The Quality Improvement Initiative Discussion

The Quality Improvement Initiative Discussion

Assessment Description
Throughout the RN-to-BSN program, students are required to participate in scholarly activities outside of clinical practice or professional practice. Examples of scholarly activities include attending conferences, seminars, journal club, grand rounds, morbidity and mortality meetings, interdisciplinary committees, quality improvement committees, and any other opportunities available at your site, within your community, or nationally The Quality Improvement Initiative Discussion.

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You are required to post at least one documented scholarly activity by the end of this course. In addition to this submission, you are required to be involved and contribute to interdisciplinary initiatives on a regular basis The Quality Improvement Initiative Discussion.

Submit, by way of this assignment, a summary report of the scholarly activity, including who, what, where, when, and any relevant take-home points. Include the appropriate program competencies associated with the scholarly activity as well as future professional goals related to this activity. You may use the “Scholarly Activity Summary” resource to help guide this assignment.

While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and in-text citations and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

APA style is not required, but solid academic writing is expected.

Front-line clinicians in many healthcare systems benefit from quality improvement projects. The participants gain opportunities to get involved in leading and delivering change to improve patient care and transform the complexity in a healthcare setting (Backhouse & Ogunlayi, 2020)The Quality Improvement Initiative Discussion. Therefore, during my learning program, I decided to join and become a member of the quality improvement committee for an initiative to improve electronic health documentation in my community health center.

The current quality improvement initiative that the committee is piloting involves improving electronic medical record documentation. Through the nurse’s help, the committee established that there was a recent malicious attempt to access patient information. A breach of patient information risk the patient’s health and the overall reputation of the facility. The nurse informaticists recommended using encryption and decryption codes to safeguard patient information (Kruse et al., 2017). The quality improvement initiative involves integrating safety precautions into the systems to ensure the privacy and confidentiality of patient information. The members involved in the initiative are the nurse leaders, nurse informaticists, and some nurse representatives. Therefore, by participating in this activity, I will gain skills in using EHRs that help reduces medication errors, ensure information privacy and improve outcomes The Quality Improvement Initiative Discussion.

My involvement in this initiative provides me with an opportunity to gain the skills and knowledge required to use EHRs effectively. Additionally, I will learn how to decode data to make meaningful use that can be used in treatment approaches for patients. In addition, to become a good nurse, I must understand patient medical information on record to provide quality care. The scholarly activity addresses technical competencies vital for every nurse in practice.

References

Backhouse, A., & Ogunlayi, F. (2020). Quality improvement into practice. BMJ, m865. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m865

Kruse, C., Smith, B., Vanderlinden, H., & Nealand, A. (2017). Security Techniques for the Electronic Health Records. Journal Of Medical Systems, 41(8). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-017-0778-4

Scholarly Activities

This document describes the scholarly activity elements that should be included in a five paragraph summary. You may use this resource to help guide the preparation of the Scholarly Activities assignment, due in Topic 10.

Overview

This section consists of a single paragraph that succinctly describes the scholarly activity that you attended/participated in, the target market for the activity, and the benefit of the activity to you The Quality Improvement Initiative Discussion.

Problem

This section consists of either a short narrative or a list of bullet points that concisely identifies the problems the scholarly activity is designed to solve. Educate: What is the current state of the activity topic? Explain why this is a problem, and for whom is it a problem? Inspire: What could a nurse achieve by participating in the scholarly activity? Use declarative sentences with simple words to communicate each point. Less is more.

Solution

This section consists of either a short paragraph or a list of bullet points that concisely describes the solution to a proposed practice problem that the scholarly activity addressed and how it addresses the problem outlined in the previous section The Quality Improvement Initiative Discussion.

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Opportunity

This section consists of short paragraphs that define the opportunity that the scholarly activity is designed to capture. It is important to cover the objectives and goals that were met. How will attending/participating in this scholarly activity help you grow as a nurse?

Program Competencies Addressed

This section consists of a list of program competencies that were addressed in this scholarly activity. Please use the list from the ISP The Quality Improvement Initiative Discussion