Use the hospital data set provided in Vila Health: Data Analysis. (ATTACHED) You will analyze data to identify a health care issue or area of concern.
Include in your proposal basic information about the health care setting, size, and specific type of care delivery related to the identified topic.
Instructions
Use your current role or assume a role you would like to have. Choose a quality improvement initiative of professional interest to you. Your current organization is probably working on quality improvement initiatives that can be evaluated, so consider starting there.
To develop your proposal you will:
Gather internal and external benchmark data on the subject of your quality improvement initiative proposal.
Analyze data you have collected.
Make evidence-based recommendations about how to improve health care quality and safety relating to your chosen issue.
Remember, your initiative’s success depends on the interprofessional team’s commitment to the QI initiative. Think carefully about these stakeholders and how you plan to include them in the process, as they will help you develop and implement ideas and sustain outcomes. Also, remember how important external stakeholders, such as patients and other healthcare delivery organizations, are to the process. As you are preparing this assessment, consider carefully the communication strategies you will employ to include the perspectives of all internal and external stakeholders in your proposal.
The following numbered points correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. The bullets below each grading criterion further delineate tasks to fulfill the assessment requirements. Be sure that your proposal addresses all of the content below. You may also want to read the scoring guide to better understand the performance levels related 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 Vila Health activity.
Explain why data matters. What does data show related to outcomes?
Analyze the dashboard metrics. What else could the organization measure to enhance knowledge?
Present dashboard metrics related to the selected issue that are critical to evaluating outcomes.
Assess the institutional ability to sustain processes or outcomes.
Evaluate data quality and its implications for outcomes.&
Determine whether any adverse event or near-miss data needs to be factored in to outcomes and recommendations.
Examine the nursing process for variations or performance failures that could lead to an adverse event or near miss.
Identify trends, measures, and information needed to critically analyze specific outcomes.
Specify desired outcomes related to prevention of adverse events and near misses.
Analyze which metrics indicate future quality improvement opportunities.
Develop a QI initiative proposal based on a selected health issue and supporting data analysis.
Determine benchmarks aligned to existing QI initiatives set by local, state, or federal health care policies or laws.
Identify any internal existing QI initiatives in your practice setting or organization related to the selected issue. Explain why they are insufficient.
Evaluate external national or international QI initiatives on the selected health issue with existing quality indicators from other facilities, government agencies, and nongovernmental bodies on quality improvement.
Define target areas for improvement and the processes to be modified to improve outcomes.
Propose evidence-based strategies to improve quality.
Analyze challenges that meeting prescribed benchmarks can pose for a health care organization and the interprofessional team.
Communicate QI initiative proposal based on interdisciplinary team input to improve patient safety and quality outcomes and work-life quality.
