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QI Plan Part One
Davis Healthcare Improvement
Davis Healthcare is a dedicated team of professionals to providing efficient services and patient care delivering. However, each healthcare service requires improvements in one or more sectors to improve the quality of services rendered to the patients. Therefore, focusing on each aspect of development within the healthcare service, Davis Healthcare must make amendments and specific improvements to particular sections of its organization.
Among the required sectors of development include productivity management. This section entails activities that ensure service delivery to various patients and proper coordination with staff to coordinate patient care. Different data collection tools and analyses techniques and instruments must be used to have the appropriate data required for analysis in this section, (Panesar, Carson-Stevens, Salvilla, & Sheikh, 2014). Nice, but what is the topic you will be talking about – HAC, HAI, handwashing, pt identification, med errors? etc
Data Collection
Data collection is aimed at obtaining appropriate data and information required to ensure that correct information is managed within the organization's settings for proper analysis and fact evaluation. The kind of data needed to monitor improvements include data on specific statistics regarding delivery of services, feedback from patients, recovery rates, as well as patient care response.
Some of the tools that can be used in data collection include surveys, questionnaires, and interviews. These collection devices are used in gathering data from the field and various respondents appropriately before indulging in analysis and improvement process of the healthcare delivery sector (Blischke, Karim, & Murthy, 2011).
Surveys are short questions issued to various persons with specific answer sets and defined sets of questions. These studies are aimed at targeted forms of responses within the community and organization. The surveys are given out to respondents across the field area, to achieve issue objectively where the respondents can respond to the questions categorically.
· Surveys are easily formed as they are simple problems and can be sent through emails or other forums to the various respondents across the field of study.
· Informational content on the improvement of productivity management is categorized into obvious questions that can easily be understood by the different respondents within the responses.
· The response fields have areas that can be expounded upon to give more detailed information about a particular service or area of study. According to surveys, information available on specific areas of study and the challenges that each department undertakes in productivity management can be recorded in the survey answers.
· Some of the cons of using surveys include problems in understanding questions asked to the various departments. Moreover, categorizing each study ...
QI Plan Part One21Davis Health Care is dedic.docxmakdul
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Davis Health Care is dedicated to providing an excellent patient care experience. A recent survey indicated that they could improve their quality of service. Imagine you are charged with identifying an area of improvement for this organization.
Select one area of improvement from the following list to complete Part 1 and Part 2 of this assignment:
· Patient safety
· Staff development and team improvement
· Productivity management
· Patient education
· Another area of improvement - Needs faculty approval
You will focus on this area of improvement throughout the remainder of the course, which will lead to a quality improvement plan in the final week.
Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper in which you address the following prompts for the area of improvement that you selected from above:
Part 1: Data Collection Tools
· Explain data needed to monitor improvements.
· Explain at least three data collection tools you can use to collect performance information.
· Explain the types of information each tool collects.
· Explain the strengths and weaknesses of each data collection tool.
· Explain how the data collection tools are similar. Explain how the data collection tools are different.
Part 2: Data Display, Measurement and Reporting
· Identify at least two tools that measure and display the QI data that can be gathered with the data collection tools identified in Part 1.
· Explain the types of information each tool measures, displays, and reports.
· Explain each measurement, display, and reporting tool's strengths and weaknesses.
· Explain how the measurement, display, and reporting tools are similar and different from each other.
· Explain how the measurement, display and reporting tools are useful for health care organizations.
Cite at least 3 sources according to APA guidelines to support your information.
Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.
QI Plan Part One
Davis Healthcare Improvement
Davis Healthcare is a dedicated team of professionals to providing efficient services and patient care delivering. However, each healthcare service requires improvements in one or more sectors to improve the quality of services rendered to the patients. Therefore, focusing on each aspect of development within the healthcare service, Davis Healthcare must make amendments and specific improvements to particular sections of its organization.
