quality improvement

Part 1: Write a 2–3 page evaluation of the quality improvement program that you have created. This should be the annual summary of the hypothetical data. Make sure your hypothetical data are credible.

Part 2: As you may recall from Week 1, your Course Project was to prepare a total quality improvement program, with a focus on one high-risk area. Continuous quality improvement covers many areas. TThis assignment has two parts.

Part 1: Write a 2–3 page evaluation of the quality improvement program that you have created. This should be the annual summary of the hypothetical data. Make sure your hypothetical data are credible.

Part 2: As you may recall from Week 1, your Course Project was to prepare a total quality improvement program, with a focus on one high-risk area. Continuous quality improvement covers many areas. Throughout the course, you have learned about the attributes that constitute a quality improvement team and what questions this team attempts to answer. The assignments toward this project that you completed each week can now be assembled into a single instructional document.

Make necessary adjustments to your document so that each segment flows smoothly into the next. Evaluate your project using the criteria given below.

1. Are the indicators and their measurements appropriate to the high-risk area? Do the indicators capture the risk?

1. Are the fictional incidents realistic and plausible?

1. Is the filled chart consistent with the fictional incident?

1. Is the plan of correction feasible? Will it prevent the occurrence of the incident in future?

1. How do you know the plan worked? What measures will you use to identify effectiveness?

hroughout the course, you have learned about the attributes that constitute a quality improvement team and what questions this team attempts to answer. The assignments toward this project that you completed each week can now be assembled into a single instructional document.

Make necessary adjustments to your document so that each segment flows smoothly into the next. Evaluate your project using the criteria given below.

1. Are the indicators and their measurements appropriate to the high-risk area? Do the indicators capture the risk?

1. Are the fictional incidents realistic and plausible?

1. Is the filled chart consistent with the fictional incident?

1. Is the plan of correction feasible? Will it prevent the occurrence of the incident in future?

1. How do you know the plan worked? What measures will you use to identify effectivenQuality improvement is considered to be a method for making sure that all the activities necessary to develop, design and also implement a particular product or the service is efficient and effective with respect to the Medicare facility and its performance (DIXON‐WOODS, 2011). The aspect of continuous quality improvement is considered to be the process-based and data-driven technique that is used for to improving the quality of a particular product or the service. Quality improvement usually operates with the certainty that there is always room for improving processes, operations, and all the activities so as to increase the quality.

The quality improvement team should usually have clearly identified champions who are committed to the process of continuous improvement (Goetsch, 2014). This particular individual should be interested in building capacity in the practice for ongoing implementation and improvement of the efficient processes that will embrace growth because such methods may include seeking out best practices, gathering and reflecting on data and also engaging voices and perspectives of individuals involved in all aspects of the activities under scrutiny. The role of the quality improvement team is to ensure that the team functions effectively and fulfills its charter for the organization.

· Clinical leadership is an individual who has the authority to test and implement change and to problem solve issues that arise in this process (Tricco, 2012).

· Technical expertise is an individual who has strong skills and knowledge of the quality improvement process. A quality improvement team may need several forms of technical expertise, including technical expertise in quality improvement processes, health information technology systems required to support the proposed change, and specifics of the area of care affected.

· Project sponsorship is an individual has executive authority and serves as the link to the quality improvement team and the organization’s senior management. Although this person does not participate on a daily basis with the team, he or she may join periodically and stays apprised of its progress (Ryan, 2011).

The quality improvement team acknowledges the commitment of long-term care leaders so as to improve the quality, identify the diverse challenges and also provides further suggestions and the guidance on how to achieve future success (Goetsch, 2014). The long-term care is considered to be a high-risk area in the medical facilities because of the aspect that long-term care involves a variety of services that are designed so as to meet a particular person's health or the personal care needs during a short or long period of time. These services assist people to live as independently and safely as possible when they can no longer perform everyday activities on their own. This aspect imposes diverse risks to the hospital because of the possibility of finance losses as a result of long-term care towards the patients.

Medical facilities involvement with the long-term care usually has a diverse risk of losing some finances through a provision of salaries to medical staff and the amount of food consumed during the stay. A large number of patients who stays in the hospital usually have significant expenses to the Medicare facilities that will have to spend more so as to accommodate them (Goetsch, 2014). Financial risks have a greater risk to the patients because the more time spent in Medicare will increase the possibility of paying more for the services offered. Conversely, this type of risk affects the medical care professionals in that, most of their time will be spent in the healthcare facility and may lead to job redundancy.

Long-term care of patients will result in poor services risks as a large number of patients in the Medicare facility usually impose this type of risks. Overcrowding in the hospital leads to poor quality services production since the health care professionals will have a lot of work to do in trying to attend to all the patients at one time (Tricco, 2012). Reduced or inadequate services are a risk to the Medicare facility as it may lead to loose of credibility and public confidence.

Long-term care of diverse patients in the Medicare facility may lead to medication error risks because of the large period of time stayed in the hospital. In medication error risks, it takes small mistake for someone to miss a decimal point and you could have a life-threatening mistake. Medication error risks will ruin the Medicare reputation and hence fewer clients. This type of risk affects the health of the patient because a small mistake in medicine prescription may lead to death (Kamdar, 2013).

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