Assignment task: This week, you will identify a problem or clinical concern of interest with your selected population
Identify your population focus. For example, is your focus pediatric patients, mental health patients, OB patients, med-surge patients, etc.?
My Focus Is Med-Surge Patients In Florida (MIAMI,FL)
Identify a problem or concern of interest within your selected population. For example, juvenile diabetes, patient falls, heart defects at birth, effects of oxygenation levels during birth, effect of anesthesia, how to motivate patients to move post-surgery, how to mitigate pain, impact of schizophrenia on patient or family, death and dying, how to treat encopresis in toddlers, etc.
I) Begin developing your QI project, starting with your PICO question.
Complete your search strategy sheet.
1) Search the literature for articles no older than 5 years that discuss evidence-based practice for your selected population and your problem focus. Include both medical and nursing articles. You should have no less than 8 articles from peer -reviewed journals. You willthen complete an APA Annotated Bibliography on 5 of the 8 peer reviewed articles. Check with your instructor if you are unsure of the quality of your peer-reviewed articles.
Do Case Study Part I
Be sure to include all of the tables that are requested.
Review carefully the statistics of CAUTI.
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Consider what interventions you would use and how you would evaluate these interventions if you were working with a patient or population with your identified problem. You will be using the QI Theory of PDCA to your week 7 Assignment.
Do Case Study Part II (It uses the QI Theory of PDSA)
Proposed Measurement Plan for Implementation: How will you measure your components of your QI Project with ideas below:
- From your research, develop a QI Change Project to implement with your selected population. For example, if you discovered nursing interventions, such as "skin to skin" contact works well with "blue babies" or babies recovering from heart defect surgery, how would you propose that you implement and evaluate your identified interventions? What measurement would you use for the outcome for your PICOT question?
II) Develop and submit a power point to present the elements of your QI Proposal. Be sure to use the Speaker notes so that you can follow the 7X7 rule for power points. If you cannot locate the Speaker Notes, then put your speaker notes on a separate slide that follows your graphics and bulleted information. Present your QI project to your preceptor/mentor.
1) Finally, write a 3-5-page reflection paper on your perceptions and response to developing your Quality Improvement project.