Among the required sectors of development include productivity management. This section entails activities that ensure service delivery to various patients and proper coordination with staff to coordinate patient care. Different data collection tools and analyses techniques and instruments must be used to have the appropriate data required for analysis in this section, (Panesar, Carson-Stevens, Salvilla, & Sheikh, 2014). Nice, but what is the topic you will be talking about – HAC, HAI, handwashing, pt identification, med errors? etc
Data Collection
Data col ...
The way healthcare services are now planned, monitored and evaluated has considerably changed in the last decade. Many healthcare organizations have now moved from Activity-Based M&E(ie, what are we really doing?) to Performance-Based M&E which focuses on the overall results (ie what have we achieved?).
Therefore the focus now is on the Results and consequences of actions and implementations, rather than on the inputs (treatment, time, human resources) provided.
In Secondary Healthcare Management for instance, this is called Results-Based Management (RBM) and Performance-Based M&E play a vital role in Results-Based Management.
This document outlines the objectives and structure of a training on Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) skills and expertise for researchers. The training aims to build M&E capacity among researchers to strengthen development evaluation. It will cover M&E framework and tool development, as well as program and project evaluation. The training is expected to equip researchers with M&E skills and expertise to become M&E specialists or professional research consultants.
RTI International used a technique called meta-evaluation to analyze data from 108 health care innovation projects funded by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. Meta-evaluation combines qualitative and quantitative data using methods inspired by meta-analysis. It systematically collects data on each project's characteristics and outcomes to identify which types of innovations were most effective and understand why some projects had more success than others. RTI developed an interactive online dashboard to help policymakers visualize the data and explore relationships between different project features and their impact on outcomes like costs and hospital admissions. The goal is to inform decisions about scaling up or modifying health care delivery and payment models.
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Dissertation of Service Quality Improvement 2
DISSERTATION OF SERVICE QUALITY IMPROVEMENT
Lusciano Foster
Ashford University
Business Research Methods & Tools (NAG1428A)
BUS642
Loay Alnaji
July 20, 2014
Dissertation of Service Quality Improvement
A research proposal for a possible dissertation entails keen consideration of peer-reviewed articles to establish the possibilities given regarding the topic. Problems, purpose and, hypothesis of the research are to be established to guide during the research. Planning dissertation research for a business follows a format that gives prospectus clients or supporters a vivid view of the reasons and importance of the research.
Service quality improvement has been a critical issue to most business setting, rendering them to provide poor services. They focus on spending a lot of money on ill- conceived services in addition, undermining the best methods to offer their customers with quality services. In such cases, customers feel unsatisfied and not treated in a manner they would like to be handled. Excellent service is an important approach because customer’s loyalty and satisfaction is improved. Every business should focus on how to improve their services in order to retain their customers and gain more customers.
Customers view value as the profit acquired from the trouble encountered such as unfriendly employees, high prices, services that are not attractive and locations that are not convenient to them. With excellent services, profit maximization of the company is improved and customer’s burdens on non-price issues are minimized. Most business organizations suffer low profit because their services do not meet customers’ expectations. Prior researches have concentrated on how services can be measured and nature of customer’s expectations without considering the service quality improvement factor, in order to improve their profits (Loshin, 2011).
This research will help to identify means of improving service in business organizations. Quality need to be described by the customer, whereby it should conform to his or her specification. Most company’s view quality as conformance to organization specifications and this research will help to solve this problem by identifying the best methods of delivering quality service. This research will help to address the questions on how to respond to customers and taking care of them (Hernon, 2011).
Ethics has become a keystone for carrying out successful and significant research. Due to this, the ethical conduct of individual researchers is under unprecedented analysis (Best & Kahn, 2006; Field & Behrman, 2004; Trimble& Fisher, 2006). Some of the ethical concerns likely to be experienced when conducting research are ex.
