You have been asked to prepare and deliver an analysis of an existing quality improvement 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 specific quality indicators point to improved patient safety, quality of care, cost and efficiency goals, and other desired metrics.
Your target audience consists of nurses and other health professionals with specializations or interest in your selected condition, disease, or issue. In your report, you will define the disease, analyze how the condition is managed, identify the core performance measurements used to treat or manage the condition, and evaluate the impact of the quality indicators on the health care facility:
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delineate tasks to fulfill the assessment requirements. Be sure that your Quality Improvement Initiative Evaluation addresses all of the content below. You may also want to read the scoring guide to better understand the performance levels that relate to each grading criterion.
Evaluate a QI initiative and explain what prompted the implementation. Detail problems that were not addressed and any issues that arose from the initiative.
Evaluate the success of a current quality improvement initiative through recognized benchmarks and outcome measures.
Analyze the benchmarks that were used to evaluate success. Detail what was the most successful, as well as what outcome measures are missing or could be added.
Incorporate interprofessional perspectives related to initiative functionality and outcomes.
Integrate the perspectives of interprofessional team members involved in the initiative. Detail who you talked to, their professions, and the impact of their perspectives on your analysis.
Recommend additional indicators and protocols to improve and expand quality outcomes of a quality initiative.
Recommend specific process or protocol changes as well as added technologies that would improve quality outcomes.
Communicate evaluation and analysis in a professional and effective manner, writing content clearly and logically with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
Integrate relevant sources to support arguments, correctly formatting citations and references using current APA style.
Demonstrates achievement of scholarly inquiry for professional and academic topics.
Presentation of information was exceptional and included all of the following elements:
Provides evidence of scholarly inquiry relevant to required TD topic(s).
Presents specific information from scholarly sources to develop a comprehensive presentation of facts.
Uses at least one outside scholarly reference that is relevant, less than 5 years old (use of older references requires instructor permission) and reliable for the required topic.*
Uses in-text citation and full reference at end of posting when presenting another person’s thoughts as quotes or paraphrase of information.
Presentation of information was good, but was superficial in places and included all of the following elements:
Provides evidence of scholarly inquiry relevant to required TD topic(s).
Presents specific information from scholarly sources to develop a comprehensive presentation of facts.
Uses at least one outside scholarly reference that is relevant, less than 5 years old (use of older references requires instructor permission) and reliable for the required topic.*
Uses in-text citation and full reference at end of posting when presenting another person’s thoughts as quotes or paraphrase of information.
Presentation of information was minimally demonstrated in all of the following elements:
Provides evidence of scholarly inquiry relevant to required TD topic(s).
Presents specific information from scholarly sources to develop a comprehensive presentation of facts.
Uses at least one outside scholarly reference that is relevant, less than 5 years old (use of older references requires instructor permission) and reliable for the required topic.*
Uses in-text citation and full reference at end of posting when presenting another person’s thoughts as quotes or paraphrase of information.
Presentation of information is unsatisfactory in one of the following elements:
Provides evidence of scholarly inquiry relevant to required TD topic(s).
Presents specific information from scholarly sources to develop a comprehensive presentation of facts.
Uses at least one outside scholarly reference that is relevant, less than 5 years old (use of older references requires instructor permission) and reliable for the required topic.*
Uses in-text citation and full reference at end of posting when presenting another person’s thoughts as quotes or paraphrase of information.
Presentation of information is unsatisfactory in two of the following elements:
Provides evidence of scholarly inquiry relevant to required TD topic(s).
Presents specific information from scholarly sources to develop a comprehensive presentation of facts.
Uses at least one outside scholarly reference that is relevant, less than 5 years old (use of older references requires instructor permission) and reliable for the required topic.*
Uses in-text citation and full reference at end of posting when presenting another person’s thoughts as quotes or paraphrase of information.
Presentation of information is unsatisfactory in threeor more of the following elements
Provides evidence of scholarly inquiry relevant to required TD topic(s).
Presents specific information from scholarly sources to develop a comprehensive presentation of facts.
Uses at least one outside scholarly reference that is relevant, less than 5 years old (use of older references requires instructor permission) and reliable for the required topic.*
Uses in-text citation and full reference at end of posting when presenting another person’s thoughts as quotes or paraphrase of information
16 Points
14 Points
13 Points
11 Points
9 Points
0 Points
Application of Course Knowledge
Demonstrate the ability to analyze and apply principles, knowledge and information learned in the outside readings and relate them to real-life professional situations
Presentation of information was exceptional and included all of the following elements:
Applies principles, knowledge and information from scholarly resources to the required topic.
Applies facts, principles or concepts learned from scholarly resources to a professional experience.
