NUR 630: Performance Improvement & Quality Health (NUR630)

NUR 630 (Performance Improvement and Quality in Healthcare) Topic 2 Assignment: Healthcare Culture Description: The purpose of this assignment is to discuss health care culture and describe how CWV can be used to improve ethical practices. In a 1,000-1,250 word essay, discuss the important factors associated with health care culture. Include the following in your essay: 1. A definition of health care culture, including culture of excellence and safety. 2. Two or three examples of pri...

NUR 630 (Performance Improvement and Quality in Healthcare) Topic 1 Discussion Question 2 Description: Some consider the integration of evidence-based practice a "cookbook" approach. Do you agree or disagree? Explain. Support your position with one or two examples and one or two references.

NUR 630 (Performance Improvement and Quality in Healthcare) Topic 1 Discussion Question 1 Description: You are assigned to a quality team on a rehabilitation floor where patient falls are on the rise. What strategy would be best to approach this issue—quality improvement, evidence-based practice, or research? Support your choice with one or two examples and one or two references.

NUR 630 (Performance Improvement and Quality in Healthcare) Topic 1 Assignment: Visual Model Description: The purpose of this assignment is to differentiate quality improvement (QI), evidence-based practice (EBP), and research. Create a graphic image or visual model differentiating quality improvement, evidence-based practice, and research. You can use PowerPoint, Smart Art in Word, or other software that creates a graphic. Be creative in your design. Include the following information i...

The concept of a "Just Culture" has a number of key elements. Choose the two elements that you feel are the most difficult to achieve and provide one strategy for each that will make them achievable.

What two elements do you believe play the most significant role in sustaining change and why? Support your answer with one or two references.

Choose one quality or patient safety concern with which you are familiar and that you have not yet discussed in this course. In a 1,250-1,500 word essay, reflect on what you have learned in this course by applying the concepts to the quality or patient safety concern you have selected. Include the following in your essay: 1. Briefly describe the issue and associated challenges. 2. Explain how EBP, research, and PI would be utilized to address the issue. 3. Explain the PI or QI process you wou...

You are going to present data that has been collected to your administrative group. The focus is on outcome measures and the data collected is unplanned readmission rates at two different hospitals. What format would you choose to display your data and why? What information would you include with the data?

Identify at least two stakeholder agency reporting sources. How do these external reporting groups contribute to or hinder CQI?

Create a 10-15 slide PowerPoint presenting the data to the stakeholders. Address the following in your PowerPoint: 1. What conclusions can be drawn for each quality measure over the 5-year period? 2. What trends do you see for each quality measure over the 5-year period? 3. When comparing each quality measure, is the quality measure better than, worse than, or no different from the national benchmark over time? 4. Based on your examination of the data, which of the quality measures should ...