The document discusses various methods for assessing customer service quality and gathering customer satisfaction information. It describes informal surveys, comment cards, discussions with customers, and other sources that can provide customer intelligence. It then examines specific techniques in more depth, including general satisfaction surveys, planning targeted surveys, the SERVQUAL approach, using customer panels, and conducting service-specific or exit surveys of recent customers. For each method it provides details on how to design and implement the surveys effectively to gather useful feedback that can be used to improve customer service.
The document discusses various methods for collecting and analyzing data to inform quality improvement projects. It describes process mapping to analyze current processes, brainstorming to generate ideas, surveys to understand stakeholder perspectives, audits to measure performance against standards, and cause and effect diagrams to identify root causes of problems. The goal of using these techniques is to thoroughly diagnose issues to identify opportunities for improving processes and outcomes.
QI Plan Part One21Davis Health Care is dedic.docxmakdul
QI Plan Part One
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Davis Health Care is dedicated to providing an excellent patient care experience. A recent survey indicated that they could improve their quality of service. Imagine you are charged with identifying an area of improvement for this organization.
Select one area of improvement from the following list to complete Part 1 and Part 2 of this assignment:
· Patient safety
· Staff development and team improvement
· Productivity management
· Patient education
· Another area of improvement - Needs faculty approval
You will focus on this area of improvement throughout the remainder of the course, which will lead to a quality improvement plan in the final week.
Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper in which you address the following prompts for the area of improvement that you selected from above:
Part 1: Data Collection Tools
· Explain data needed to monitor improvements.
· Explain at least three data collection tools you can use to collect performance information.
· Explain the types of information each tool collects.
· Explain the strengths and weaknesses of each data collection tool.
· Explain how the data collection tools are similar. Explain how the data collection tools are different.
Part 2: Data Display, Measurement and Reporting
· Identify at least two tools that measure and display the QI data that can be gathered with the data collection tools identified in Part 1.
· Explain the types of information each tool measures, displays, and reports.
· Explain each measurement, display, and reporting tool's strengths and weaknesses.
· Explain how the measurement, display, and reporting tools are similar and different from each other.
· Explain how the measurement, display and reporting tools are useful for health care organizations.
Cite at least 3 sources according to APA guidelines to support your information.
Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.
QI Plan Part One
Davis Healthcare Improvement
Davis Healthcare is a dedicated team of professionals to providing efficient services and patient care delivering. However, each healthcare service requires improvements in one or more sectors to improve the quality of services rendered to the patients. Therefore, focusing on each aspect of development within the healthcare service, Davis Healthcare must make amendments and specific improvements to particular sections of its organization.
Among the required sectors of development include productivity management. This section entails activities that ensure service delivery to various patients and proper coordination with staff to coordinate patient care. Different data collection tools and analyses techniques and instruments must be used to have the appropriate data required for analysis in this section, (Panesar, Carson-Stevens, Salvilla, & Sheikh, 2014). Nice, but what is the topic you will be talking about – HAC, HAI, handwashing, pt identification, med errors? etc
Data Collection
Data col ...
The way healthcare services are now planned, monitored and evaluated has considerably changed in the last decade. Many healthcare organizations have now moved from Activity-Based M&E(ie, what are we really doing?) to Performance-Based M&E which focuses on the overall results (ie what have we achieved?).
Therefore the focus now is on the Results and consequences of actions and implementations, rather than on the inputs (treatment, time, human resources) provided.
In Secondary Healthcare Management for instance, this is called Results-Based Management (RBM) and Performance-Based M&E play a vital role in Results-Based Management.
This document outlines the objectives and structure of a training on Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) skills and expertise for researchers. The training aims to build M&E capacity among researchers to strengthen development evaluation. It will cover M&E framework and tool development, as well as program and project evaluation. The training is expected to equip researchers with M&E skills and expertise to become M&E specialists or professional research consultants.
