Define interprofessional roles and responsibilities as they relate to the data and the QI initiative.
Define interprofessional roles and responsibilities as they relate to the data and the QI initiative.
Instructions: Pg. 1-2
Scenario and data: Pg. 3-5
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
- Analyze data to identify a health care issue or area of concern.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
In this activity, you will assume the role of a quality assurance analyst at St. Anthony Medical Center. You will be offered both a dataset that you can use to outline a quality improvement initiative, and input from stakeholders who can help you contextualize the data.
Educational Goals
- Analyze data to identify a health care issue or area of concern.
- Outline a QI initiative proposal based on a selected health issue and supporting data analysis.
- Integrate interprofessional perspectives to lead quality improvements in patient safety, cost effectiveness, and work–life quality.
Email from Sienna Pope
QI Data For You
From: Sienna Pope, Director of Medical Support Services
To: Anthony Roman
Anthony,
Hi! I heard through word of mouth that you were looking for some possible areas of improvement in the hospital. I’ve got some data from SAMC’s in-home hospice program that might be useful.
I realize that you may not be familiar with the hospice program, so I also set up some meetings with a few people with a stake in the program. I’m hoping they can give you some context for the data you’re looking at.
Let me know if you need anything!
Sienna Pope,
Director of Medical Support Services
Hospice Adverse Event Data 2014-2015
Per Vila Health policy, these figures include near misses as well as events that resulted in some level of harm or potential harm to the patient. This is a summary of the data; a downloadable spreadsheet that provides all the data you will need for your presentation is also available below.
| Unit – Year | LOS Less than 7 Days | IPU Admission | Pain Level 7-10 More than 24 Hours | Inadequate Symptom Relief More than 24 Hours |
| Hospice 2014 | 50 | 47 | 13 | 13 |
| Hospice 2015 | 46 | 27 | 17 | 22 |
Interviews with Stakeholders
Here is a list of stakeholders that you had the opportunity to interview.
Roger Goldenberg
Director of Hospice Services
Jackie Sandoval
Chief Nursing Officer
David Brooks
Quality Assurance Director
Owen Welch
CFO
Content of this section depends on choices made during the scenario. Complete at least one attempt of the scenario to see your choices reflected here.
Email Response to Sienna Pope
QI Data For You
From: Sienna Pope, Director of Medical Support Services
To: Anthony Roman
I hope you got what you needed from Jackie, David, Roger, and Owen. Can you send me an email and let me know what your initial thoughts are? It doesn’t have to be anything formal, just your ideas about what the data suggest, and whether there are any QI initiatives that you would recommend based on what you’re seeing. If there are, make sure you explain how the initiatives you recommend might affect the different roles on the hospice team.
Thanks!
— Sienna
Your reply to Sienna’s email should summarize what you’ve learned during this activity. It might also be helpful to articulate any questions or research you plan to do. The reply will be available in your activity log and can be used as a pre-writing activity for the unit assignment.
Content of this section depends on choices made during the scenario. Complete at least one attempt of the scenario to see your choices reflected here.
Conclusion
Having met with some stakeholders, you should now have a solid understanding of what the data you gathered is telling you. You should be able to use this information to complete your assignment in the course.
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