QI Plan Part I Julie Mercer NUR/588 May 27‚ 2013 Cynthia M. Hughes‚ DHA‚ MSN‚ BSN‚ RN‚ C QI Plan Part I For more than a decade‚ Via Christi has sponsored a variety of initiatives designed to improve the quality of care provided. These efforts have engaged staff‚ patients and physicians at all levels within the hospital to measure and improve the quality and safety of patient care. At times these initiatives have seen success and failures‚ but with the recent push for our “big aim” quality
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outline how CQI has been introduce in your organization. If it has yet to be introduced‚ describe how you would introduce it referencing these three methods. Answer According to the Study Guide there are three ways to introduce Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI): 1. The quiet or whisper launch. It is suggested that “this is an effective way to begin if the staff or an organization are very cynical and do not trust new management programs.[1] The senior team launches their CQI
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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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Quality improvement among the healthcare industry is needed on a continuous basis. Staying familiar with the different trends and changes in policies is imperative for all health care organizations. Prior to any quality improvement a review and analysis of the current process is needed to determine whether or not additional adjustments are necessary. Once the areas of concern are identified a course of action plan needs to be executed. Along with process improvement quality improvement is needed
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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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Quality Improvement Implementation In today’s business world‚ competition is high and most organizations search for ways to gain an advantage in their respectable markets. One of the obvious‚ but unfortunately overlooked‚ ways to be at the forefront is establishing‚ maintaining‚ and constantly improving quality processes within an organization. Riordan Manufacturing has an established quality culture and strives to maintain the quality processes that are currently in place. Through its quality
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Quality Improvement Project Answering the call light (also called call bell a handheld like that is attached to the patient room wall‚ above the headboard of the bed) in a timely manner by the nursing staff in hospital setting is necessary to prevent falls that can harm‚ prolonged stays‚ and unnecessarily increase the cost of healthcare. However‚ researches concerning call light uses as it relates to patient safety‚ patient-care management and patient satisfaction are limited (Meade et al
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Running head: QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PAPER Quality Improvement Paper Shellee D. Blue University of Phoenix MGT 449 May 5‚ 2008 A Description of the Chosen Process The process I chose that needs improvement in my organization is bookkeeping. We need to expand bookkeeping and create a department for it instead of just having one bookkeeper that is over loaded with all the work. An “As-Is” Flow Chart T The Relationship of the Process to the Organization’s Strategic Plan The
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Quality Improvement is a process used to find wats to measure or improve quality of care while decreasing health care costs. In the past‚ the belief was that if more diagnostic tests and treatments done to patient‚ would result on increase of quality of care and more patient’s satisfaction. However‚ it is now believed that the focus can be both on improving quality of care and on cost containment. The healthcare’s impressive work‚ made it hard for the policy makers‚ healthcare researchers‚ and organizational
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Managing Quality Improvement August 10‚ 2013 Abstract The main purpose of managing quality improvements is to set up a structure by which to measure how the organization is doing out in the public sector. We need a process in place that will drive our improvement efforts when less than optimal results are identified through undesirable trends and benchmarking. They need to be measurable and be the same for all patients in the survey area. This data will assist us in developing the
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