- Investigate and thoroughly describe a national health care quality initiative.
http://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Medicare.html
Scroll down until you find the list for Quality Initiatives/Patient Assessment Instruments or enter it into the search tool.
- Introduction – Identify the national health care quality initiative, including how to locate information on the initiative and why you have chosen this initiative to investigate further.
- Describe the mission and goals of the initiative.
- Discuss the population of focus or those served through the work of this initiative and stakeholders or members of the interprofessional team involved.
- Describe the initiative based on the Plan-Do-Study-Act cycle (PDSA)
a) Plan –
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- Describe the measures and scholarly evidence presented in the initiative that shows a need for improvement.
- What data is presented to show a gap between current and best practice?
- What are the proposed quality improvement outcomes?
- How does the initiative plan to make a difference in health care quality?
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b) Do – What are the actions being taken by this initiative. What has been done so far?
c) Study – How are or will outcomes be measured and utilized to refine the initiative? Who oversees or assesses the actions of this initiative?
d) Act – Describe any refinement of the initiative based on accumulated data. Describe the outcomes achieved so far as a result of this initiative.
6. Summarize your paper. Include a statement of how nurses can be involved in this initiative.
Paper is to be 3-5 pages in length excluding the title and reference pages. References include a minimum of 2 current (within the past 5 years) scholarly resources.
8. Title page, citations, and references consistent with APA 7th edition format.