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## Guiding Questions
**Data Analysis and Quality Improvement Initiative Proposal**
This document is designed to give you questions to consider and additional guidance to help you successfully complete the Data Analysis and Quality Improvement Initiative Proposal assessment. You may find it useful to use this document as a prewriting exercise, an outlining tool, or a final check to ensure you have sufficiently addressed all the grading criteria for this assessment. This document is a resource to help you complete the assessment.
**Do not** turn in this document as your assessment submission.
**Analyze data to identify a health care issue or an area of concern.**
· What data does your institution gather? (Or, what data were provided in the media piece?)
· What is the quality of the data, and what can be learned from it? What does it tell you? What is missing?
· What is an organized way of looking at different data outputs?
· What metrics indicate opportunities for quality improvement?
· What are the trends? (Existence of data does not necessarily equate to a trend.)
· What are the outcome measures? What information do you need to calculate specific rates?
· Assess the stability of processes or outcomes. Are the outcomes fairly predictable? Identify any problematic variations or performance failures.
· Include the selected data set that was analyzed in the proposal. This could be a table or chart.
**Outline a quality improvement initiative proposal based on a selected health issue or area of concern and supporting data analysis.**
· What benchmarks align to existing quality improvement initiatives set by local, state, or federal health care policies or laws?
· What quality initiatives currently exist (if any) related to the selected issue? Why are they insufficient?
· Identify target areas for improvement.
· Define what processes can be modified to improve outcomes. You may find it helpful to review models for quality improvement initiatives in Week 4.
· Identify evidence-based strategies to improve quality.
· Evaluate quality improvement 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.
**Integrate interprofessional perspectives to lead quality improvements in patient safety, cost effectiveness, and work-life quality.**
· Define interprofessional roles and responsibilities as they relate to the data and the quality improvement initiative.
· How would you make sure that all relevant roles are fully engaged in this effort?
· What non-nursing concepts would you incorporate into the initiative?
· How would outcomes to measure the effect of the intervention affect the interprofessional team?
· Briefly reflect on the impact of the proposed initiative on work-life quality of the nursing staff and interprofessional team. How is work-life quality improved or enriched by the initiative?
**Apply effective communication strategies to promote quality improvement of interprofessional care.**
· What kind of interprofessional communication strategies will be effective to promote and ensure the success of this performance improvement plan or quality improvement initiative?
· What types of communications would you recommend in addition to writing?
· Are there any communication models (CUS, SBAR) you would include in your initiative proposal?
**Deliver a persuasive, coherent, and effective audiovisual presentation. Integrate relevant sources to support arguments, correctly formatting citations and references using current APA style.**
· Is your analysis logically structured?
· Is your analysis 7–10 PowerPoint slides, with speaker notes (not including title slide and attached reference list)?
· Is your writing clear and free from errors?
· Did you use a minimum of five sources? Were they published within the last five years?
· Are they cited in current APA format throughout the plan?
· Have you included an attached reference list?
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Prepare an evaluation (5-7 pages) of an existing QI initiative to determine if the initiative is effective.
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**Introduction**
Too often, discussions about quality health care, care costs, and outcome measures take place in isolation—various groups talking among themselves about results and enhancements. Nurses are critical to the delivery of high-quality, efficient health care. As a result, they must develop their skills in reviewing and evaluating performance reports. They also need to be able to communicate outcome measures related to quality initiatives effectively. Patient safety and positive institutional health care outcomes mandate collaboration among nursing staff members to ensure the integration of their perspectives in all quality care initiatives.
**Overview**
In the first assessment, you analyzed an adverse event or a near miss, and outlined a QI initiative to address it. This assessment will give you practice and the confidence to evaluate a quality care initiative in much the same way you might in your health care setting to help determine if the initiative is effective.
Too often, discussions about quality health care, care costs, and outcome measures take place in isolation—each group talking among themselves about results and enhancements. Because nurses are critical to the delivery of high-quality, efficient health care, it is essential that they develop the proficiency to review, evaluate performance reports, and be able to effectively communicate outcome measures related to quality initiatives. The nursing staff's perspective and the need to collaborate on quality care initiatives are fundamental to patient safety and positive institutional health care outcomes.
**Instructions**
Imagine you have been asked to prepare and deliver an analysis of an existing QI initiative at your workplace. The QI initiative you choose to analyze should be related to a specific disease, condition, or public health issue of personal or professional interest to you. The purpose of the report is to assess whether the specific quality indicators point to improved patient safety, quality of care, cost and efficiency goals, and other desired metrics. Your target audience is nurses and other health professionals with specializations or interest in your chosen condition, disease, or public health issue.
In your report, you will:
· Analyze a current QI initiative in a health care setting.
· Identify what prompted implementation of the QI initiative.
· Evaluate problems that arose during the initiative or problems that were not addressed.
· Evaluate the success of a current QI initiative through recognized benchmarks and outcome measures as required to meet national, state, or accreditation requirements.
· Identify the core performance measurements related to successful treatment or management of the condition.
· Evaluate the impact of the quality indicators on the health care facility.
· Incorporate interprofessional perspectives related to the success of actions used in the QI initiative as they relate to functionality and outcomes.
· Recommend additional indicators and protocols to improve and expand outcomes of a current quality initiative.
· Ensure your analysis conveys purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards.
Be sure to address all of the bullet points. You may also want to read the Quality Improvement Initiative Evaluation Scoring Guide to better understand the performance levels that relate to each grading criterion. Additionally, be sure to review the
[Guiding Questions: Quality Improvement Initiative Evaluation [DOCX]](https://courseroom.capella.edu/courses/46831/files/8761945/download) document and
[Vila Health: Data Analysis](https://media.capella.edu/CourseMedia/nurs6016element238713/wrapper.asp) for additional clarification about things to consider when creating your assessment.
