Quality Improvement Initiative Evaluation

CRITERIA

NON-PERFORMANCE

BASIC

PROFICIENT

DISTINGUISHED

Analyze a current quality improvement initiative in a health care setting.

Does not describe a current quality improvement initiative in a health care setting.

Describes a current quality improvement initiative in a health care setting, but fails to analyze the origins and results of the initiative.

Analyzes a current quality improvement initiative in a health care setting.

Analyzes a current quality improvement initiative in a health care setting, and identifies knowledge gaps, unknowns, missing information, unanswered questions, or areas of uncertainty (where further information could improve the analysis).

Evaluate the success of a current quality improvement initiative through recognized benchmarks and outcome measures.

Does not evaluate the success of a current quality improvement initiative through recognized benchmarks and outcome measures.

Attempts to evaluate the success of a quality improvement initiative, but fails to use recognized benchmarks and outcome measures.

Evaluates the success of a current quality improvement initiative through recognized benchmarks and outcome measures.

Evaluates the success of a current quality improvement initiative through recognized benchmarks and outcome measures, and identifies assumptions on which the analysis is based.

Incorporate interprofessional perspectives related to initiative functionality and outcomes.

Does not incorporate interprofessional perspectives related to initiative functionality and outcomes.

Attempts to incorporate interprofessional perspectives, but includes insufficient interprofessional feedback related to initiative functionality and outcomes.

Incorporates interprofessional perspectives related to initiative functionality and outcomes.

Incorporates interprofessional perspectives related to initiative functionality and outcomes, and identifies areas of uncertainty, knowledge gaps, and additional information that would be needed in order to gain a more complete understanding.

Recommend additional indicators and protocols to improve and expand quality outcomes of a quality initiative.

Does not recommend additional indicators and protocols to improve and expand outcomes of a quality initiative.

Attempts to recommend additional indicators and protocols, but fails to make a case for why recommendations could improve or expand quality outcomes.

Recommends additional indicators and protocols to improve and expand outcomes of a quality initiative.

Recommends additional indicators and protocols to improve and expand outcomes of a quality initiative, and impartially explains the pros and cons of these recommendations.

Communicate evaluation and analysis in a professional and effective manner, writing content clearly and logically with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and spelling.

Does not communicate evaluation and analysis in a professional and effective manner, writing content clearly and logically with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and spelling.

Attempts to communicate evaluation and analysis in a professional and effective manner, but content is not consistently clear and logical, or errors in use of grammar, punctuation, or spelling distract from the message.

Communicates evaluation and analysis in a professional and effective manner, writing content clearly and logically with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and spelling.

Communicates evaluation and analysis in a professional and effective manner. Content is clear, logical, and persuasive; grammar, punctuation, and spelling are without errors.

Integrate relevant sources to support arguments, correctly formatting citations and references using current APA style.

Does not integrate relevant sources to support arguments, correctly formatting citations and references using current APA style.

Sources lack relevance or are poorly integrated, or citations or references are incorrectly formatted.

Integrates relevant sources to support arguments, correctly formatting citations and references using current APA style.

Integrates relevant sources to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using current APA style. Citations are free from all errors.