Prepare an evaluation (5 pages) of an existing QI initiative to determine if the initiative is effective.
● Please do not plagiarize or use AI in writing this paper. It must be written in Times Roman, 12 Font, and APA edition 7. Use at least six scholarly writers to complete the assignment, and articles have to be published within the last five years old. The analysis has to be logically structured? Please ensure to read all the detail information before answering the question . If you need more information to understand the process for quality improvement plans for this assignment you can view the CDC template . Project Quality Management Plan.
Introduction: Too often, discussions about quality health care, care costs, and outcome measures take place in isolation—various groups talking among themselves about results and enhancements. Nurses are critical to the delivery of high-quality, efficient health care. As a result, they must develop their skills in reviewing and evaluating performance reports. They also need to be able to communicate outcome measures related to quality initiatives effectively. Patient safety and positive institutional health care outcomes mandate collaboration among nursing staff members to ensure the integration of their perspectives in all quality care initiatives.
Overview: In the first assessment, you analyzed an adverse event or a near miss, and outlined a QI initiative to address it. This assessment will give you practice and the confidence to evaluate a quality care initiative in much the same way you might in your health care setting to help determine if the initiative is effective.
Too often, discussions about quality health care, care costs, and outcome measures take place in isolation—each group talking among themselves about results and enhancements. Because nurses are critical to the delivery of high-quality, efficient health care, it is essential that they develop the proficiency to review, evaluate performance reports, and be able to effectively communicate outcome measures related to quality initiatives. The nursing staff’s perspective and the need to collaborate on quality care initiatives are fundamental to patient safety and positive institutional health care outcomes.
Imagine you have been asked to prepare and deliver an analysis of an existing QI initiative at your workplace. The QI initiative you choose to analyze should be related to a specific disease, condition, or public health issue of personal or professional interest to you. The purpose of the report is to assess whether the specific quality indicators point to improved patient safety, quality of care, cost and efficiency goals, and other desired metrics. Your target audience is nurses and other health professionals with specializations or interest in your chosen condition, disease, or public health issue.
In your report, you will: Analyze a current QI initiative in a health care setting.
Identify what prompted implementation of the QI initiative.
Evaluate problems that arose during the initiative or problems that were not addressed.
Evaluate the success of a current QI initiative through recognized benchmarks and outcome measures as required to meet national, state, or accreditation requirements.
Identify the core performance measurements related to successful treatment or management of the condition.
Evaluate the impact of the quality indicators on the health care facility.
Incorporate interprofessional perspectives related to the success of actions used in the QI initiative as they relate to functionality and outcomes.
Recommend additional indicators and protocols to improve and expand outcomes of a current quality initiative.
Ensure your analysis conveys purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards.
Be sure to address all of the bullet points. You may also want to read the Quality Improvement Initiative Evaluation Scoring Guide to better understand the performance levels that relate to each grading criterion. Additionally, be sure to review the document for additional clarification about things to consider when creating your assessment using the guiding questions of the Quality Improvement Initiative Evaluation provided below:
Guiding Questions: Quality Improvement Initiative Evaluation:
This document is designed to give you questions to consider and additional guidance to help you successfully complete the Quality Improvement Initiative Evaluation assessment. You may find it useful to use this document as a prewriting exercise, an outlining tool, or a final check to ensure you have sufficiently addressed all the grading criteria for this assessment. This document is a resource to help you complete the assessment. Do not turn in this document as your assessment submission.
Remember, you are analyzing a current QI initiative that is already in place. You are not creating a new QI initiative Analyze a current quality improvement initiative in a health care setting.
● What prompted the implementation of the quality improvement initiative?
● What problems were not addressed?
● What problems arose from the initiative?
Evaluate the success of a current quality initiative through recognized benchmarks and outcome measures.
● What benchmarks or outcome measures were used to evaluate success? Consider requirements for national, state, or accreditation standards.
● What was most successful?
Incorporate interprofessional perspectives related to initiative functionality and outcomes.
● How does the interprofessional team contribute to the success of the QI initiative?
● What are the perspectives of interprofessional team members involved in the initiative?
● Who did you talk to? From what other professions? How did their input impact your analysis?
Recommend additional indicators and protocols to improve and expand outcomes of a current quality initiative.
● What process or protocol changes would you recommend?
● What added technologies would improve quality outcomes?
● What outcome measures are missing, or could be added?
Convey purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards.
Competencies Measured: By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
• Competency 2: Plan quality improvement initiatives in response to routine data surveillance.
o Recommend additional indicators and protocols to improve and expand outcomes of a quality initiative.
• Competency 3: Evaluate quality improvement initiatives using sensitive and sound outcome measures.
o Analyze a current quality improvement initiative in a health care setting.
o Evaluate the success of a current quality improvement initiative through recognized benchmarks and outcome measures as required to meet national, state, or accreditation requirements.