**Additional Requirements**
Your assessment should also meet the following requirements:
·
**Length of submission**: A minimum of five but no more than seven double-spaced, typed pages, not including the title page and References section.
·
**Number of references**: Cite a minimum of four sources of scholarly or professional evidence that support your evaluation, recommendations, and plans. Current source material is defined as no older than five years unless it is a seminal work. Review the
[Nursing Master's Program (MSN) Library Guide](https://capellauniversity.libguides.com/MSN) for guidance.
·
**APA formatting**: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style. Review the
[Evidence and APA](https://lat.strategiced.com/redirect?linkid=1540) section of the Writing Center for guidance.
**Competencies Measured**
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
· Competency 2: Plan quality improvement initiatives in response to routine data surveillance.
· Recommend additional indicators and protocols to improve and expand outcomes of a quality initiative.
· Competency 3: Evaluate quality improvement initiatives using sensitive and sound outcome measures.
· Analyze a current quality improvement initiative in a health care setting.
· Evaluate the success of a current quality improvement initiative through recognized benchmarks and outcome measures as required to meet national, state, or accreditation requirements.
· Competency 4: Integrate interprofessional perspectives to lead quality improvements in patient safety, cost effectiveness, and work life quality.
· Incorporate interprofessional perspectives related to the success of actions utilized in a quality improvement initiative as they relate to functionality and outcomes.
· Competency 5: Apply effective communication strategies to promote quality improvement of interprofessional care.
· Convey purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards.
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**Assessment 3**
**Data Analysis and Quality Improvement Initiative Proposal**
Make a quality initiative proposal (7-10 PowerPoint slides) through a presentation, interpreting and communicating dashboard data to support the proposal.
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**Introduction**
Health care providers are perpetually striving to improve care quality and patient safety. To accomplish enhanced care, outcomes need to be measured. Next, data measures must be validated. Measurement and validation of information support performance improvement. Health care providers must focus attention on evidence-based best practices to improve patient outcomes.
Health informatics, along with new and improved technologies and procedures, are at the core of
_all_ quality improvement initiatives. Data analysis begins with provider documentation, researched process improvement models, and recognized quality benchmarks. All of these items work together to improve patient outcomes. Professional nurses must be able to interpret and communicate dashboard information that displays critical care metrics and outcomes along with data collected from the care delivery process.
**Overview**
_A basic principle of quality measurement is: If you can't measure it, you can't improve it._
**_–Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (2021)_**
In the previous assessment, you analyzed the effectiveness of an existing quality initiative. Now that you've done that, this assessment gives you experience interpreting and communicating dashboard data for the purpose of making a quality initiative proposal of your own. And you'll make your proposal through a PowerPoint presentation, including using speaker notes in the Notes section of the slides, much like you might in your health care setting.
Health care providers are on an endless quest to improve both care quality and patient safety. This unwavering commitment requires hospitals and care givers to increase their attention and adherence to treatment protocols to improve patient outcomes. Health informatics, along with new and improved technologies and procedures, are at the core of virtually all QI initiatives. The data gathered by providers, along with process improvement models and recognized quality benchmarks, are all part of a collaborative, continuing effort. As such, it is essential that professional nurses are able to correctly interpret and effectively communicate information revealed on dashboards that display critical care metrics.
**Instructions**
In this assessment, you will make a QI initiative proposal based on a health issue of professional interest to you. This proposal will be based on an analysis of dashboard metrics from a health care facility. You have two options:
**Option 1**
If you
**have** access to dashboard metrics related to a QI initiative proposal of interest to you:
· Analyze data from the health care facility to identify a health care issue or an area of concern. You will need access to reports and data related to care quality and patient safety. If you work in a 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 standards for compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
**Option 2**
If you
**do not have** access to a dashboard or metrics related to a QI initiative proposal:
· You may use one of the links in the following reading list to access a dashboard or metrics for a health care facility to develop the QI initiative proposal:
·
[Assessment 3: Resources](https://capella.alma.exlibrisgroup.com/leganto/public/01CAPELLA_INST/lists/2475584570006731?auth=SAML§ion=3429472480006731)
· You will follow the same instructions and provide the same deliverables as your peers who select Option 1.
Complete the following steps for your proposal:
· Analyze data to identify a health care issue or an area of concern as it relates to a state, national, or accreditation benchmark requirement relevant to your professional setting.
· Evaluate the quality of the data.
· Outline a QI initiative proposal based on the selected health issue or area of concern and supporting data analysis to improve identified dashboard metric. The interactive activity Designing a Quality Improvement Initiative can get you going on the first steps of a QI process and your assessment.
· Identify the target areas of improvement and outcome measures.
· Include the QI model that will be utilized.
· Specify evidence-based strategies that will be utilized.
· Integrate interprofessional perspectives and actions to lead quality improvements in patient safety, cost-effectiveness, and work-life quality.
· Specify roles and responsibilities.
· Apply effective collaboration strategies to promote QI of interprofessional care.
· Include specific communication tools.
· Deliver a persuasive, coherent, and effective audiovisual presentation. Integrate relevant sources to support arguments, correctly formatting citations and references using current APA style.
Be sure that your proposal, at minimum, addresses each of the bullet points. You may also want to read the Data Analysis and Quality Improvement Initiative Proposal Scoring Guide to better understand the performance levels that relate to each grading criterion. Additionally, be sure to review the
[Guiding Questions: Data Analysis and Quality Improvement Initiative Proposal [DOCX]](https://courseroom.capella.edu/courses/46831/files/8761942/download) document for additional clarification about things to consider when creating your assessment.
