Assignment
Prepare an 8-10-page data analysis and quality improvement initiative proposal based on a health issue of professional interest to you. The audience for your analysis and proposal is the nursing staff and the interprofessional team who will implement the initiative.
Topic Proposal: Quality Improvement Project to Manage Workplace Violence in the Pediatric Emergency Department
The QI initiative proposal will be based on an analysis of dashboard metrics from a health care facility.
• If you have access to dashboard metrics related to a QI initiative proposal of interest to you:
• Analyze data from the health care facility to identify a health care issue or area of concern. You will need access to reports and data related to care quality and patient safety. If you work in hospital setting, contact the quality management department to obtain the data you need.There are currently no numbers available for this topic as this will be the first time generating a project to obtain this information to use for change.
You will need to identify basic information about the health care setting, size, and specific type of care delivery related to the topic that you identify. You are expected to abide by HIPAA compliance standards.Health Care Setting: Pediatric Emergency Department Size: 23 beds Level One Trauma Center Age range of patients serviced: Birth to age 18. Saw approximately 54,000 children in 2016 According to Phillips JP. Workplace violence against health care workers in the United States. N Engl J Med. 2016;374(17):1661-1669.Between 2011 and 2013, the number of workplace assaults averaged approximately 24 000 annually, with nearly 75% occurring in health care settings and Rates up to 100% for verbal assault and 82% for physical assault have been reported in high-risk settings (eg, emergency department [ED] and inpatient psychiatric units).
Instructions
The numbered points below correspond to grading criteria in the scoring guide. The bullets below each grading criterion further delineate tasks to fulfill the assessment requirements. Be sure that your Quality Improvement Initiative Evaluation addresses all of the content below. You may also want to read the scoring guide to better understand the performance levels that relate to each grading criterion.
1. Analyze data to identify a health care issue or area of concern.
o Identify the type of data you are analyzing (from your institution or from the media piece).
o Discuss why the data matters, what it is telling you, and what is missing.
o Analyze dashboard metrics and provide the data set in the proposal.
o Present dashboard metrics related to the selected issue.
o Delineate any problematic variations or performance failures.
o Assess the stability of processes or outcomes.
o Evaluate the quality of the data and what can be learned from it.
o Identify trends, outcome measures and information needed to calculate specific rates.
o Analyze what metrics indicate opportunities for quality improvement.
Outline a QI initiative proposal based on a selected health issue and supporting data analysis.
o Identify benchmarks aligned to existing QI initiatives set by local, state, or federal health care policies or laws.
o Identify existing QI initiatives related to the selected issue, and explain why they are insufficient.
o Identify target areas for improvement, and define what processes can be modified to improve outcomes.
o Propose evidence-based strategies to improve quality.
o Evaluate QI initiatives on the selected health issue with existing quality indicators from other facilities, government agencies, and non-governmental bodies on quality improvement.
o Analyze challenges that meeting prescribed benchmarks can pose for a heath care organization and the interprofessional team.
Integrate interprofessional perspectives to lead quality improvements in patient safety, cost effectiveness, and work-life quality.
o Define interprofessional roles and responsibilities as they relate to the data and the QI initiative.
o Explain how you would you make sure that all relevant roles are fully engaged in this effort.
o Explain what non-nursing concepts would you incorporate into the initiative?
o Identify how outcomes to measure the effect of the intervention affect the interprofessional team.
o Briefly reflect on the impact of the proposed initiative on work-life quality of the nursing staff and interprofessional team. Describe how work-life quality is improved or enriched by the initiative.
Apply effective communication strategies to promote quality improvement of interprofessional care.
o Identify the kind of interprofessional communication strategies that will be effective to promote and ensure the success of this performance improvement plan or quality improvement initiative.
o In addition to writing, identify communication models (like CUS, SBAR) that you would include in your initiative proposal.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.