NURS 8302 – Leading Organizations for Quality Improvement Initiatives

For this Assignment, you will explore at least three rate-based measures of quality. You will deconstruct each measure to explore your understanding of the measure, its importance, and its impact on patient safety, cost of healthcare, and overall quality of healthcare. To Prepare: The Assignment: (8–10 pages) Reminder: The College of Nursing requires that all […]

Week 4: Tools and Project Management How might project management lend itself to quality improvement in healthcare and nursing practice? Project management is a systematic process used to achieve a specific goal utilizing a clear framework to initiate, plan, control, review, implement, and complete. This process provides for many checks and balances opportunities to ensure […]

For this Assignment, you will explore at least three rate-based measures of quality. You will deconstruct each measure to explore your understanding of the it, including its importance and its impact on patient safety, the cost of healthcare, and the overall quality of healthcare. To Prepare: The Assignment: (8–10 pages) By Day 7 There is […]

Week 3: Tools and Methods for Quality Improvement How might you identify quality improvement practice gaps in your practice or organization? What tools and methods might you recommend to address these gaps? Successful quality improvement relies on appropriate data and its analysis. It is not enough to just want to improve care and safety. Instead, […]

Week 2: Definitions of Quality How do we improve our work? How do we define quality, and how do we know we are doing the best for our patients? Consider how the role of quality improvements and quality improvement theories might affect how you interact and treat your patients. How do you determine what will […]

As an alternative to a punitive system, application of the Just Culture model, which has been widely used in the aviation industry, seeks to create an environment that encourages individuals to report mistakes so that the precursors to errors can be better understood in order to fix the system issues. —American Nurses Association, 2010 To […]

Week 1: Foundations of Quality and Patient Safety in Healthcare You are a DNP-prepared nurse working in the ICU of your local hospital. A patient is struggling with balance, and you indicate this patient is a “fall risk” in your charts. However, after a long night, caring for many patients, you forget to indicate this […]