**Recording Your Presentation**
Before starting to record your presentation make sure you have:
· Set up and tested your microphone and headset using the installation instructions provided by the manufacturer. You only need to use the headset if your audio is not clear or high quality when captured by the microphone.
· Practice using the equipment to ensure the audio quality is sufficient.
· Consult
[Using Kaltura](https://lat.strategiced.com/redirect?linkid=4533) for guidance on how to record your presentation and upload it in the courseroom.
· Microsoft PowerPoint also allows you to record your narration with your slides. If you choose this option, simply submit your presentation to the appropriate area of the courseroom. Your narration will be included with your slides.
· Remember to practice delivering and recording your presentation multiple times to ensure effective delivery.
Note: If you require the use of assistive technology or alternative communication methods to participate in this activity, please contact Disability Services at
[DisabilityServices@Capella.edu](mailto:DisabilityServices@Capella.edu) to request accommodations.
**Additional Requirements**
Your assessment should also meet the following requirements:
·
**Length of submission**: 7–10 PowerPoint slides, with speaker's notes, not including title slide and attached reference list. Balance text with visuals. Avoid text-heavy slides. Use speaker's notes for additional content.
·
**Length of presentation**: No more than 10 minutes.
·
**What to submit**: Along with your recording, submit your slides with speaker notes as a PDF. Save your PowerPoint files as a PDF with notes. The speaker notes will be processed through Turnitin.
·
**Number of references**: Cite a minimum of five sources (no older than seven years, unless a seminal work) of scholarly or professional evidence to support your evaluation, recommendations, and plans. Review the
[Nursing Master's Program (MSN) Library Guide](https://capellauniversity.libguides.com/MSN) for guidance.
·
**APA formatting**: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style. Review the
[Evidence and APA](https://lat.strategiced.com/redirect?linkid=1540) section of the Writing Center for guidance.
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**Assessment 3**
**Data Analysis and Quality Improvement Initiative Proposal**
Make a quality initiative proposal (7-10 PowerPoint slides) through a presentation, interpreting and communicating dashboard data to support the proposal.
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**Introduction**
Health care providers are perpetually striving to improve care quality and patient safety. To accomplish enhanced care, outcomes need to be measured. Next, data measures must be validated. Measurement and validation of information support performance improvement. Health care providers must focus attention on evidence-based best practices to improve patient outcomes.
Health informatics, along with new and improved technologies and procedures, are at the core of
_all_ quality improvement initiatives. Data analysis begins with provider documentation, researched process improvement models, and recognized quality benchmarks. All of these items work together to improve patient outcomes. Professional nurses must be able to interpret and communicate dashboard information that displays critical care metrics and outcomes along with data collected from the care delivery process.
**Overview**
_A basic principle of quality measurement is: If you can't measure it, you can't improve it._
**_–Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (2021)_**
In the previous assessment, you analyzed the effectiveness of an existing quality initiative. Now that you've done that, this assessment gives you experience interpreting and communicating dashboard data for the purpose of making a quality initiative proposal of your own. And you'll make your proposal through a PowerPoint presentation, including using speaker notes in the Notes section of the slides, much like you might in your health care setting.
Health care providers are on an endless quest to improve both care quality and patient safety. This unwavering commitment requires hospitals and care givers to increase their attention and adherence to treatment protocols to improve patient outcomes. Health informatics, along with new and improved technologies and procedures, are at the core of virtually all QI initiatives. The data gathered by providers, along with process improvement models and recognized quality benchmarks, are all part of a collaborative, continuing effort. As such, it is essential that professional nurses are able to correctly interpret and effectively communicate information revealed on dashboards that display critical care metrics.
**Instructions**
In this assessment, you will make a QI initiative proposal based on a health issue of professional interest to you. This proposal will be based on an analysis of dashboard metrics from a health care facility. You have two options:
**Option 1**
If you
**have** access to dashboard metrics related to a QI initiative proposal of interest to you:
· Analyze data from the health care facility to identify a health care issue or an area of concern. You will need access to reports and data related to care quality and patient safety. If you work in a 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 standards for compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
**Option 2**
If you
**do not have** access to a dashboard or metrics related to a QI initiative proposal:
· You may use one of the links in the following reading list to access a dashboard or metrics for a health care facility to develop the QI initiative proposal:
·
[Assessment 3: Resources](https://capella.alma.exlibrisgroup.com/leganto/public/01CAPELLA_INST/lists/2475584570006731?auth=SAML§ion=3429472480006731)
· You will follow the same instructions and provide the same deliverables as your peers who select Option 1.
Complete the following steps for your proposal:
· Analyze data to identify a health care issue or an area of concern as it relates to a state, national, or accreditation benchmark requirement relevant to your professional setting.
· Evaluate the quality of the data.
· Outline a QI initiative proposal based on the selected health issue or area of concern and supporting data analysis to improve identified dashboard metric. The interactive activity Designing a Quality Improvement Initiative can get you going on the first steps of a QI process and your assessment.
· Identify the target areas of improvement and outcome measures.
· Include the QI model that will be utilized.
· Specify evidence-based strategies that will be utilized.
· Integrate interprofessional perspectives and actions to lead quality improvements in patient safety, cost-effectiveness, and work-life quality.
· Specify roles and responsibilities.
· Apply effective collaboration strategies to promote QI of interprofessional care.
· Include specific communication tools.
· Deliver a persuasive, coherent, and effective audiovisual presentation. Integrate relevant sources to support arguments, correctly formatting citations and references using current APA style.
Be sure that your proposal, at minimum, addresses each of the bullet points. You may also want to read the Data Analysis and Quality Improvement Initiative Proposal Scoring Guide to better understand the performance levels that relate to each grading criterion. Additionally, be sure to review the
[Guiding Questions: Data Analysis and Quality Improvement Initiative Proposal [DOCX]](https://courseroom.capella.edu/courses/46831/files/8761942/download) document for additional clarification about things to consider when creating your assessment.
