Discuss Perioperative Nurse job related to nursing dissatisfaction and it has lead to short staffing and decreased patient satisfaction or outcomes.

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Description

Discuss Perioperative Nurse job related to nursing dissatisfaction and it has lead to short staffing and decreased patient satisfaction or outcomes.

Contributing factors are: unfair scheduling and poor management.

Purpose:

Quality Improvement Proposal

The purpose of this assignment is to acknowledge of the high-risk, error-prone nature of an organization’s activities and develop a Quality improvement proposal that is feasible to implement changes in nursing practice in the organization. Students will design a quality of care problem and develop a quality improvement plan for a specific clinical setting, preferably a setting where they are employed.

Program Outcome:

 Provide safe, quality care incorporating evidence based nursing practice.

 Demonstrate commitment to the nursing profession and lifelong learning.

Course Objective:

 Apply principles of safety, teamwork and collaboration, informatics, patient centered care, and evidence based practice to quality improvement processes

Module Objective:

 Appraise continuous quality improvement as an essential part of the daily work of all health professionals

Instructions: The assignment has 2 parts: a QI proposal worksheet and narrative story. You can use your Root Cause Analysis (Assignment 1) to build your proposal for this assignment

Part one: Quality Improvement Proposal worksheet

QI Proposal (Each step is linked to appropriate Module for resource)

Step 1: Students will describe the issue in Problem Identification

Step 2: Provide best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences the literature

Support.

Step 3: Factors contributing to the problem (process, equipment, environment, management/organization,

regulation or people/teamwork). Complete the Fishbone as a concise way of improvement is about

monitoring outcomes.

Step 4: Set a well-defined goal and a specific time-frame. Use the timeline template provided and inserts

your image in the document

Step 5: Identify measures that are applicable to your problem

Step 6: Identify change idea and implement ONLY Plan and Do from PDSA cycle

Part two: Paper

After you complete a QI proposal worksheet complete this assignment in narrative story telling form using APA 6th format. Page length not to exceed four pages (excluding title page, references, and appendices).

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I. II.

1. Include the following in your paper: Title page

What is your story?

a. Identify the problem

b. Contributing factors

c. Discuss how the Plan and Do will be utilized from the PDSA cycle

d. Create and discuss the timeline for the proposal.

e. Describe how you will create a small test of change. Describe what changes can be made that will

result in improvement.

f. Describe how you will know that the change is an improvement.

Summarize how all the six concepts (Safety, Teamwork and Collaboration, Informatics, Patient Centered

Care, Evidence Based Practice, and Quality Improvement) from this course inclined your QI proposal.

APA Requirements:

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 The paper should be written in APA format, 12 point Times New Roman.

 The paper should include – title page, 3-4 pages of content, and reference page.

 Level 1 header must be used to label the content sections. You may write in the first person

throughout this paper.

 The paper should include: title page with honor code, instructor name and date; no more than four

(4) pages of content; reference page and appendix.

 Please take note of your Safe Assign report. Remember, you can submit a draft early to review

your Safe Assign feedback before submitting a final draFt

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