RTI International used a technique called meta-evaluation to analyze data from 108 health care innovation projects funded by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. Meta-evaluation combines qualitative and quantitative data using methods inspired by meta-analysis. It systematically collects data on each project's characteristics and outcomes to identify which types of innovations were most effective and understand why some projects had more success than others. RTI developed an interactive online dashboard to help policymakers visualize the data and explore relationships between different project features and their impact on outcomes like costs and hospital admissions. The goal is to inform decisions about scaling up or modifying health care delivery and payment models.
Running Head Dissertation of Service Quality Improvement .docxcharisellington63520
Running Head: Dissertation of Service Quality Improvement 1
Dissertation of Service Quality Improvement 2
DISSERTATION OF SERVICE QUALITY IMPROVEMENT
Lusciano Foster
Ashford University
Business Research Methods & Tools (NAG1428A)
BUS642
Loay Alnaji
July 20, 2014
Dissertation of Service Quality Improvement
A research proposal for a possible dissertation entails keen consideration of peer-reviewed articles to establish the possibilities given regarding the topic. Problems, purpose and, hypothesis of the research are to be established to guide during the research. Planning dissertation research for a business follows a format that gives prospectus clients or supporters a vivid view of the reasons and importance of the research.
Service quality improvement has been a critical issue to most business setting, rendering them to provide poor services. They focus on spending a lot of money on ill- conceived services in addition, undermining the best methods to offer their customers with quality services. In such cases, customers feel unsatisfied and not treated in a manner they would like to be handled. Excellent service is an important approach because customer’s loyalty and satisfaction is improved. Every business should focus on how to improve their services in order to retain their customers and gain more customers.
Customers view value as the profit acquired from the trouble encountered such as unfriendly employees, high prices, services that are not attractive and locations that are not convenient to them. With excellent services, profit maximization of the company is improved and customer’s burdens on non-price issues are minimized. Most business organizations suffer low profit because their services do not meet customers’ expectations. Prior researches have concentrated on how services can be measured and nature of customer’s expectations without considering the service quality improvement factor, in order to improve their profits (Loshin, 2011).
This research will help to identify means of improving service in business organizations. Quality need to be described by the customer, whereby it should conform to his or her specification. Most company’s view quality as conformance to organization specifications and this research will help to solve this problem by identifying the best methods of delivering quality service. This research will help to address the questions on how to respond to customers and taking care of them (Hernon, 2011).
Ethics has become a keystone for carrying out successful and significant research. Due to this, the ethical conduct of individual researchers is under unprecedented analysis (Best & Kahn, 2006; Field & Behrman, 2004; Trimble& Fisher, 2006). Some of the ethical concerns likely to be experienced when conducting research are ex.
The document discusses various methods for assessing customer service quality and gathering customer satisfaction information. It describes informal surveys, comment cards, discussions with customers, and other sources that can provide customer intelligence. It then examines specific techniques in more depth, including general satisfaction surveys, planning targeted surveys, the SERVQUAL approach, using customer panels, and conducting service-specific or exit surveys of recent customers. For each method it provides details on how to design and implement the surveys effectively to gather useful feedback that can be used to improve customer service.
The document discusses various methods for collecting and analyzing data to inform quality improvement projects. It describes process mapping to analyze current processes, brainstorming to generate ideas, surveys to understand stakeholder perspectives, audits to measure performance against standards, and cause and effect diagrams to identify root causes of problems. The goal of using these techniques is to thoroughly diagnose issues to identify opportunities for improving processes and outcomes.
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Prepare an 8–10-page data analysis and quality improvement initiative proposal based on a health issue of professional interest to you. The audience for your analysis and proposal is the nursing staff and the interprofessional team who will implement the initiative.
"A basic principle of quality measurement is: If you can't measure it, you can't improve it" (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2013).