**Recording Your Presentation**
Before starting to record your presentation make sure you have:
· Set up and tested your microphone and headset using the installation instructions provided by the manufacturer. You only need to use the headset if your audio is not clear or high quality when captured by the microphone.
· Practice using the equipment to ensure the audio quality is sufficient.
· Consult
[Using Kaltura](https://lat.strategiced.com/redirect?linkid=4533) for guidance on how to record your presentation and upload it in the courseroom.
· Microsoft PowerPoint also allows you to record your narration with your slides. If you choose this option, simply submit your presentation to the appropriate area of the courseroom. Your narration will be included with your slides.
· Remember to practice delivering and recording your presentation multiple times to ensure effective delivery.
Note: If you require the use of assistive technology or alternative communication methods to participate in this activity, please contact Disability Services at
[DisabilityServices@Capella.edu](mailto:DisabilityServices@Capella.edu) to request accommodations.
**Additional Requirements**
Your assessment should also meet the following requirements:
·
**Length of submission**: 7–10 PowerPoint slides, with speaker's notes, not including title slide and attached reference list. Balance text with visuals. Avoid text-heavy slides. Use speaker's notes for additional content.
·
**Length of presentation**: No more than 10 minutes.
·
**What to submit**: Along with your recording, submit your slides with speaker notes as a PDF. Save your PowerPoint files as a PDF with notes. The speaker notes will be processed through Turnitin.
·
**Number of references**: Cite a minimum of five sources (no older than seven years, unless a seminal work) of scholarly or professional evidence to support your evaluation, recommendations, and plans. Review the
[Nursing Master's Program (MSN) Library Guide](https://capellauniversity.libguides.com/MSN) for guidance.
·
**APA formatting**: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style. Review the
[Evidence and APA](https://lat.strategiced.com/redirect?linkid=1540) section of the Writing Center for guidance.
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## Guiding Questions
**Data Analysis and Quality Improvement Initiative Proposal**
This document is designed to give you questions to consider and additional guidance to help you successfully complete the Data Analysis and Quality Improvement Initiative Proposal assessment. You may find it useful to use this document as a prewriting exercise, an outlining tool, or a final check to ensure you have sufficiently addressed all the grading criteria for this assessment. This document is a resource to help you complete the assessment.
**Do not** turn in this document as your assessment submission.
**Analyze data to identify a health care issue or an area of concern.**
· What data does your institution gather? (Or, what data were provided in the media piece?)
· What is the quality of the data, and what can be learned from it? What does it tell you? What is missing?
· What is an organized way of looking at different data outputs?
· What metrics indicate opportunities for quality improvement?
· What are the trends? (Existence of data does not necessarily equate to a trend.)
· What are the outcome measures? What information do you need to calculate specific rates?
· Assess the stability of processes or outcomes. Are the outcomes fairly predictable? Identify any problematic variations or performance failures.
· Include the selected data set that was analyzed in the proposal. This could be a table or chart.
**Outline a quality improvement initiative proposal based on a selected health issue or area of concern and supporting data analysis.**
· What benchmarks align to existing quality improvement initiatives set by local, state, or federal health care policies or laws?
· What quality initiatives currently exist (if any) related to the selected issue? Why are they insufficient?
· Identify target areas for improvement.
· Define what processes can be modified to improve outcomes. You may find it helpful to review models for quality improvement initiatives in Week 4.
· Identify evidence-based strategies to improve quality.
· Evaluate quality improvement 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.
**Integrate interprofessional perspectives to lead quality improvements in patient safety, cost effectiveness, and work-life quality.**
· Define interprofessional roles and responsibilities as they relate to the data and the quality improvement initiative.
· How would you make sure that all relevant roles are fully engaged in this effort?
· What non-nursing concepts would you incorporate into the initiative?
· How would outcomes to measure the effect of the intervention affect the interprofessional team?
· Briefly reflect on the impact of the proposed initiative on work-life quality of the nursing staff and interprofessional team. How is work-life quality improved or enriched by the initiative?
**Apply effective communication strategies to promote quality improvement of interprofessional care.**
· What kind of interprofessional communication strategies will be effective to promote and ensure the success of this performance improvement plan or quality improvement initiative?
· What types of communications would you recommend in addition to writing?
· Are there any communication models (CUS, SBAR) you would include in your initiative proposal?
**Deliver a persuasive, coherent, and effective audiovisual presentation. Integrate relevant sources to support arguments, correctly formatting citations and references using current APA style.**
· Is your analysis logically structured?
· Is your analysis 7–10 PowerPoint slides, with speaker notes (not including title slide and attached reference list)?
· Is your writing clear and free from errors?
· Did you use a minimum of five sources? Were they published within the last five years?
· Are they cited in current APA format throughout the plan?
· Have you included an attached reference list?
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**## 6016_assessment2_instructions.docx**
Prepare an evaluation (5-7 pages) of an existing QI initiative to determine if the initiative is effective.
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**Introduction**
Too often, discussions about quality health care, care costs, and outcome measures take place in isolation—various groups talking among themselves about results and enhancements. Nurses are critical to the delivery of high-quality, efficient health care. As a result, they must develop their skills in reviewing and evaluating performance reports. They also need to be able to communicate outcome measures related to quality initiatives effectively. Patient safety and positive institutional health care outcomes mandate collaboration among nursing staff members to ensure the integration of their perspectives in all quality care initiatives.
**Overview**
In the first assessment, you analyzed an adverse event or a near miss, and outlined a QI initiative to address it. This assessment will give you practice and the confidence to evaluate a quality care initiative in much the same way you might in your health care setting to help determine if the initiative is effective.
