Assignment: Quality Improvement
Watch YouTube vide: "Challenges of quality improvement in healthcare"
To understand the latest trends in quality improvement (QI), it is necessary to review articles related to health care quality from professional, medical, or health care journals. Research a health care quality improvement project in the library published in the last 5 years.
In your initial post,
1) Summarize your selected article (YouTube link) by stating the following:
a) Introduction and reason for selecting the article.
b) Ideas or thoughts presented by the article.
c) Your analysis of the article and a critique.
d) Conclusion that may be derived from the article.
2) Describe a situation or scenario with the identified issue(s) in your current job or a health care setting. Alternatively, you might present a hypothetical situation or scenario.
3) Explain how you can apply the lessons learned from that quality improvement project in your selected article to solve the identified issue(s).
a) Examples of the lessons learned could be the entire QI project, QI tools, QI strategies, QI methodologies, QI team composite, which you can use to streamline workflow, redesign jobs, and more.
4) Hypothesize the desired outcomes.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
o The answer should be typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, with one-inch margins on all sides.
o 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.
o Also include a reference page. The Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.