Prepare a data analysis and quality improvement initiative proposal based on a health issue of professional interest to you. The audience for your analysis and proposal is the nursing staff and the interprofessional team who will implement the initiative.
Analyze data from the health care facility to identify a health care issue or
area of concern. You will need access to reports and data related to care
quality and patient safety. If you work in hospital setting, contact the
quality management department to obtain the data you need.
You will need to identify basic information about the health care setting,
size, and specific type of care delivery related to the topic that you identify.
You are expected to abide by HIPAA compliance standards.
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 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.
Outline a QI initiative proposal based on a selected health issue and supporting data analysis.
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.