LC4004A Quality Improvement Tools Assessment

LC4004A Quality Improvement Tools Assessment

LC4004A Quality Improvement Tools Assessment

LC4004A Assessment Instructions

Review the details of your assessment including the rubric. You will have the ability to submit the assessment once you submit your required self-assessments and engage with your Faculty Subject Matter Expert (SME) in a substantive way about the competency.

Overview

In this Assessment, you will analyze different quality improvement tools and apply one to the practice problem that you identified in LC4002A and either revised or affirmed in LC4003A.

Submission Length: 4- to 5-pages

Looking Ahead

Over the course of Competencies LC4002A – LC4005A, you will be going through the steps of your Quality Improvement Project which will be submitted in LC4005A. During each Competency, you will complete one or more parts of the final project, and in LC4005A, you will use these parts to create the final project.

This practice experience project has six parts:

1. Analyze available evidence and identify a quality improvement practice problem;
2. Conduct a literature search finding data and evidence-based solutions/interventions to support the importance of the quality improvement practice problem;
3. Identify the quality improvement tools (Fishbone diagram, Pareto Chart, Process Flow Chart, etc.) that will display the data supporting the need for the Quality Improvement Project;
4. Apply the PDSA process to the development of the Quality Improvement Project;
5. Develop an evidence-based plan to address the quality improvement practice problem; and
6. Present the final Quality Improvement Project as a comprehensive paper and quality improvement storyboard.

The practice experience is an active learning process that provides you with the opportunity to apply your nursing knowledge by addressing a quality improvement practice problem. The practice experience is comprised of selected onsite experiences and completion of a Quality Improvement Project with guidance from your subject matter expert. For additional information on the practice experience, follow this link: 

The practice experience guide can also be found here: 

Instructions

To complete this Assessment, do the following:

• Be sure to adhere to the indicated assignment length.
• Access the following:

Before submitting your Assessment, carefully review the rubric. This is the same rubric the SME will use to evaluate your submission and it provides detailed criteria describing how to achieve or master the Competency. Many students find that understanding the requirements of the Assessment and the rubric criteria help them direct their focus and use their time most productively.

Rubric

All submissions must follow the conventions of scholarly writing. Properly formatted APA citations and references must be provided where appropriate. Submissions that do not meet these expectations will be returned without scoring.

This Assessment requires submission of one file that addresses each of the given prompts. Save your file as LC4004A_firstinitial_lastname (for example, LC4004A_J_Smith).

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Applying Quality Improvement Tools

The nursing professional uses a variety of tools when collecting and analyzing data. These tools can help with organizing and displaying as well as highlighting trends. In this Assessment, you will analyze several quality improvement tools, then apply one to your practice problem.

In a 4- to 5-page paper, address the following:

• Analyze the fishbone diagram. Explain how the information presented in the fishbone diagram might be used to help inform nursing practice when preventing medication errors.
• Analyze the Pareto chart. Include an explanation of how many medication errors there were and how this information might assist the nursing unit in preventing future medication errors.
• Analyze the process flow chart. Explain how this information might be used to help inform nursing practice for the prevention of future medication errors.
• Analyze the run chart as it relates to patient satisfaction with pain management. Explain whether the data in the run chart indicates improved or decreased satisfaction with pain management and defend your reasoning.
• Consider the practice problem that you identified in LC4002 and either revised or affirmed in LC4003. Choose either a fishbone diagram, Pareto chart, process flow chart, or run chart, and apply it to the data relating to the practice problem (that you located in LC4002).

Resources – LC4004A Quality Improvement Tools Assessment

Chapter 6, “Performance Improvement Tools” (pp. 148–149) Spath, P. (2018). Introduction to healthcare quality management (3rd ed.). Healthcare Administration Press.

Chapter 4, “Evaluating Performance” (pp. 91–92) Spath, P. (2018). Introduction to healthcare quality management (3rd ed.). Healthcare Administration Press.

Minnesota Department of Health. (n.d.). Pareto chart. https://www.health.state.mn.us/communities/practice/resources/phqitoolbox/pareto.html

IHI Open School. (2015, March 3). Whiteboard: Pareto analysis. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbDRH2ASyqQ

American Society for Quality. (2015). What is a Pareto chart. http://asq.org/learn-about-quality/cause-analysis-tools/overview/pareto.html

Chapter 23, “Managing Quality and Risk’ (p. 417) Yoder-Wise, P. (2019). Leading and managing in nursing (7th ed.). Mosby Elsevier.

Process Mapping: A Cornerstone of Quality Improvement Heher, Y. K., & Chen, Y. (2017). Process mapping: A cornerstone of quality improvement. Cancer Cytopathology. 125(12), 887–890. https://doi.org/10.1002/cncy.21946

American Society for Quality. (2016b). What is a process flow chart? http://asq.org/learn-about-quality/process-analysis-tools/overview/flowchart.html

Chapter 4, “Evaluating Performance” (pp. 79–83) Spath, P. (2018). Introduction to healthcare quality management (3rd ed.). Healthcare Administration Press.

LC4004A: Quality Improvement Tools: Analyze information from quality improvement tools. Assessment Rubric

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LC4004A Quality Improvement Tools Assessment