Assignment Task:
Your team has been given the task of designing a post COVID-19 Quality Improvement (QI) Program for an acute care facility that is part of a large metropolitan healthcare system. Each acute care center in the system will "pitch" a QI program to the Board of the large metropolitan healthcare system. QI program proposals must include THREE potential QI projects that drive Plan Do Study Act cycles. The Board has requested that all teams follow the Model for Improvement.
Your Conversation
I identify and decide on three COVID-19 related QI projects that have the potential to positively impact patient health outcomes and/or nursing care. The goal is to design projects with the potential for the most impact.
The answers to the following questions for each one of the three COVID-19 related QI projects will be submitted to the Board by the Nurse Administrator:
1. What is the group trying to accomplish (AIM)?
The aim should be time-specific and measurable; it should also define the specific population of patients that will be affected.
2. How will the group know the change is an improvement?
Decide what your structure, process, or outcome measures will be. Describe which measures you selected for studying processes and outcomes of the intervention/change(s), including the rationale for choosing them. Identify who will be involved in the data collection. Want Professional Help?
3. What changes can the group make that will result in the improvements that are sought?
Identify at least two relevant change concepts and change ideas that will result in the improvement that the group is seeking. Please use the following document for reference: Using Change Concepts to Come Up with Ideas Download Using Change Concepts to Come Up with Ideas from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
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