Assignment:
Topic: Reducing Serious Safety Events
Yale New Haven Children's Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut, Driven by the goal to be among the safest children's hospitals in the country, Yale New Haven initiated a project to significantly reduce serious safety events (SSEs). When the project began, the hospital had an inadequate system for reporting safety events and no process for following up on SSEs. The goal was to decrease the number of SSEs to less than two per year. With 12 new interventions put in place, including some that more easily helped identify SSEs, Yale New Haven brought their SSE rate down to zero.
Assignment: Deliver a 5 to 7 page analysis of an existing quality improvement initiative at your workplace.
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 specific quality indicators point to improved patient safety, quality of care, cost and efficiency goals, and other desired metrics.
Your target audience consists of nurses and other health professionals with specializations or interest in your selected condition, disease, or issue. In your report, you will define the disease, analyze how the condition is managed, identify the core performance measurements used to treat or manage the condition, and evaluate the impact of the quality indicators on the health care facility:
1. Analyze a current quality improvement initiative in a health care setting.
o Evaluate a QI initiative and explain what prompted the implementation. Detail problems that were not addressed and any issues that arose from the initiative.
Evaluate the success of a current quality improvement initiative through recognized benchmarks and outcome measures.
o Analyze the benchmarks that were used to evaluate success. Detail what was the most successful, as well as what outcome measures are missing or could be added.
Incorporate interprofessional perspectives related to initiative functionality and outcomes.
o Integrate the perspectives of interprofessional team members involved in the initiative. Detail who you talked to, their professions, and the impact of their perspectives on your analysis.
Recommend additional indicators and protocols to improve and expand quality outcomes of a quality initiative.
o Recommend specific process or protocol changes as well as added technologies that would improve quality outcomes.
Communicate evaluation and analysis in a professional and effective manner, writing content clearly and logically with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
Integrate relevant sources to support arguments, correctly formatting citations and references using current APA style.
Submission Requirements
• Length of submission: A minimum of five but no more than seven double-spaced, typed pages.
• Number of references: Cite a minimum of four sources (no older than five years, unless seminal work) of scholarly peer reviewed or professional evidence that support your interpretation and analysis.
• APA (6th Edition) formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style and formatting.