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-surg 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.
1) 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 will then 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.
What is your favorite leadership style?
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?
2) 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.
