Homework: Outcome Measures, Issues, and Opportunities
Draft a 6 pages report on outcome measures, issues, and opportunities for the executive leadership team or applicable stakeholder group.
As a nurse leader, you may be called upon to submit a detailed report to your executive leadership team and key stakeholders that describes a quality or safety problem and its effects on outcomes, fully supported by relevant and credible data.
This homework provides an opportunity to draft such a report in which you can call attention to quality and safety issues and opportunities, effectively support your position, and lay out a plan for change.
By successfully completing this homework, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and homework criteria:
I. Competency I: Analyze quality and safety outcomes from an administrative and systems perspective.
• Identify typical quality and safety outcomes and their associated measures.
II. Competency II: Determine how specific organizational functions, policies, processes, procedures, norms, and behaviors can be used to build reliability and high-performing organizations.
• Analyze organizational functions, processes, and behaviors in high-performing organizations.
• Determine how organizational functions, processes, and behaviors support and affect outcome measures for an organization.
• Identify performance issues or opportunities associated with particular organizational functions, processes, and behaviors and the quality and safety outcomes they affect.
III. Competency III: Synthesize the various aspects of the nurse leader's role in developing, promoting, and sustaining a culture of quality and safety.
• Outline a strategy for ensuring that all aspects of patient care are measured and that knowledge is shared with the staff.
IV. Competency IV: Communicate effectively with diverse audiences, in an appropriate form and style, consistent with applicable organizational, professional, and scholarly standards.
Questions to Consider
As you prepare to complete this homework, you may want to think about other related issues to deepen your understanding or broaden your viewpoint. You are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of your professional community. Note that these questions are for your own development and exploration and do not need to be completed or submitted as part of your homework.
Organizational functions, processes, and behaviors can include leadership practices, communications, quality processes, financial management, safety and risk management, interprofessional collaboration, strategic planning, using the best available evidence, and questioning the status quo on all levels.
o What are some examples of organizational functions, processes, and behaviors related to the outcome measures and performance issues discussed in your executive summary?
o How would you implement change in addressing particular issues and opportunities?
o In what ways do stakeholders support outcome success?
Instructions
This homework is based on the executive summary you prepared in the previous homework.
Preparation
Your executive summary captured the attention and interest of the executive leadership team, who have asked you to provide them with a detailed report addressing outcome measures and performance issues or opportunities, including a strategy for ensuring that all aspects of patient care are measured.
Task: Drafting the Report
o Analyze organizational functions, processes, and behaviors in high-performing health care organizations or practice settings.
o Determine how organizational functions, processes, and behaviors affect outcome measures associated with the systemic problem identified in your gap analysis.
o Identify the quality and safety outcomes and associated measures relevant to the performance gap you intend to close. Create a spreadsheet showing the outcome measures.
o Identify performance issues or opportunities associated with particular organizational functions, processes, and behaviors and the quality and safety outcomes they affect.
o Outline a strategy, using a selected change model, for ensuring that all aspects of patient care are measured and that knowledge is shared with the staff.
Format your homework 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 homework, 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.