Too often, discussions about quality health care, care costs, and outcome measures take place in isolation—each group talking among themselves about results and enhancements. Because nurses are critical to the delivery of high-quality, efficient health care, it is essential that they develop the proficiency to review, evaluate performance reports, and be able to effectively communicate outcome measures related to quality initiatives. The nursing staff's perspective and the need to collaborate on quality care initiatives are fundamental to patient safety and positive institutional health care outcomes.
**Instructions**
Imagine you have been asked to prepare and deliver an analysis of an existing QI initiative at your workplace. The QI initiative you choose to analyze should be related to a specific disease, condition, or public health issue of personal or professional interest to you. The purpose of the report is to assess whether the specific quality indicators point to improved patient safety, quality of care, cost and efficiency goals, and other desired metrics. Your target audience is nurses and other health professionals with specializations or interest in your chosen condition, disease, or public health issue.
In your report, you will:
· Analyze a current QI initiative in a health care setting.
· Identify what prompted implementation of the QI initiative.
· Evaluate problems that arose during the initiative or problems that were not addressed.
· Evaluate the success of a current QI initiative through recognized benchmarks and outcome measures as required to meet national, state, or accreditation requirements.
· Identify the core performance measurements related to successful treatment or management of the condition.
· Evaluate the impact of the quality indicators on the health care facility.
· Incorporate interprofessional perspectives related to the success of actions used in the QI initiative as they relate to functionality and outcomes.
· Recommend additional indicators and protocols to improve and expand outcomes of a current quality initiative.
· Ensure your analysis conveys purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards.
Be sure to address all of the bullet points. You may also want to read the Quality Improvement Initiative Evaluation Scoring Guide to better understand the performance levels that relate to each grading criterion. Additionally, be sure to review the
[Guiding Questions: Quality Improvement Initiative Evaluation [DOCX]](https://courseroom.capella.edu/courses/46831/files/8761945/download) document and
[Vila Health: Data Analysis](https://media.capella.edu/CourseMedia/nurs6016element238713/wrapper.asp) for additional clarification about things to consider when creating your assessment.
**Additional Requirements**
Your assessment should also meet the following requirements:
·
**Length of submission**: A minimum of five but no more than seven double-spaced, typed pages, not including the title page and References section.
·
**Number of references**: Cite a minimum of four sources of scholarly or professional evidence that support your evaluation, recommendations, and plans. Current source material is defined as no older than five years unless it is a seminal work. Review the
[Nursing Master's Program (MSN) Library Guide](https://capellauniversity.libguides.com/MSN) for guidance.
·
**APA formatting**: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style. Review the
[Evidence and APA](https://lat.strategiced.com/redirect?linkid=1540) section of the Writing Center for guidance.
**Competencies Measured**
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
· Competency 2: Plan quality improvement initiatives in response to routine data surveillance.
· Recommend additional indicators and protocols to improve and expand outcomes of a quality initiative.
· Competency 3: Evaluate quality improvement initiatives using sensitive and sound outcome measures.
· Analyze a current quality improvement initiative in a health care setting.
· Evaluate the success of a current quality improvement initiative through recognized benchmarks and outcome measures as required to meet national, state, or accreditation requirements.
· Competency 4: Integrate interprofessional perspectives to lead quality improvements in patient safety, cost effectiveness, and work life quality.
· Incorporate interprofessional perspectives related to the success of actions utilized in a quality improvement initiative as they relate to functionality and outcomes.
· Competency 5: Apply effective communication strategies to promote quality improvement of interprofessional care.
· Convey purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards.
**## 6016_Assessment3_instructions.docx**
**Assessment 3**
**Data Analysis and Quality Improvement Initiative Proposal**
Make a quality initiative proposal (7-10 PowerPoint slides) through a presentation, interpreting and communicating dashboard data to support the proposal.
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**Introduction**
Health care providers are perpetually striving to improve care quality and patient safety. To accomplish enhanced care, outcomes need to be measured. Next, data measures must be validated. Measurement and validation of information support performance improvement. Health care providers must focus attention on evidence-based best practices to improve patient outcomes.
Health informatics, along with new and improved technologies and procedures, are at the core of
_all_ quality improvement initiatives. Data analysis begins with provider documentation, researched process improvement models, and recognized quality benchmarks. All of these items work together to improve patient outcomes. Professional nurses must be able to interpret and communicate dashboard information that displays critical care metrics and outcomes along with data collected from the care delivery process.
**Overview**
_A basic principle of quality measurement is: If you can't measure it, you can't improve it._
**_–Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (2021)_**
In the previous assessment, you analyzed the effectiveness of an existing quality initiative. Now that you've done that, this assessment gives you experience interpreting and communicating dashboard data for the purpose of making a quality initiative proposal of your own. And you'll make your proposal through a PowerPoint presentation, including using speaker notes in the Notes section of the slides, much like you might in your health care setting.
Health care providers are on an endless quest to improve both care quality and patient safety. This unwavering commitment requires hospitals and care givers to increase their attention and adherence to treatment protocols to improve patient outcomes. Health informatics, along with new and improved technologies and procedures, are at the core of virtually all QI initiatives. The data gathered by providers, along with process improvement models and recognized quality benchmarks, are all part of a collaborative, continuing effort. As such, it is essential that professional nurses are able to correctly interpret and effectively communicate information revealed on dashboards that display critical care metrics.
