Applying performance improvement tools | Nursing homework help

  

Imagine that, for about a year, your nursing unit has been involved in an intensive campaign to improve patient satisfaction scores with pain management. You are getting good data from your patients, as the length of stay on this inpatient geriatric medical nursing unit is only about 6 days. Your hospital does 100% survey to inpatients, and the response rate is about 25%, which is higher than it has been. This notwithstanding, the percent of “patient very satisfied” (top box), with a score of 5, has been in the low 70s. The national benchmark for medical surgical units like yours is about 85% very satisfied. Of all the units in your hospital, your unit is the lowest scoring on this HCAPHS survey. But as your unit is the only geriatric medical nursing unit in the hospital, you’d always thought it was the nature of the patient population.

You have been the day shift representative to the QI team, and the scores on your unit are posted monthly. Here are the numerous strategies that have been tried on your unit and the timeframes.I

Examine the strategies and interventions tried in your unit and consider the following questions: a) Were the strategies effective in creating a sustainable change on your nursing unit, and 

b) To what extent can your nurse manager and CNO count on your unit exceeding the national benchmark in the next quarter, the next year? 

That is, does this run chart have some predictive ability?

Does the run chart support the nursing unit’s decision to celebrate? 

To what extent can the leadership be confident that the trend will continue?

Based on the scenario, explain what was done successfully and where improvement was needed in the quality improvement process. Identify the performance improvement tools, and explain how they contributed to the outcome.

Respond in 4-5 paragraphs 450-550 words 

Support your response with references from the Resources and professional nursing literature. Your posts need to be written at the capstone level 

Spath, P. (2018). Introduction to healthcare quality management (3rd ed.). Chicago, IL: Health Administration Press.

  • Chapter 4, “Evaluating      Performance” (pp. 79-118)
  • Chapter 5, “Continuous      Improvement” (pp. 119-142)
  • Chapter 6, “Performance Improvement Tools”      (pp. 143-174)

Note: Although Chapter 4 is previously assigned reading, please review it in preparation for this week’s material.

Yoder-Wise, P. S. (2019). Leading and managing in nursing (7th ed.). St. Louis, MO: Mosby.

  • Chapter 19, “Building Effective Teams” (pp.      335-356)

Microsoft. (2016). Use charts and graphs in your presentation. Retrieved from https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/Use-charts-and-graphs-in-your-presentation-c74616f1-a5b2-4a37-8695-fbcc043bf526

Perla, R. J., Provost, L. P., & Murray, S. K. (2011). The run chart: A simple analytical tool for learning from variation in healthcare processes. BMJ Quality and Safety, 20(1), 46–51

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