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Running Head: QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROJECT 3

QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROJECT

Part 3

June 20, 2021

Quality Improvement Project

Action Plan

Outline

-Defining the scope of the recruitment work plan, nursing residency enhancement, and career development projects.

-Allocation of responsibilities to stakeholders of the project departments.

-Estimate and create workable timelines and activities for each team.

-Note down the budget for the project.

The project involves an action plan to ensure quality improvement in the nursing profession. It is based on the fact that there is a significant shortage of nursing practitioners, which directly affects their quality of service. The action plan itself involves defining the nature of the recruitment work plan, which will be in connection to the newly graduated nurses with no experience and using their feedback on the job to determine if they will retain them. The work plan will involve questionnaire interviews, group sessions, and one-on-one interviews about the state of the job as the nurse continues.

The action plan will also include research on the state of nursing residency facilities at different medical institutions and later crafting proposals to the medical center and the government department involved in their nursing residency facilities with recommendations. The last part of the action plan consists of analyzing the extent of the career development programs implemented for nurses.

The second part of the plan is understanding the exact stakeholders of the project, in this case being the medical institutions, health care stakeholders, human resource personnel, and the relevant government departments. The idea, in this case, is to identify systems that will ensure long-term quality improvement in the service delivery of nurses, and this involves understanding stakeholders that can confirm this fact.

The timeline for the first item in the workplan plan is creating the project's scope, a process that should take a week at most. The duration for the strategic recruitment process nursing should be conducted for at least six months with a review in the middle of this period by the research team. The process of research on the state of nursing residency facilities in medical institutions should run concurrently with the strategic recruitment program but should conduct reviews after every visit and draft a report. The drafting of the relevant reports in the project

should be done within the first two weeks after the six months and should be sent out to the relevant stakeholders. A review meeting after a week should be conducted for the drafting of recommendations.

The budget will be broken down as follows:

- Creation of the strategic nursing recruitment process and training $4500

- Evaluation and monitoring -$2000

- Creation of career development program and training $4000

Based on the above action plan, the nursing teams will be able to complement the doctors in each medical institution better (Brook, et al., 2019). The idea of improving the quality of personnel in the nursing field will also reduce the number of casualties in their hospitals (Glasper, 2020). It is important to note that when a nurse is qualified, they are more relaxed under pressure and can therefore know what to do faster and react more efficiently, which is crucial in saving a patient's life.

References

Brook, J., Aitken, L., Webb, R., MacLaren, J., & Salmon, D. (2019). Characteristics of successful interventions to reduce turnover and increase retention of early-career nurses: A systematic review. International Journal Of Nursing Studies, 91, 47-59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2018.11.003

Glasper, A. (2020). Strategies to enhance nursing recruitment. British Journal Of Healthcare Assistants, 14(2), 70-73. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjha.2020.14.2.70