**Instructions**
In this assessment, you will make a QI initiative proposal based on a health issue of professional interest to you. This proposal will be based on an analysis of dashboard metrics from a health care facility. You have two options:
**Option 1**
If you
**have** access to dashboard metrics related to a QI initiative proposal of interest to you:
· Analyze data from the health care facility to identify a health care issue or an area of concern. You will need access to reports and data related to care quality and patient safety. If you work in a 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 standards for compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
**Option 2**
If you
**do not have** access to a dashboard or metrics related to a QI initiative proposal:
· You may use one of the links in the following reading list to access a dashboard or metrics for a health care facility to develop the QI initiative proposal:
·
[Assessment 3: Resources](https://capella.alma.exlibrisgroup.com/leganto/public/01CAPELLA_INST/lists/2475584570006731?auth=SAML§ion=3429472480006731)
· You will follow the same instructions and provide the same deliverables as your peers who select Option 1.
Complete the following steps for your proposal:
· Analyze data to identify a health care issue or an area of concern as it relates to a state, national, or accreditation benchmark requirement relevant to your professional setting.
· Evaluate the quality of the data.
· Outline a QI initiative proposal based on the selected health issue or area of concern and supporting data analysis to improve identified dashboard metric. The interactive activity Designing a Quality Improvement Initiative can get you going on the first steps of a QI process and your assessment.
· Identify the target areas of improvement and outcome measures.
· Include the QI model that will be utilized.
· Specify evidence-based strategies that will be utilized.
· Integrate interprofessional perspectives and actions to lead quality improvements in patient safety, cost-effectiveness, and work-life quality.
· Specify roles and responsibilities.
· Apply effective collaboration strategies to promote QI of interprofessional care.
· Include specific communication tools.
· Deliver a persuasive, coherent, and effective audiovisual presentation. Integrate relevant sources to support arguments, correctly formatting citations and references using current APA style.
Be sure that your proposal, at minimum, addresses each of the bullet points. You may also want to read the Data Analysis and Quality Improvement Initiative Proposal Scoring Guide to better understand the performance levels that relate to each grading criterion. Additionally, be sure to review the
[Guiding Questions: Data Analysis and Quality Improvement Initiative Proposal [DOCX]](https://courseroom.capella.edu/courses/46831/files/8761942/download) document for additional clarification about things to consider when creating your assessment.
**Recording Your Presentation**
Before starting to record your presentation make sure you have:
· Set up and tested your microphone and headset using the installation instructions provided by the manufacturer. You only need to use the headset if your audio is not clear or high quality when captured by the microphone.
· Practice using the equipment to ensure the audio quality is sufficient.
· Consult
[Using Kaltura](https://lat.strategiced.com/redirect?linkid=4533) for guidance on how to record your presentation and upload it in the courseroom.
· Microsoft PowerPoint also allows you to record your narration with your slides. If you choose this option, simply submit your presentation to the appropriate area of the courseroom. Your narration will be included with your slides.
· Remember to practice delivering and recording your presentation multiple times to ensure effective delivery.
Note: If you require the use of assistive technology or alternative communication methods to participate in this activity, please contact Disability Services at
[DisabilityServices@Capella.edu](mailto:DisabilityServices@Capella.edu) to request accommodations.
**Additional Requirements**
Your assessment should also meet the following requirements:
·
**Length of submission**: 7–10 PowerPoint slides, with speaker's notes, not including title slide and attached reference list. Balance text with visuals. Avoid text-heavy slides. Use speaker's notes for additional content.
·
**Length of presentation**: No more than 10 minutes.
·
**What to submit**: Along with your recording, submit your slides with speaker notes as a PDF. Save your PowerPoint files as a PDF with notes. The speaker notes will be processed through Turnitin.
·
**Number of references**: Cite a minimum of five sources (no older than seven years, unless a seminal work) of scholarly or professional evidence to support your evaluation, recommendations, and plans. Review the
[Nursing Master's Program (MSN) Library Guide](https://capellauniversity.libguides.com/MSN) for guidance.
·
**APA formatting**: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style. Review the
[Evidence and APA](https://lat.strategiced.com/redirect?linkid=1540) section of the Writing Center for guidance.
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## Guiding Questions
**Data Analysis and Quality Improvement Initiative Proposal**
This document is designed to give you questions to consider and additional guidance to help you successfully complete the Data Analysis and Quality Improvement Initiative Proposal assessment. You may find it useful to use this document as a prewriting exercise, an outlining tool, or a final check to ensure you have sufficiently addressed all the grading criteria for this assessment. This document is a resource to help you complete the assessment.
**Do not** turn in this document as your assessment submission.
**Analyze data to identify a health care issue or an area of concern.**
· What data does your institution gather? (Or, what data were provided in the media piece?)
· What is the quality of the data, and what can be learned from it? What does it tell you? What is missing?
· What is an organized way of looking at different data outputs?
· What metrics indicate opportunities for quality improvement?
· What are the trends? (Existence of data does not necessarily equate to a trend.)
· What are the outcome measures? What information do you need to calculate specific rates?
· Assess the stability of processes or outcomes. Are the outcomes fairly predictable? Identify any problematic variations or performance failures.
· Include the selected data set that was analyzed in the proposal. This could be a table or chart.
**Outline a quality improvement initiative proposal based on a selected health issue or area of concern and supporting data analysis.**
· What benchmarks align to existing quality improvement initiatives set by local, state, or federal health care policies or laws?
· What quality initiatives currently exist (if any) related to the selected issue? Why are they insufficient?
· Identify target areas for improvement.
· Define what processes can be modified to improve outcomes. You may find it helpful to review models for quality improvement initiatives in Week 4.
· Identify evidence-based strategies to improve quality.
· Evaluate quality improvement 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.
**Integrate interprofessional perspectives to lead quality improvements in patient safety, cost effectiveness, and work-life quality.**
· Define interprofessional roles and responsibilities as they relate to the data and the quality improvement initiative.
