Nurs 422 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Post your definition of quality, and apply it to the work of one major quality theorist (e.g., Donabedian, Juran, Deming, Triple Aim (IHI) – Berwick). Identify a practice problem that you have had some experience with as a customer or as a practitioner and explain how eliminating wasteful practices could have improved the experience. Include how your definition of quality applies to that experience

Select one of the scenarios, and post the following: Describe the most appropriate leadership style and/or strategy to apply in the scenario you chose in order to implement the recommendations successfully. Justify your selection. Support your response with references from the professional nursing literature. Your posts need to be written at the capstone level (see checklist)

Post a description of the measures identified from the interviews, the challenges to obtaining the data that were discussed and a summary of how this quality indicator is measured in the literature. Discuss any gaps in the data that were identified and additional sources that might be needed to obtain this data. Be sure to support your practice problem with the literature that indicates the relevance of this problem for nursing practice. Provide evidence from practice and data that is availa...

Describe the quality improvement process that was posted in the practicum discussion. This process will be used to support the proposed quality improvement plan. Explain why the specific process was selected, and document your explanation with references. Use appropriate, relevant, and compelling content to illustrate mastery of the subject. This section will be 2–3 paragraphs. Make the recommended changes to the literature review and then add the quality improvement process to this document ...

WEEK 4 DISCUSSION, NURS 4220: Leadership Competencies in Nursing and Healthcare Discussion: Root Cause Analysis In the hypothetical scenario described in this week’s discussion, a root-cause analysis (RCA) team was assembled to assess the unfolding of events that led to the medication error in Downtown Medical. The RCA is a mechanism used in identifying problems by assembling a team of experts to deliberate and come up with ideas to tackle the problems. According to Spath (2018), RCA is an or...

Based on the scenario, explain what was done successfully and where improvement was needed in the quality improvement process. Identify the performance improvement tools, and explain how they contributed to the outcome. Support your response with references from the learning resources and professional nursing literature. Your posts need to be written at the capstone level (see checklist).

Post a description of the role of the staff nurse for promoting quality in a high-performing health care organization. Define the organizational culture of your health care organization, or one with which you are familiar, and the identify leadership style of the CEO and CNO in your organization. Explain how your senior leadership supports—or does not support—changes that require financing/budget to support patient safety. Describe the strategies you might be able to implement to m...

Take on the role of the staff nurse in the scenario, and post an explanation of how you would go about finding out how many diabetics are in your practice, and how many meet all 8 components of HEDIS comprehensive diabetes care. Support your response with references from the professional nursing literature. Your posts need to be written at the capstone level (see checklist).

NURS 4220 (Leadership Competencies In Nursing and Healthcare) Week 1 Discussion: Defining Quality Post your definition of quality, and apply it to the work of one major quality theorist (e.g., Donabedian, Juran, Deming, Triple Aim (IHI) – Berwick). Identify a practice problem that you have had some experience with as a customer or as a practitioner and explain how eliminating wasteful practices could have improved the experience. Include how your definition of quality applies to that experi...

From the hypothetical scenario described in this week’s discussion, there are various leadership strategies that I would utilize in figuring out what could be done at the nursing home to prevent avoidable ED visits. According to Spath (2018), customers or patients expect that their healthcare providers are knowledgeable about the appropriate healthcare care services they require; and this includes recommending them for the Emergency Room Department (ED). Since the healthcare setting is a ...