UWF Quality Improvement Project Patient Care Quality & Safety Project Find a process at your employment site that needs improvement. In a written paper, yo

UWF Quality Improvement Project Patient Care Quality & Safety Project Find a process at your employment site that needs improvement. In a written paper, you will describe the process and address the elements below. This is a planning assignment so you will be looking at what needs to be done and who the players are. There is no implementation phase of this assignment. Quality Improvement Project:
Patient Care Quality and Safety Project
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Find a process at your employment site that needs improvement. In a written paper, you will
describe the process and address the elements below. This is a planning assignment so you
will be looking at what needs to be done and who the players are. There is no
implementation phase of this assignment.
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Clarify current unit/organizational knowledge of the current process and if there is any
insight on how to improve the situation at hand.
Why is there is a process breakdown?
Describe the inter-professional team that you would put together if you were working on
this process improvement as an employee of the hospital.
Include current evidence based practice literature findings that have assisted in
improving the process you have identified the process (minimum of two scholarly
articles)
Describe how you would plan to implement an improvement process.
Please limit this assignment to a total of 5-6 pages excluding Title and Reference page.
Follow APA format strictly.
Class textbook:
Kelly, P. (2012). Managing Outcomes Using an Organizational Quality Improvement Model. In
Nursing Leadership & Management (3rd ed., pp.477). Clifton Park, NY, USA: Delmar
Cengage Learning.
Chosen process that needs improvement: nursing assignments based on
acuity not proximity of rooms
Currently work nights and get 6 to 7 patients per shift – not safe!
Rubric specified below:
Quality Improvement Grading Criteria
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Identifies and discusses a current work related problem that is from one of the Institute of
Medicine’s 6 areas of competencies: Patient Centered Care, Teamwork and Collaboration,
Evidence-Based Practice, Quality Improvement, Safety and Informatics. (10)
Identify and discusses which model discussed in the QI Tutorial, could be utilized in the
process of evaluating and implementing change. (10)
Identifies why or what is the process breakdown (15)
Discusses and evaluates the current unit/organizational knowledge of the current process.
(15)
Analyzes whether there is any insight on how to improve the situation. (10)
This section Is worth 60 points .
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Describe what previous evidence has shown (in your own words) (10)
Describe how you would plan to implement an improvement process(10)
Discuss how you would evaluate your plan.(10)
This section is worth 30 points.
APA section is worth 10 points
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Paper conforms to APA 6th edition format and demonstrates a professional level of
scholarship, which means it includes (but is not limited to) items such as:
o Title page in APA format, double spaced (1)
o Section headings for each graded part of the rubric (2)
o Include introduction and conclusion paragraphs ( 1 point each)
o Thorough detailed responses (2) Clear flow of thoughts. Good grammar and sentence
structure.
o All scholarly content should be cited. All citations should be listed in the reference list.
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? Scholarly references that are cited in the paper are in APA format (minimum of three
scholarly articles plus textbook as references). (2)
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Include current evidence based practice literature findings that have assisted in
improving the process you have identified. (5 years or less.) (1)
Total Points : 100

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