Quality Improvement As advanced practice nurses (APNs)‚ understanding quality improvement is an important competency that must be grasped. There are several health illnesses that need to have quality improvement initiatives placed. One such illness is hypertension (HTN)‚ or high blood pressure. Early identification and treatment of hypertension using a hypertension algorithm is the selected quality improvement initiative. HTN is a highly prevalent illness that affects an estimated 70 million people
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Great Expectations‚ is no different. One of the major themes in this novel is ambition and self-improvement. Dickens uses this as a universal idea for his novel‚ and from this theme he gets his title of Great Expectations. Another major theme in the novel is social class. Dickens uses the theme of social class to feed into his theme of ambition and self-improvement. With both ambition and self-improvement Pip is able to become a gentleman. Pip‚ from the lower class‚ has the longing to be with Estella
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LOCAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECT OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT SUBMITTED BY: Jussi Mäkelä Eduardo Silva DATE: June 3‚ 2013 Identify target: McDonalds is well known for its main target to be the fastest serving family restaurant in the world. Even though McDonalds is a fast food restaurant it has difficulties during the rush hours. Lines are usually long during the peak hours‚ which affects their sales while people are walking to another fast food restaurant such as Subway. We decided to go
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Facilities Strategy • Strategy Scope • Strategy Drivers • Huntingdonshire District - a profile Strategic Context • National Context • Local Context Assessment of Current Provision • Current Facility Provision • Supply and Demand Analysis • Current and Future Participation • The need for new provision in St Neots • Key Issues and Challenges Local Standards • The Planning Framework • Local Standards • Developers’ Contributions Conclusions and Recommendations i 01 SECTION II - SECTION III -
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Reliability Improvement Reliability of a scale is improved by pruning of weak items. Deleting a weak item from a measurement scale may sometimes lead to jeopardizing scale’s theoretical construct. When this happens‚ the item needs to be redesigned and revaluated. Wording of items in a measurement scale plays an important role in determining its discriminating power. Weak items in the scale are identified by computing Corrected Item-Total Correlation (CITC) (Ferketich‚ 1991) and Item-Deleted Cronbach’s
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OVERVIEW AND LESSONS LEARNED Jack A. Meyer‚ Sharon Silow-Carroll‚ Todd Kutyla‚ Larry S. Stepnick‚ and Lise S. Rybowski July 2004 ABSTRACT: Hospitals across the country are searching for ways to improve quality of care and promote effective quality improvement strategies. This research study‚ by members of the economic and social research institute‚ identifies and describes the key factors that contributed to the success of four high-performing hospitals across the country. Essential elements of a successful
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“Continues Improvement”. Continues Improvement definition is the approach of improving organization’s processes and people‚ which need to be monitored to achieve a better performance‚ objectives and quality. It can be applied on business strategies‚ customers‚ services quality‚ structure‚ suppliers‚ distributors‚ partners and any business procedures. It leads to the organization to be more efficient and effective in doing businesses. The aim of this paper is to explain plan for continues improvement‚ processes
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As CEO of Gunn’s Medical center I would use all the data collected to implement a plan to have continuous improvement in patient satisfaction. The necessity for quality and safety improvement initiatives permeates health care (Hughes‚ 2008). Quality health care is defined as “the degree to which health services for individuals and populations increase the likelihood of desired health outcomes and are consistent with current professional knowledge. Patient satisfaction is not a clearly defined concept
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Supply chain improvement Increasingly important in supply chain practice are attempts to improve supply chain performance. These are usually attempts to understand the complexity of supply chain processes; others focus on coordinating activities throughout the chain. • The SCOR model The Supply Chain Operations Reference model (SCOR) is a broad‚ but highly structured and systematic‚ framework to supply chain improvement that has been developed by the Supply Chain Council (SCC)‚ a global non-profit
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Part A The quality Improvement Plan is initiated once a problem has been identified. All the facts must be gathered about the situation‚ and a decision must be made about which clinical areas will be monitored. Also‚ care outcomes and customer feedback should be taken into consideration. Quality improvement uses data and the process that must be chosen should be one that can be measured to monitor the quality improvement. For a good performance equation‚ there must be a good statement chosen for
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