• Competency 4: Integrate interprofessional perspectives to lead quality improvements in patient safety, cost effectiveness, and work life quality.
o Incorporate interprofessional perspectives related to the success of actions utilized in a quality improvement initiative as they relate to functionality and outcomes.
• Competency 5: Apply effective communication strategies to promote quality improvement of interprofessional care.
Convey purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards
o Criteria that this essay must address are as follows:
• 1.Analyzes a current quality improvement initiative in a health care setting, and identifies knowledge gaps, unknowns, missing information, unanswered questions, or areas of uncertainty (where further information could improve the analysis).
• 2 Evaluates the success of a current quality improvement initiative through recognized national, state, or accreditation benchmarks and outcome measures. Identifies assumptions on which the analysis is based.
• 3 Incorporates interprofessional perspectives and actions related to initiative functionality and outcomes, and identifies areas of uncertainty, knowledge gaps, and additional information that would be needed to gain a more complete understanding.
• 4 Recommends additional indicators and protocols to improve and expand outcomes of a quality initiative, and impartially explains the pros and cons of these recommendations.
• 5 Conveys clear purpose, in a tone and style well-suited to the intended audience. Supports assertions, arguments, and conclusions with relevant, credible, and convincing evidence. Exhibits strict and nearly flawless adherence to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards, including APA 7 edition and formatting. In order to complete this assessment, the following three captions must also be addressed and the suggested resources has to be used
• Caption 1: Quality Improvement Models:
These examples of QI models take different approaches to accounting for all the different organizational structures that can get in the way of successful implementation. You’ll find them useful as you begin to think about how to analyze QI initiatives for this assessment.
Some Resources to be used :-
Title:1. Using a quality improvement model to implement distress screening in a community cancer setting.
Author:Bush, N. J., Goebel, J. R., Hardan-Khalil, K., & Matsumoto, K.
Journal Title:Journal of the Advanced Practitioner in Oncology
Publication Date:2020
Volume:11
Issue:8
Start page:825
End page:834
Leading sustainable quality improvement.
Title:Leading sustainable quality improvement.
Author: O’Donoghue, S. C., DiLibero, J., & Altman, M.
Journal Title:
Nursing Management
Publication Date:2021
Volume:52
Issue:2
Start page:42
End page:50
2.Reaching the summit of discharge summaries: A quality improvement project.
Title:Reaching the summit of discharge summaries: A quality improvement project.
Author:Richmond, R. T., McFadzean, I. J., & Vallabhaneni, P.
Journal Title:BMJ Open Quality
Publication Date:2021
Volume:10
Issue:1
Start page:1
End page:7
Caption 2 : Quality Performance Measures
Read or review these articles, with an eye on quality performance measures and benchmarks.
Familiarity with core measures, such as Medicaid and Medicare measures, will also be important
for you in completing this assessment.
Title:Dashboards and report cards: Using staff performance to drive outcomes.
Author:Piech, L. K., Burke, C., & Johansen, M. L.
Journal Title:Nursing Management
Publication Date:2021
Volume:52
Issue:3 Start page:10 End page:13
Title:Core measures.
Author:Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
Publication Date:2020
Caption: 3 Work Environment And Quality
These resources provide different examples of the correlations between work environment and
nurse-sensitive patient outcomes. They also give examples of the kind of environment-related
factors that need to be taken into account when designing QI initiatives. This is something for
you to consider as you analyze an existing QI initiative for Assessment 2.
Title:Embracing the quadruple aim: One hospital’s experience.
Author:Lapaine, M.
Journal Title:Healthcare Management Forum
Publication Date:2021
Volume:34
Issue:1
Start page:
26
End page:28
Title:
Using nurse-sensitive indicators to assess the impact of primary care RNs on quality ambulatory patient care.
Author:Alley, R., Carreira, E., Wilson, C., & Pickard, K.
Journal Title:Nursing Economics
Publication Date:2021
Volume:39
Issue:4
Start page:200
End page:207
P.S. You have to use/reference some of these reading materials suggested under these three
Captions
As a health care leader, you will become very used to benchmarks. That’s because in any quality improvement effort, benchmarks play a role. They tell you where you currently are and point the way to where you’d like to be.
In this activity you’ll learn more about benchmarks and see how they support QI initiatives — and your assignment !Look at HRQ Data Tools Page.
Data Analysis
Quality improvement initiatives are a critical tool in the ongoing effort to improve patient care at health care organizations. But without data, many QI initiatives would fail — or the problem behind them might never be detected. That’s why data, and the dashboards that present data in a comprehensible fashion, are essential for QI efforts to succeed.
Educational Goals
After completing the activity, you will be prepared to:
• Analyze data to identify a health care issue or area of concern.
• Outline a QI initiative proposal based on a selected health issue and supporting data analysis.
• Integrate interprofessional perspectives to lead quality improvements in patient safety, cost effectiveness, and work–life quality.