Health care providers are on an endless quest to improve both care quality and patient safety. This unwavering commitment requires hospitals and care givers to increase their attention and adherence to treatment protocols to improve patient outcomes. Health informatics, along with new and improved technologies and procedures, are at the core of virtually all quality improvement initiatives. The data gathered by providers, along with process improvement models and recognized quality benchmarks, are all part of a collaborative, continuing effort. As such, it is essential that professional nurses are able to correctly interpret, and effectively communicate information revealed on dashboards that display critical care metrics.
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As you prepare to complete this assessment, you may want to think about other related issues to deepen your understanding or broaden your viewpoint. You are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of your professional community. Note that these questions are for your own development and exploration and do not need to be completed or submitted as part of your assessment.
Reflect on QI initiatives focused on measuring and improving patient outcomes with which you are familiar.
How important is the role of nurses in QI initiatives?
What quality improvement initiatives have made the biggest difference? Why?
When a QI initiative does not succeed as planned, what steps are taken to improve or revise the effort?
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In this assessment, you will propose a quality improvement (QI) initiative proposal based on a health issue of professional interest to you. The QI initiative proposal will be based on an analysis of dashboard metrics from a health care facility. You have one of two options:
Option 1
If you
have access
to dashboard metrics related to a QI initiative proposal of interest to you:
Analyze data from the health care facility to identify.
The document provides instructions for completing an assessment of a community's health care needs. Students are asked to:
1) Conduct a virtual windshield survey and environmental analysis of a community served by the Vila Health system to understand health conditions and social determinants of health.
2) Summarize the results of the assessment in a 2-3 page executive summary addressing the community's needs, environmental health factors, and social determinants of health.
3) Support conclusions with 3-5 credible sources and write the summary clearly and concisely using APA style. The work will demonstrate competencies in identifying health care challenges and communicating assessment findings to leaders.
Data collection and reporting of key performance indicatorskiran
This document provides guidance on measuring key performance indicators (KPIs) through clinical audits. It discusses the importance of KPIs for assessing healthcare system effectiveness and efficiency. The key steps outlined are: planning data collection, ensuring data quality, analyzing data against criteria, and interpreting results using charts and graphs. Proper data collection, such as defining data items and sources, and using valid tools and methods is essential for drawing meaningful conclusions from clinical audits and identifying areas for improvement. Presenting results clearly supports effective decision-making and quality improvement initiatives.
Centralization of Healthcare Insurance.docxwrite31
This document outlines an assessment for a course on health care leadership. Students are asked to propose a change to their local health care system and conduct a comparative analysis of two other countries' systems related to the proposed change. They must summarize their proposed change, the outcomes of the foreign systems, and how those systems compare to the current local system in a 4-5 page report. The report should address factors like who pays for care, outcomes, costs of implementing changes, and not implementing changes. Students are encouraged to examine systems with differing outcomes or innovative approaches related to their proposed change.
Data Analysis Quality Improvement Initiative Proposal.docxstudywriters
This document provides instructions for a 8-10 page data analysis and quality improvement initiative proposal. Students are asked to analyze existing dashboard metrics from a healthcare facility to identify an area for improvement. They must then outline a quality improvement proposal that defines the issue, proposes strategies for improvement, and establishes interprofessional roles and responsibilities. Effective communication strategies between the interprofessional team must also be addressed. The goal is for students to apply data analysis skills and evidence-based practices to propose an initiative that enhances patient outcomes, cost-effectiveness, work-life quality, and interprofessional collaboration.