· How would you make sure that all relevant roles are fully engaged in this effort?
· What non-nursing concepts would you incorporate into the initiative?
· How would outcomes to measure the effect of the intervention affect the interprofessional team?
· Briefly reflect on the impact of the proposed initiative on work-life quality of the nursing staff and interprofessional team. How is work-life quality improved or enriched by the initiative?
**Apply effective communication strategies to promote quality improvement of interprofessional care.**
· What kind of interprofessional communication strategies will be effective to promote and ensure the success of this performance improvement plan or quality improvement initiative?
· What types of communications would you recommend in addition to writing?
· Are there any communication models (CUS, SBAR) you would include in your initiative proposal?
**Deliver a persuasive, coherent, and effective audiovisual presentation. Integrate relevant sources to support arguments, correctly formatting citations and references using current APA style.**
· Is your analysis logically structured?
· Is your analysis 7–10 PowerPoint slides, with speaker notes (not including title slide and attached reference list)?
· Is your writing clear and free from errors?
· Did you use a minimum of five sources? Were they published within the last five years?
· Are they cited in current APA format throughout the plan?
· Have you included an attached reference list?
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Prepare an evaluation (5-7 pages) of an existing QI initiative to determine if the initiative is effective.
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**Introduction**
Too often, discussions about quality health care, care costs, and outcome measures take place in isolation—various groups talking among themselves about results and enhancements. Nurses are critical to the delivery of high-quality, efficient health care. As a result, they must develop their skills in reviewing and evaluating performance reports. They also need to be able to communicate outcome measures related to quality initiatives effectively. Patient safety and positive institutional health care outcomes mandate collaboration among nursing staff members to ensure the integration of their perspectives in all quality care initiatives.
**Overview**
In the first assessment, you analyzed an adverse event or a near miss, and outlined a QI initiative to address it. This assessment will give you practice and the confidence to evaluate a quality care initiative in much the same way you might in your health care setting to help determine if the initiative is effective.
Too often, discussions about quality health care, care costs, and outcome measures take place in isolation—each group talking among themselves about results and enhancements. Because nurses are critical to the delivery of high-quality, efficient health care, it is essential that they develop the proficiency to review, evaluate performance reports, and be able to effectively communicate outcome measures related to quality initiatives. The nursing staff's perspective and the need to collaborate on quality care initiatives are fundamental to patient safety and positive institutional health care outcomes.
**Instructions**
Imagine you have been asked to prepare and deliver an analysis of an existing QI initiative at your workplace. The QI initiative you choose to analyze should be related to a specific disease, condition, or public health issue of personal or professional interest to you. The purpose of the report is to assess whether the specific quality indicators point to improved patient safety, quality of care, cost and efficiency goals, and other desired metrics. Your target audience is nurses and other health professionals with specializations or interest in your chosen condition, disease, or public health issue.
In your report, you will:
· Analyze a current QI initiative in a health care setting.
· Identify what prompted implementation of the QI initiative.
· Evaluate problems that arose during the initiative or problems that were not addressed.
· Evaluate the success of a current QI initiative through recognized benchmarks and outcome measures as required to meet national, state, or accreditation requirements.
· Identify the core performance measurements related to successful treatment or management of the condition.
· Evaluate the impact of the quality indicators on the health care facility.
· Incorporate interprofessional perspectives related to the success of actions used in the QI initiative as they relate to functionality and outcomes.
· Recommend additional indicators and protocols to improve and expand outcomes of a current quality initiative.
· Ensure your analysis conveys purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards.
Be sure to address all of the bullet points. You may also want to read the Quality Improvement Initiative Evaluation Scoring Guide to better understand the performance levels that relate to each grading criterion. Additionally, be sure to review the
[Guiding Questions: Quality Improvement Initiative Evaluation [DOCX]](https://courseroom.capella.edu/courses/46831/files/8761945/download) document and
[Vila Health: Data Analysis](https://media.capella.edu/CourseMedia/nurs6016element238713/wrapper.asp) for additional clarification about things to consider when creating your assessment.
**Additional Requirements**
Your assessment should also meet the following requirements:
·
**Length of submission**: A minimum of five but no more than seven double-spaced, typed pages, not including the title page and References section.
·
**Number of references**: Cite a minimum of four sources of scholarly or professional evidence that support your evaluation, recommendations, and plans. Current source material is defined as no older than five years unless it is a seminal work. Review the
[Nursing Master's Program (MSN) Library Guide](https://capellauniversity.libguides.com/MSN) for guidance.
·
**APA formatting**: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style. Review the
[Evidence and APA](https://lat.strategiced.com/redirect?linkid=1540) section of the Writing Center for guidance.
**Competencies Measured**
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
· Competency 2: Plan quality improvement initiatives in response to routine data surveillance.
· Recommend additional indicators and protocols to improve and expand outcomes of a quality initiative.
· Competency 3: Evaluate quality improvement initiatives using sensitive and sound outcome measures.
· Analyze a current quality improvement initiative in a health care setting.
· Evaluate the success of a current quality improvement initiative through recognized benchmarks and outcome measures as required to meet national, state, or accreditation requirements.
· Competency 4: Integrate interprofessional perspectives to lead quality improvements in patient safety, cost effectiveness, and work life quality.
· Incorporate interprofessional perspectives related to the success of actions utilized in a quality improvement initiative as they relate to functionality and outcomes.
· Competency 5: Apply effective communication strategies to promote quality improvement of interprofessional care.
· Convey purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards.
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**Assessment 3**
**Data Analysis and Quality Improvement Initiative Proposal**
Make a quality initiative proposal (7-10 PowerPoint slides) through a presentation, interpreting and communicating dashboard data to support the proposal.
