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MSN6016 Quality Improvement of Interprofessional Care

Assessment 1

Adverse Event or Near Miss Analysis

Preparation

Prepare a comprehensive analysis on an adverse event or near-miss from your professional nursing experience that you or a peer experienced. Integrate research and data on the event and use as a basis to propose a Quality Improvement (QI) initiative in your current organization.

Note: Remember, you can submit all, or a portion of, your draft to Smarthinking for feedback, before you submit the final version of your analysis for this assessment. However, be mindful of the turnaround time for receiving feedback, if you plan on using this free service.

The numbered points below correspond to grading criteria in the scoring guide. The bullets below each grading criterion further delineate tasks to fulfill the assessment requirements. Be sure that your Adverse Event or Near-miss Analysis addresses all of the content below. You may also want to read the scoring guide to better understand the performance levels that relate to each grading criterion.

Analyze the missed steps or protocol deviations related to an adverse event or near miss.

Describe how the event resulted from a patient’s medical management rather than from the underlying condition.

Identify and evaluate the missed steps or protocol deviations that led to the event.

Discuss the extent to which the incident was preventable.

Research the impact of the same type of adverse event or near miss in other facilities.

Analyze the implications of the adverse event or near miss for all stakeholders.

Evaluate both short-term and long-term effects on the stakeholders (patient, family, interprofessional team, facility, community). Analyze how it was managed and who was involved.

Analyze the responsibilities and actions of the interprofessional team. Explain what measures should have been taken and identify the responsible parties or roles.

Describe any change to process or protocol implemented after the incident.

Evaluate quality improvement technologies related to the event that are required to reduce risk and increase patient safety.

Analyze the quality improvement technologies that were put in place to increase patient safety and prevent a repeat of similar events.

Determine whether the technologies are being utilized appropriately.

Explore how other institutions integrated solutions to prevent these types of events.

Incorporate relevant metrics of the adverse event or near miss incident to support need for improvement.

Identify the salient data that is associated with the adverse event or near miss that is generated from the facility’s dashboard. (By dashboard, we mean the data that is generated from the information technology platform that provides integrated operational, financial, clinical, and patient safety data for health care management.)

Analyze what the relevant metrics show.

Explain research or data related to the adverse event or near miss that is available outside of your institution. Compare internal data to external data.

Outline a quality improvement initiative to prevent a future adverse event or near miss.

Explain how the process or protocol is now managed and monitored in your facility.

Evaluate how other institutions addressed similar incidents or events.

Analyze QI initiatives developed to prevent similar incidents, and explain why they are successful. Provide evidence of their success.

Propose solutions for your selected institution that can be implemented to prevent future adverse events or near-miss incidents.

Communicate analysis and proposed initiative in a professional and effective manner, writing content clearly and logically with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and spelling.

Integrate relevant sources to support arguments, correctly formatting citations and references using current APA style.

 

MSN6016 Quality Improvement of Interprofessional Care

Assessment 2

Quality Improvement Initiative Evaluation

Preparation

You have been asked to prepare and deliver an analysis of an existing quality improvement 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 specific quality indicators point to improved patient safety, quality of care, cost and efficiency goals, and other desired metrics.

Your target audience consists of nurses and other health professionals with specializations or interest in your selected condition, disease, or issue. In your report, you will define the disease, analyze how the condition is managed, identify the core performance measurements used to treat or manage the condition, and evaluate the impact of the quality indicators on the health care facility:

Note: Remember, you can submit all, or a portion of, your draft to Smarthinking for feedback, before you submit the final version of your analysis for this assessment. However, be mindful of the turnaround time for receiving feedback, if you plan on using this free service.

The numbered points below correspond to grading criteria in the scoring guide. The bullets below each grading criterion further delineate tasks to fulfill the assessment requirements. Be sure that your Quality Improvement Initiative Evaluation addresses all of the content below. You may also want to read the scoring guide to better understand the performance levels that relate to each grading criterion.

Analyze a current quality improvement initiative in a health care setting.

Evaluate a QI initiative and explain what prompted the implementation. Detail problems that were not addressed and any issues that arose from the initiative.

Evaluate the success of a current quality improvement initiative through recognized benchmarks and outcome measures.

Analyze the benchmarks that were used to evaluate success. Detail what was the most successful, as well as what outcome measures are missing or could be added.

Incorporate interprofessional perspectives related to initiative functionality and outcomes.

Integrate the perspectives of interprofessional team members involved in the initiative. Detail who you talked to, their professions, and the impact of their perspectives on your analysis.

Recommend additional indicators and protocols to improve and expand quality outcomes of a quality initiative.

Recommend specific process or protocol changes as well as added technologies that would improve quality outcomes.

Communicate evaluation and analysis in a professional and effective manner, writing content clearly and logically with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and spelling.

