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Personal Improvement Project Status Discussion

Personal Improvement Project Status Discussion

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At the start of a new year, gyms are flooded with people who have made a resolution to be healthier. By March, the flood has dwindled to a stream. Though people may have the best of intentions, sometimes their goals do not come to fruition. How are you monitoring progress toward your personal improvement goal?Personal Improvement Project Status Discussion

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A benefit of this course is that you have a place to test out tools, methods, and processes that may be beneficial to you as a nurse executive engaged in CQI. You can take a risk, you can experience challenges or even fail, and you can learn from those challenges, within the confines of the classroom. Your colleagues are doing the same.
For this Discussion, you will evaluate progress on your Personal Improvement Project, taking a hard look at the measures you have chosen to track and whether the data are aligning with your intended goal. You will also share insights, methods, and tools with your colleagues in order to support one another.
To Prepare: Personal Improvement Project Status Discussion
Reflect on the steps you have taken in your Personal Improvement Project.
Access and examine the data you have gathered.
Evaluate the tools available to you and how you plan to use them.
By Day 3 of Week 3
Post an assessment of your progress with your Personal Improvement Project.

Challenges and Successes: What have you found challenging about the Personal Improvement Project and what have you found easier than expected? How so?
Alignment of Measures: Consider whether the data you have collected thus far is giving you the data you need to meet your goal. Why or why not? If not, then adjust your approach accordingly.
Tools: What tools have you found useful or not useful? What diagrams are you planning to use? How are you going about developing your process map? Personal Improvement Project Status Discussion

Time is among the most precious things that everyone is given in equal measure regardless of age, gender, religion, political affiliations, and other attributes of humanity. However, different people utilize time differently, leading to varied outcomes such as success and failure for others. Time management is a timely topic in healthcare because healthcare outcomes are time-sensitive. My project is to use time management tools and other techniques to help in enhancing productivity. As a healthcare provider, I intend to practice time management so as meet a target of at least 15 patients per day Personal Improvement Project Status Discussion.

According to Zafarullah and Pertti (2017), effective time management helps professionals improve their job efficiency by allocating their time appropriately, increasing efficiency and productivity. In healthcare, I intend to record the total number of people I attend daily. With effective time management, I will achieve my target of at least 15 people daily. Recording the number of people I attend will help me identify my deficit and adhere to my schedule.

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I intend to measure how effective time management can help me be more productive by seeing more patients daily. One method of ensuring that I achieve my goals is recording and comparing. For my project, a Pareto chart remains essential t. I intend to adopt some changes to achieve my time management goals. Some of the necessary changes I must adhere to include avoiding multitasking, lateness and setting well-defined goals Personal Improvement Project Status Discussion.

After achieving my goals, I will emphasize the application of the tools that I have used and the experience I have gained to better my efforts and increase the number of patients I attend daily. The field of nursing requires the application of evidence in informing best practices (Camargo et al., 2018)Personal Improvement Project Status Discussion. Therefore, if I achieve my project successfully, I will then implement such projects in the future to inform other quality improvement projects.

One major challenge that I have experienced in my project is overcoming procrastination. Procrastination is one of the hindrances to time management, and I have struggled to overcome it. I have, however, found adhering to most schedules much easier than I had initially thought. Once I set a goal at a certain time, I have always tried to achieve the outcome more so for tasks with short deadlines. The data I have collected is sufficient to give me the required information to meet my goal. The data I was collecting is on the number of patients I have attended, and I feel it is essential in accomplishing my project. The tools that I found useful are Pareto charts because they are efficient in highlighting the ordered frequency counts for values on different levels on a given variable, such as the number of patients I attend per day Personal Improvement Project Status Discussion.

References

Alkiayat, M. (2021). A Practical Guide to Creating a Pareto Chart as a Quality Improvement Tool. Global Journal on Quality and Safety in Healthcare, 4(2), 83-84.

Camargo, F. C., Iwamoto, H. H., Galvão, C. M., Pereira, G. D. A., Andrade, R. B., & Masso, G. C. (2018). Competences and barriers for the evidence-based practice in nursing: an integrative review. Revista brasileira de enfermagem, 71, 2030-2038. Personal Improvement Project Status Discussion

Zafarullah, S., & Pertti, V. (2017). Effect of time management on the job satisfaction and motivation of teacher educators: A narrative analysis.

Personal Improvement Project Outline

Part 1: Aim

  • What is the topic of your project? The topic of my project is using time management tools and techniques to enhance productivity.
  • What is the aim(s) of your project? Make sure the aim is measurable (e.g., Improve in X way by X%)Personal Improvement Project Status Discussion. The aim of my project is to be able to see at least 15 patients per day through time management.

Part 2: Process Analysis

  • What is the process you are studying? I will be studying the efficacy of time management tools and techniques on productivity.
  • Who are the people involved? I am the only person involved in this study.
  • Where does the process start and end? This process begins with a daily record of the number of patients I attend to. The result will be that I have attended to at least 15 patients per day.

Part 3: Measurement

  • What are you measuring? I am measuring how effective improved time management would enable me to see more patients daily.
  • How are you collecting the data? I will be recording how many patients I attend to per day. To facilitate comparisons more easily, I will enter these figures into a Pareto chart. A Pareto chart is a tool that may assist in narrowing in on the issues that have the most potential for development (Harel et al. (2016)Personal Improvement Project Status Discussion. It displays the relative frequency or magnitude of the various issues in a descending bar graph, which illustrates the cumulative effect of the issues.

Part 4: Changes

 

  • What changes do you anticipate making based on what the data reveal? The changes that I anticipate making is avoiding lateness and multitasking and setting well-defined goals.

Part 5: Reflection and Application

  • How might you extend the project long-term? I believe that after I have achieved this goal, I will put what I’ve gained and the tools I’ve used to good use to keep increasing the amount of work I get done by better managing my time.
  • How might the experience of this personal project inform a quality project in nursing?

Van Aartsengel & Kurtoglu (2013) point out that when one has a deeper, more intimate grasp of the quality improvement process, the insights that are obtained are more easily retained. This results in a feeling of fulfillment, which is infectious. If I am successful in completing this approach in my personal life, then I will have the knowledge necessary to comprehend how to use the same ideas in my future professional life Personal Improvement Project Status Discussion.

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References

Harel, Z., Silver, S. A., McQuillan, R. F., Weizman, A. V., Thomas, A., Chertow, G. M., Nesrallah, G., Chan, C. T., & Bell, C. M. (2016). How to diagnose solutions to a quality of care problem. Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 11(5), 901-907. https://doi.org/10.2215/cjn.11481015

Leis, S. J., & Anderson, A. (2020). Time management strategies for new nurses. AJN, American Journal of Nursing, 120(12), 63-66. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.naj.0000724260.01363.a3

Van Aartsengel, A., & Kurtoglu, S. (2013). Handbook on Continuous Improvement Transformation. Springer Books. Personal Improvement Project Status Discussion