Application of information is comprehensive and specific to the required topic.
Presentation of information was good, but was superficial in places and included all of the following elements:
Applies principles, knowledge and information from scholarly resources to the required topic.
Applies facts, principles or concepts learned from scholarly resources to a professional experience.
Application of information is comprehensive and specific to the required topic.
Presentation of information was minimally demonstrated in the all of the following elements:
Applies principles, knowledge and information from scholarly resources to the required topic.
Applies facts, principles or concepts learned from scholarly resources to a professional experience.
Application of information is comprehensive and specific to the required topic.
Presentation of information is unsatisfactory in one of the following elements:
Applies principles, knowledge and information from scholarly resources to the required topic.
Applies facts, principles or concepts learned from and scholarly resources to a professional experience.
Application of information is comprehensive and specific to the required topic.
Presentation of information is unsatisfactory in two of the following elements:
Applies principles, knowledge and information from scholarly resources to the required topic.
Applies facts, principles or concepts learned from scholarly resources to a professional experience.
Application of information is comprehensive and specific to the required topic.
Presentation of information is unsatisfactory in three of the following elements
Applies principles, knowledge and information and scholarly resources to the required topic.
Applies facts, principles or concepts learned scholarly resources to a professional experience.
Application of information is comprehensive and specific to the required topic.
10 Points
9 Points
6 Points
0 Points
Interactive Dialogue
Initial post should be a minimum of 300 words (references do not count toward word count)
The peer and instructor responses must be a minimum of 150 words each (references do not count toward word count)
Responses are substantive and relate to the topic.
Demonstrated all of the following:
Initial post must be a minimum of 300 words.
The peer and instructor responses must be a minimum of 150 words each.
Responses are substantive
Responses are related to the topic of discussion.
Demonstrated 3 of the following:
Initial post must be a minimum of 300 words.
The peer and instructor responses must be a minimum of 150 words each.
Responses are substantive
Responses are related to the topic of discussion.
Demonstrated 2 of the following:
Initial post must be a minimum of 300 words.
The peer and instructor responses must be a minimum of 150 words each.
Responses are substantive
Responses are related to the topic of discussion.
Demonstrated 1 or less of the following:
Initial post must be a minimum of 300 words.
The peer and instructor responses must be a minimum of 150 words each.
Responses are substantive
Responses are related to the topic of discussion.
8 Points
7 Points
6 Points
5 Points
4 Points
0 Points
Grammar, Syntax, APA
Points deducted for improper grammar, syntax and APA style of writing.
The source of information is the APA Manual 6th Edition
Error is defined to be a unique APA error. Same type of error is only counted as one error.
The following was present:
0-3 errors in APA format
AND
Responses have 0-3 grammatical, spelling or punctuation errors
AND
Writing style is generally clear, focused on topic,and facilitates communication.
The following was present:
4-6 errors in APA format.
AND/OR
Responses have 4-5 grammatical, spelling or punctuation errors
AND/OR
Writing style is somewhat focused on topic.
The following was present:
7-9 errors in APA format.
AND/OR
Responses have 6-7 grammatical, spelling or punctuation errors
AND/OR
Writing style is slightly focused on topic making discussion difficult to understand.
The following was present:
10- 12 errors in APA format
AND/OR
Responses have 8-9 grammatical, spelling and punctuation errors
AND/OR
Writing style is not focused on topic, making discussion difficult to understand.
The following was present:
13 – 15 errors in APA format
AND/OR
Responses have 8-10 grammatical, spelling or punctuation errors
AND/OR
Writing style is not focused on topic, making discussion difficult to understand.
AND/OR
The student continues to make repeated mistakes in any of the above areas after written correction by the instructor.
The following was present:
16 to greater errors in APA format.
AND/OR
Responses have more than 10 grammatical, spelling or punctuation errors.
AND/OR
Writing style does not facilitate communication
0 Points Deducted
5 Points Lost
Participation
Requirements
Demonstrated the following:
Initial, peer, and faculty postings were made on 3 separate days
Failed to demonstrate the following:
Initial, peer, and faculty postings were made on 3 separate days
0 Points Lost
5 Points Lost
Due Date Requirements
Demonstrated all of the following:
The initial posting to the graded threaded discussion topic is posted within the course no later than Wednesday, 11:59 pm MT.
A minimum of one peer and one instructor responses are to be posted within the course no later than Sunday, 11:59 pm MT.
Demonstrates oneor less of the following.
The initial posting to the graded threaded discussion topic is posted within the course no later than Wednesday, 11:59 pm MT.
A minimum of one peer and one instructor responses are to be posted within the course no later than Sunday, 11:59 pm MT.