Integrate relevant sources to support arguments, correctly formatting citations and references using current APA style.

 

MSN6016 Quality Improvement of Interprofessional Care

Assessment 3

Preparation

In this assessment, you will propose a quality improvement (QI) initiative proposal based on a health issue of professional interest to you. The QI initiative proposal will be based on an analysis of dashboard metrics from a health care facility. You have one of two options:

Option 1

If you have access to dashboard metrics related to a QI initiative proposal of interest to you:

Analyze data from the health care facility to identify a health care issue or area of concern. You will need access to reports and data related to care quality and patient safety. If you work in hospital setting, contact the quality management department to obtain the data you need.

You will need to identify basic information about the health care setting, size, and specific type of care delivery related to the topic that you identify. You are expected to abide by HIPAA compliance standards.

Option 2

If you do not have access to a dashboard or metrics related to a QI initiative proposal:

You may use the hospital data set provided in the media piece titled Vila Health: Data Analysis. You will analyze the data to identify a health care issue or area of concern.

You will follow the same instructions and provide the same deliverables as your peers who select Option 1.

Instructions

Analyze dashboard metrics related to the selected issue.

Provide the selected data set in the proposal.

Assess the stability of processes or outcomes.

Delineate any problematic variations or performance failures.

Evaluate QI initiatives on the selected health issue with existing quality indicators from other facilities, government agencies, and non-governmental bodies on quality improvement.

Analyze challenges that meeting prescribed benchmarks can pose for a heath care organization and the interprofessional team.

Outline a QI initiative proposal based on the selected health issue and data analysis.

Identify target areas for improvement.

Define what processes can be modified to improve outcomes.

Propose strategies to improve quality.

Define interprofessional roles and responsibilities as they relate to the QI initiative.

Provide recommendations for effective communication strategies for the interprofessional team to ensure the success of the QI initiative. Briefly reflect on the impact of the proposed initiative on work-life quality of the nursing staff and interprofessional team.

Integrate relevant sources to support arguments, correctly formatting citations and references using current APA style.

Note: Remember, you can submit all, or a portion of, your draft to Smarthinking for feedback, before you submit the final version of your analysis for this assessment. However, be mindful of the turnaround time for receiving feedback, if you plan on using this free service.

The numbered points below correspond to grading criteria in the scoring guide. The bullets below each grading criterion further delineate tasks to fulfill the assessment requirements. Be sure that your Quality Improvement Initiative Evaluation addresses all of the content below. You may also want to read the scoring guide to better understand the performance levels that relate to each grading criterion.

Analyze data to identify a health care issue or area of concern.

Identify the type of data you are analyzing (from your institution or from the media piece).

Discuss why the data matters, what it is telling you, and what is missing.

Analyze dashboard metrics and provide the data set in the proposal.

Present dashboard metrics related to the selected issue.

Delineate any problematic variations or performance failures.

Assess the stability of processes or outcomes.

Evaluate the quality of the data and what can be learned from it.

Identify trends, outcome measures and information needed to calculate specific rates.

Analyze what metrics indicate opportunities for quality improvement.

Outline a QI initiative proposal based on a selected health issue and supporting data analysis.

Identify benchmarks aligned to existing QI initiatives set by local, state, or federal health care policies or laws.

Identify existing QI initiatives related to the selected issue, and explain why they are insufficient.

Identify target areas for improvement, and define what processes can be modified to improve outcomes.

Propose evidence-based strategies to improve quality.

Evaluate QI initiatives on the selected health issue with existing quality indicators from other facilities, government agencies, and non-governmental bodies on quality improvement.

Analyze challenges that meeting prescribed benchmarks can pose for a heath care organization and the interprofessional team.

Integrate interprofessional perspectives to lead quality improvements in patient safety, cost effectiveness, and work-life quality.

Define interprofessional roles and responsibilities as they relate to the data and the QI initiative.

Explain how you would you make sure that all relevant roles are fully engaged in this effort.

Explain what non-nursing concepts would you incorporate into the initiative?

Identify how outcomes to measure the effect of the intervention affect the interprofessional team.

Briefly reflect on the impact of the proposed initiative on work-life quality of the nursing staff and interprofessional team. Describe how work-life quality is improved or enriched by the initiative.

Apply effective communication strategies to promote quality improvement of interprofessional care.

Identify the kind of interprofessional communication strategies that will be effective to promote and ensure the success of this performance improvement plan or quality improvement initiative.

In addition to writing, identify communication models (like CUS, SBAR) that you would include in your initiative proposal.

Communicate evaluation and analysis in a professional and effective manner, writing content clearly and logically with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and spelling.

Integrate relevant sources to support arguments, correctly formatting citations and references using current APA style.