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Project: Promoting Health Care
This week you continue working on Section 3 of your Course Project, which was introduced in Week 6. Through your work in previous weeks of this course, you have likely gained critical insights into the organization that serves as the focus for your quality improvement plan. Integrating this knowledge of the organization into your plan for addressing a quality improvement issue is essential for successfully facilitating change.
As you deepen your analysis of your selected organization, consider how the information presented in this week’s Learning Resources relates to strategic priorities as well as to the uniquely collaborative and competitive dynamic that binds organizations in health care.
To prepare:
To complete:
Write a 3- to 5-page paper that includes:
Be sure to cite evidence from the literature to justify your selection of the measures and indicators, as well as the performance targets. This section of the Course Project serves as the Portfolio Assignment for this course.
Due by Day 7 of Week 8.
Through your work on Section 3 of the Course Project, you have examined the gap between current performance and evidence-based targets and considered how addressing this gap relates to organizational priorities and large-scale aims for quality improvement.
In this section of the Course Project, you begin to think about quality improvement strategies that could help to bridge this gap. As noted in the Sadeghi, Barzi, Mikhail, and Shabot text, this is referred to as performance-driven planning.
Since the publication of the Institute of Medicine’s report “Crossing the Quality Chasm,” a good deal of attention has been paid to the need to examine processes that contribute to outcomes (Ernst, Wooldridge, Conway, Dressman, Weiland, Tucker, and Seid). As the USAID has noted, interventions “will not create the desired outcome to improve the quality of care unless the overall process of care delivery is also improved.” Therefore, attention to process redesign is a central aspect of cultivating strategies for improvement.
To prepare:
Additional instructions for Section 4 are presented next week. To complete this Assignment, you will create a process map and write a paper describing quality improvement strategies. This Assignment is due by Day 7 of Week 8.
PART 2 OF THIS ASSIGNMENT:
Respond to at least two of your colleagues on two different days using one or more of the following approaches:
Submission and Grading Information
Grading CriteriaTo access your rubric:
Week 8 Discussion RubricPost by Day 3 and Respond by Day 6
To participate in this Discussion:
Week 8 DiscussionProject 1: Promoting Health Care Quality
Section 3: Quality Measurement and Assessment
By Day 7Review the complete Assignment description presented in Weeks 6 and 7. Submit Section 3.
Submission and Grading Information
To submit your completed Project for review and grading, do the following:
Please save your Project using the naming convention “WK8Proj1+last name+first initial.(extension)” as the name.
Click the Week 8 Project Rubric to review the Grading Criteria for the Project.
Click the Week 8 Project link. You will also be able to “View Rubric” for grading criteria from this area.
Next, from the Attach File area, click on the Browse My Computer button. Find the document you saved as “WK8Proj+last name+first initial.(extension)” and click Open.
If applicable: From the Plagiarism Tools area, click the checkbox for I agree to submit my paper(s) to the Global Reference Database.
Click on the Submit button to complete your submission.
Grading CriteriaTo access your rubric:
Week 8 Project 1 RubricCheck Your Project Draft for Authenticity
To check your Assignment draft for authenticity:
Submit your Week 8 Project 1 draft and review the originality report.Submit Your Project by Day 7
To submit your Project:
Week 8 Project 1Project 2: Promoting Health Care Quality
Section 4: Quality Improvement StrategiesThroughout this course you have been considering the relationship between structure, process, and outcomes as it relates to health care quality. Looking at outcomes, alone, may not tell the “whole story.” For instance, if you are concerned with improving fall rates, evaluating the process—related activities or practices—can help you identify factors that contribute to outcomes and develop strategies for improving them.
For this section of your Course Project, you create a process map to examine a current process related to your quality improvement issue. You will use the results of the process mapping to redesign a process to help minimize or close the performance gap(s). As you proceed, keep in mind the importance of maintaining a patient-centered focus so the patient experience is not negatively affected by any changes in process.
To prepare:
Review the instructions provided in the Learning Resources for creating a process map.
With your quality improvement issue in mind, as well as the other work you have completed on your Course Project thus far, think about how creating a process map could help you to better understand your quality improvement issue and redesign an associated process.
Create a process map using Microsoft Word or PowerPoint.
Refine the strategies for promoting systems-level change to minimize or close the performance gap(s) that you began to think about in Week 7. As part of this, identify a way to redesign at least one process based on your analysis of the process map that you have created.To complete:
Write a 2- to 3-page paper in which you describe quality improvement strategies that you selected related to your quality improvement issue.
Finalize your process map, which will be submitted along with the paper.
By Day 7Submit your paper and process map.
Submission and Grading Information
To submit your completed Project for review and grading, do the following:
Please save your Project using the naming convention “WK8Proj2+last name+first initial.(extension)” as the name.
Click the Week 8 Project Rubric to review the Grading Criteria for the Project.
Click the Week 8 Project link. You will also be able to “View Rubric” for grading criteria from this area.
Next, from the Attach File area, click on the Browse My Computer button. Find the document you saved as “WK8Proj+last name+first initial.(extension)” and click Open.
If applicable: From the Plagiarism Tools area, click the checkbox for I agree to submit my paper(s) to the Global Reference Database.
Click on the Submit button to complete your submission.
Grading CriteriaTo access your rubric:
Week 8 Project 2 Rubric