Service Improvement for Reducing the Use of Restraint and Seclusion in inpatient Psychiatric wards
Written Assignment:
5000-word Service Improvement Plan incorporating a Literature Review and Change Theory
You are required to produce a 5000-word Service Improvement Plan, based on an aspect of professional practice or patient care. You must use the published literature available through a literature review to embed the service improvement plan.
The change theory will help structure how the service improvement plan can be implemented in the clinical setting. An action plan identifying the service improvement plan will need to be submitted within the appendices of the essay.
The action plan needs to be developed using a suitable framework to measure the outcome, suitable ones for consideration would be either the SMART or PDSA tools.
This assignment provides students with opportunities to reflect on the potential for innovation and service improvement. It enables students to develop new approaches to care management in order to make evidence-based best nursing practice, a local reality.
This assignment will portray the current situation from pre-change to the envisaged new and improved situation.
Introduction
Background + Introduction of the Service Improvement Idea
•Literature Review
•Change Management, applying the Service Improvement Plan
•Recommendations
•Conclusion
•References
•Appendices
