning and purpose in relation to their work, in addition to growth and maturity. —Smith, 2011, p. 44 Being a leader is so much more than just managing the day-to-day and taking the reins on a project. […]

Week 9: Organizational and Leadership Strategies to Improve Patient Safety and Quality What role do leaders have in improving patient care? Why must leaders serve as the driving force for change? How can quality leadership translate to quality improvement for patient safety and quality? Throughout this course, you have examined quality improvement models and methods […]

Week 8: The Application of Quality Improvement Models in Organizations and Systems The meta-analysis of eight studies of inpatient deaths, published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, puts the number of preventable deaths at just over 22,000 a year in the United States, instead of the oft-cited 44,000-98,000 estimate of a landmark 1999 study […]

Week 7: The Role of Teams in Quality Improvement The success of any quality improvement (QI) endeavor depends on the team working on it. It is not the number of people, but rather how well they function and work together, that makes a team successful. QI team members must respect each other, and share common […]

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Organizational culture is the shared way of thinking or feeling in a given organization. This culture creates the dynamic for a willingness to change and/or improve. For example, if an organizational culture is one in which change is welcomed to improve and all voices are encouraged to be shared, the implementation of a quality improvement […]

Week 6: Determining Organizational Priorities for Quality Improvement To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. —Winston Churchill Understanding the need and importance of change is the first step in accepting the need for continual change. Healthcare will never be a stagnant industry. Change is a part of the framework, and […]

Week 5: The Patient’s Experience in Healthcare For every action, there is a reaction, and among the reactions to the increased interest in patient experience has been skepticism about the measures and their importance. Providers worry that the measures reflect “hotel functions” rather than determinants of patients’ health outcomes. —Nash et al., 2019, p. 236 […]