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**Introduction**
Health care providers are perpetually striving to improve care quality and patient safety. To accomplish enhanced care, outcomes need to be measured. Next, data measures must be validated. Measurement and validation of information support performance improvement. Health care providers must focus attention on evidence-based best practices to improve patient outcomes.
Health informatics, along with new and improved technologies and procedures, are at the core of
_all_ quality improvement initiatives. Data analysis begins with provider documentation, researched process improvement models, and recognized quality benchmarks. All of these items work together to improve patient outcomes. Professional nurses must be able to interpret and communicate dashboard information that displays critical care metrics and outcomes along with data collected from the care delivery process.
**Overview**
_A basic principle of quality measurement is: If you can't measure it, you can't improve it._
**_–Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (2021)_**
In the previous assessment, you analyzed the effectiveness of an existing quality initiative. Now that you've done that, this assessment gives you experience interpreting and communicating dashboard data for the purpose of making a quality initiative proposal of your own. And you'll make your proposal through a PowerPoint presentation, including using speaker notes in the Notes section of the slides, much like you might in your health care setting.
Health care providers are on an endless quest to improve both care quality and patient safety. This unwavering commitment requires hospitals and care givers to increase their attention and adherence to treatment protocols to improve patient outcomes. Health informatics, along with new and improved technologies and procedures, are at the core of virtually all QI initiatives. The data gathered by providers, along with process improvement models and recognized quality benchmarks, are all part of a collaborative, continuing effort. As such, it is essential that professional nurses are able to correctly interpret and effectively communicate information revealed on dashboards that display critical care metrics.
**Instructions**
In this assessment, you will make a QI initiative proposal based on a health issue of professional interest to you. This proposal will be based on an analysis of dashboard metrics from a health care facility. You have two options:
**Option 1**
If you
**have** access to dashboard metrics related to a QI initiative proposal of interest to you:
· Analyze data from the health care facility to identify a health care issue or an area of concern. You will need access to reports and data related to care quality and patient safety. If you work in a 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 standards for compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
**Option 2**
If you
**do not have** access to a dashboard or metrics related to a QI initiative proposal:
· You may use one of the links in the following reading list to access a dashboard or metrics for a health care facility to develop the QI initiative proposal:
·
[Assessment 3: Resources](https://capella.alma.exlibrisgroup.com/leganto/public/01CAPELLA_INST/lists/2475584570006731?auth=SAML§ion=3429472480006731)
· You will follow the same instructions and provide the same deliverables as your peers who select Option 1.
Complete the following steps for your proposal:
· Analyze data to identify a health care issue or an area of concern as it relates to a state, national, or accreditation benchmark requirement relevant to your professional setting.
· Evaluate the quality of the data.
· Outline a QI initiative proposal based on the selected health issue or area of concern and supporting data analysis to improve identified dashboard metric. The interactive activity Designing a Quality Improvement Initiative can get you going on the first steps of a QI process and your assessment.
· Identify the target areas of improvement and outcome measures.
· Include the QI model that will be utilized.
· Specify evidence-based strategies that will be utilized.
· Integrate interprofessional perspectives and actions to lead quality improvements in patient safety, cost-effectiveness, and work-life quality.
· Specify roles and responsibilities.
· Apply effective collaboration strategies to promote QI of interprofessional care.
· Include specific communication tools.
· Deliver a persuasive, coherent, and effective audiovisual presentation. Integrate relevant sources to support arguments, correctly formatting citations and references using current APA style.
Be sure that your proposal, at minimum, addresses each of the bullet points. You may also want to read the Data Analysis and Quality Improvement Initiative Proposal Scoring Guide to better understand the performance levels that relate to each grading criterion. Additionally, be sure to review the
[Guiding Questions: Data Analysis and Quality Improvement Initiative Proposal [DOCX]](https://courseroom.capella.edu/courses/46831/files/8761942/download) document for additional clarification about things to consider when creating your assessment.
**Recording Your Presentation**
Before starting to record your presentation make sure you have:
· Set up and tested your microphone and headset using the installation instructions provided by the manufacturer. You only need to use the headset if your audio is not clear or high quality when captured by the microphone.
· Practice using the equipment to ensure the audio quality is sufficient.
· Consult
[Using Kaltura](https://lat.strategiced.com/redirect?linkid=4533) for guidance on how to record your presentation and upload it in the courseroom.
· Microsoft PowerPoint also allows you to record your narration with your slides. If you choose this option, simply submit your presentation to the appropriate area of the courseroom. Your narration will be included with your slides.
· Remember to practice delivering and recording your presentation multiple times to ensure effective delivery.
Note: If you require the use of assistive technology or alternative communication methods to participate in this activity, please contact Disability Services at
[DisabilityServices@Capella.edu](mailto:DisabilityServices@Capella.edu) to request accommodations.
**Additional Requirements**
Your assessment should also meet the following requirements:
·
**Length of submission**: 7–10 PowerPoint slides, with speaker's notes, not including title slide and attached reference list. Balance text with visuals. Avoid text-heavy slides. Use speaker's notes for additional content.
·
**Length of presentation**: No more than 10 minutes.
·
**What to submit**: Along with your recording, submit your slides with speaker notes as a PDF. Save your PowerPoint files as a PDF with notes. The speaker notes will be processed through Turnitin.
·
**Number of references**: Cite a minimum of five sources (no older than seven years, unless a seminal work) of scholarly or professional evidence to support your evaluation, recommendations, and plans. Review the
[Nursing Master's Program (MSN) Library Guide](https://capellauniversity.libguides.com/MSN) for guidance.
·
**APA formatting**: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style. Review the
[Evidence and APA](https://lat.strategiced.com/redirect?linkid=1540) section of the Writing Center for guidance.
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