Interpret the data and metrics related to the effectiveness of a healthcare organization.
Assess the validity and quality of the healthcare quality improvement data that support the need for the improvement opportunity you will include in your report.
Derive insights and opportunities from the data.
Opportunity for improvement: Determine an opportunity for a healthcare quality improvement initiative for the healthcare organization you selected.
Explain how the metrics drive an opportunity for improvement.
Determine an evidence-based quality improvement tool for addressing an improvement opportunity.
Apply a problem-solving framework or tool to identify what could have been done differently based on the metrics and show and/or describe your application of the tool or framework.
Recommendation: Provide a recommendation for the organization you selected so that the organization can improve the quality and/or safety of its healthcare delivery and determine how to evaluate if your recommendations were successful.
Develop a healthcare quality improvement initiative using a framework, such as plan-do-study-act (PDSA), root cause analysis (RCA), and failure mode effect analysis (FMEA).
Determine an evaluation method for a healthcare quality improvement initiative for 1, 3, 6, and 12 months and describe that method in detail.
Determine data-collection tool(s).
Your project should provide evidence from at least five scholarly sources.
What to Submit
To complete this project, you must submit the following:
Healthcare Quality Improvement Initiative and Evaluation Report
Submit your healthcare quality improvement initiative and evaluation report as a Word document. Your submission should be approximately 4 to 6 pages