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For an organization to successfully implement QIsuccessfully implement QI, it needs to identify organizational challenges and provide solutions. At my workplace, planning is critical prior to the implementation of QI. The organization recognizes the QI rationale, creates an intervention for adjustment, state success metrics, and set the plan into action (Morelli, 2016). After planning, measures for monitoring progress are selected, changes are developed, the strategy is tested, and barriers are identified and dealt with. The organization then monitors the strategy by evaluating progress and finally spreading the outcome.

After seeing the changes that have occurred within the organization after implementing quality improvement, I can know that the organization has been using it. An organization reducing healthcare costs to decrease medication-related unpleasant events shows quality improvement is being used (Dixon-Woods & Martin, 2016). Additionally, just by seeing patients are satisfied with the services an organization offers because of improved outcomes such as early disease diagnosis and reduced length of hospital stay is enough evidence that an organization uses quality improvement.

Quality improvement is used together with research and evidence-based practice because before implementing quality improvement, research is required to identify the problems an organization is facing (Balakas & Smith, 2016). Conversely, to improve patient outcomes through quality improvement, evidence-based practice plays a significant role in integrating the best existing research evidence with patient values and clinical expertise to improve the patients' outcomes. Research and evidence-based practices provide an essential starting point for comprehending practical approaches for implementing quality improvement.

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Balakas, K., & Smith, J. R. (2016). Evidence-based practice and quality improvement in nursing

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Dixon-Woods, M., & Martin, G. P. (2016). Does quality improvement improve quality?. Future

Hospital Journal, 3(3), 191-4. http://sites.bu.edu/ciis/files/2016/10/Dixon-Woods.pdf

Morelli, M. S. (2016). Using the plan, do, study, act model for implementing a quality

Improvement program in your practice. American Journal of Gastroenterology, 111(9), 1220-1222. doi: 10.1038/ajg.2016.321