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Conducting the literature review and the evaluation methodology provided an insight into PICO question (Does implementing a new unified acute and ambulatory EHR (Electronic Health Record) system in the hospital, compared to when they are not used, improve the health care quality for the patients through documentation), and obtaining important information about what needs to be considered in a research project, particularly regarding research tool. The research should consider a tool that proves to be reliable and valid. The researcher should want to know if the tool is accurate and measuring what it is intended to measure (Penfold et al., 2011). Picking the wrong tool for research would result in an incomplete result, hence problem with the evidence. Thus, subsequent researchers may not want to use the flawed methodology to conduct their research. The purpose of this paper is to describe the selected evaluation tool for the project with a rationale, to summarize the criteria used in defining evaluation success, and to develop the assessment plan.Describing the Evaluation Tool Selected for the Evaluation Project
The chosen tool for evaluation is the “Electronic Health Record End User Survey” (AHRQ, n.d.). The tool is a questionnaire that focuses on the usability of an EHR. The questionnaire is designed for the clinical staff in the ambulatory setting to evaluate the usability of an electronic health record in ambulatory care. The aim of the assessment tool is to measure the appropriateness of ambulatory care after the implementation of clinical documentation. The device involves various types of a survey that incorporate many stakeholders who ensure that the hospital adopts new technology relating to the improvement of health care within the hospital. The tool is associated with a survey tool for assessing the EHR implementation based on development initiatives guide. The EHR End User Survey measures the effectiveness realized in the hospital setup through documentation as compared to using the old system of documentation. Based on the developed PICO question that aims at evaluating the benefits that subsume the overtaken documentation. The evaluation tool captures various hospital domains including the end users feedback regarding training and competency, usefulness, usability, infrastructure, and the user support. The tool involves the validation efforts based on needs assessment, the pilot study and the analysis of the nurse respondents. The End User Survey tool based on the EHR provides questionnaire type of review where the clinical staff answer the asked questions focusing on the current state assessment and usability within the hospital. The remote documentation applicable to the new unified ambulatory system makes it easier and efficient since it increases the number o ...
We have spent a lot of time this semester talking about various as.docxmelbruce90096
We have spent a lot of time this semester talking about various aspects of the health care industry -- cost, access, utilization, strategy. Another important aspect that needs to be balanced with all these other concerns is QUALITY!
What does QUALITY mean in health care?
How do you go about defining quality in health care? Is there just one measure of quality, or more?!
Find one outside article that addresses health care quality. Tell us about the article and how they define quality.
Be sure to post your citations
Alicia AliendreCOLLAPSE
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In the health care industry quality of care means everyone participating in ways to improve health care such as health care professionals, patients and their families, researchers, payers, planners and educators. These changes lead to better outcomes in health, a better system performance in care, as well as better professional development.
When you describe quality, it’s the process for making strategic choices in health systems for quality assurance in health care and decision making. Although there are many outcomes to improve quality of care, the main concern is accomplishing a goal that will be beneficial for the future.
Good quality means providing patients with appropriate services in a technically competent manner, with good communication, shared decision making, and cultural sensitivity. In practical terms, poor quality can mean too much care (e.g., providing unnecessary tests, medications, and procedures, with associated risks and side effects), too little care (e.g., not providing an indicated diagnostic test or a lifesaving surgical procedure), or the wrong care (e.g., prescribing medicines that should not be given together, using poor surgical technique).
Quality can be evaluated based on structure, process, and outcomes (Donabedian 1980). Structural quality evaluates health system characteristics, process quality assesses interactions between clinicians and patients, and outcomes offer evidence about changes in patients' health status. All three dimensions can provide valuable information for measuring quality, but the published quality-of-care literature reveals that there is more experience with measuring processes of care.
Marie Savino
To many health care consumers quality of health care can mean several different things, including wait times, doctors professionalism, the courtesy of the medical staff and use of updated medical technology, which can all effect how people judge the quality of health care they are receiving. These characteristics may be important to the patient but they do not add up to a quality health care system. Quality health care can be defined as levels of superiority which distinguish the health care provided based on accepted standards of quality. Several factors help measure quality of care:
* Safety- health care does not cause harm
* Effective- health care service is based on scientific and medical knowledge and is right for the.
The document provides information on dashboards and benchmarks for Mercy Medical Center, including demographic data on patients and the local community. It includes dashboards on diabetes patients, readmission rates, falls, injuries, and staffing. The assistant is asked to evaluate one of the dashboards, identify any metrics below benchmarks, analyze challenges to meeting benchmarks, recommend an area for improvement, and advocate for stakeholders to address the issue.
