Identify and discuss a quality improvement issue in nursing practice.
Discuss tools for quality improvement.
Develop a plan for improvement of the issue/problem
Identify and describe a concern or problem related to patient care that you have noticed and believe needs to be improved. Is there a standard or guideline that is not being adhered to?
• How do you know that this is a problem?
o What evidence do you have that leads you to believe there is
a problem?
o Describe data that may be available to you: observations that you have made or patient/family complaints that have been
voiced.
• State and discuss which of the 6 IOM aims this problem relatesto(safe, timely, effective, equitable, efficient, or patient centered).
• Discuss the type of data that has been collected or needs to be collected to understand progress on improving this specific aspect of care. Review the Avedis Donabedian and identify the structure,
process, or outcome.
• Discuss the tools you will use to better clarify the concern or problem (control chart, histogram, Ishikawa fishbonediagram).
• What other nursing staff would you include in the project and why? (List initials not full names)
• What staff in addition to the nursing staff would you include in this project and why? (List initials not full names)
• Describe the Plan, Do, Study, and Act (PDSA) cycle that you would use as a test of change to improve the care related to the problem you identified.
