Short Paper: Plan-Do-Study-Act Cycle for Quality Improvement

Thinking about the goals and timeline you developed in Module Six (module six attached)and considering major challenges in healthcare and how they can be improved, identify a patient safety or a patient quality issue (such as falls, infections, interdepartmental communications, etc.) and use the Plan-Do-Study/Check-Act (PDSA/CA) tool to describe the steps you would take for the issue you identified. Write your PDSA/CA cycle in narrative format using the Module Seven Short Paper Template. (Template attached)

Guidelines for Submission: Your short paper should be a submitted as a 3- to 4-page Microsoft Word document (in addition to title and reference pages) with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, and sources cited in APA format.