Capella Data Analysis Quality Improvement Initiative Proposal.docxstirlingvwriters
The document provides instructions for a quality improvement initiative proposal based on analyzing healthcare data and metrics. Students will either use provided data from a fictional hospital or obtain real data from their own institution. They will identify an issue or area for improvement, evaluate current quality indicators and initiatives, and propose strategies to enhance processes, outcomes, roles, and communication for interprofessional teams. The proposal should be 8-10 pages including analyses, benchmarks, target areas, and recommendations to improve patient safety, cost-effectiveness, and staff work-life quality through quality improvement.
On April 18, 2016, The United States Supreme Court denied a petiti.docxvannagoforth
On April 18, 2016, The United States Supreme Court denied a petition for certiorari (refused to review the lower court’s ruling) in the case of Authors Guild v. Google, Inc., 804 F. 3d 202 - Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit 2015.
Tell me what you would do if you were the Supreme Court.
That case let stand the ruling of the Court of Appeals, which can be found at the following website:
https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=2220742578695593916&q=Authors+Guild+v.+Google+Inc&hl=en&as_sdt=4000006
Please write a 500-word summary of fair use as this court decision says it.
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Plan
What is your plan for evaluation of the strategies using performance improvement data and tracers? What tracers will you use? Include necessary detail to deliver key points and requirements, such as specific data collection methods, timeframes for evaluation, and intended re-evaluation.
Tracer method is a unique technique used by the healthcare organizations, to obtain a real time picture of quality performance from point of entry to discharge. A key part of The Joint Commission’s on-site survey process is the tracer methodology (The Joint Commission, 2017).. Some traditional tracer tools can be used for quality and safety improvement. The focus of these tools is on ….. and the plan for the evaluation of this initiative for fall prevention will use tracers in the following manner….
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To evaluate the identified measure is the 30 day readmission rate for patients, data twill be racked by system tracers which will be completed monthly by the Assistant Director of Nursing.
Plan Evaluation
How effective and sustainable is your plan? In other words, evaluate the effectiveness and the ease of use, timeliness, and efficiency of your plan for the progress and success of your initiative.
The plan to prevent falls is effective and sustainable with the involvement and collaboration of all team members by implementing the following strategies… The initiative will be evaluated by the following methods, post implementation…….
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Every three months this data will be compiled and analyzed to determine what actions were effective and ineffective. The complete study will take place over a one year period with the desired result of an 15% or below hospital readmission rate.
Use of Tracers
Individual tracers make the most sense to utilize for this proposal because these tracers are designed to “trace” the care experiences that a patient had during hospitalization. For example: in case of fall prevention, these tracers help to track the patient’s experience regarding safety, satisfaction of personal needs, hygiene, compliance of staff during care….. System tracers can be utilized as well, for example….
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System tracers provide information by tracking where in an organizational process breakdowns occur or exist and are a valuable tool in identifying where changes needs to occur. ...
1.- MEASURE Evaluation’s HIS Learning Agend.pdfssuser1286552
This document discusses factors that influence health information system (HIS) performance and progression to a strong HIS. It addresses three questions: 1) factors associated with HIS performance progress include leadership engagement, integrated interventions, and feedback systems; 2) progression can be measured across five stages from emerging to optimized; 3) a strong HIS is well-defined, comprehensive, functional, adaptable, and resilient. The document provides information on MEASURE Evaluation's HIS Learning Agenda which seeks to build an evidence base on effective HIS investments.
How to Assess and Continuously Improve Maturity of Health Information Systems...MEASURE Evaluation
This document describes a new toolkit for assessing and continuously improving health information systems (HIS) to achieve better health outcomes. The toolkit includes:
1) A five-stage scale to measure the maturity of six HIS components, from emerging to optimized.
2) An assessment tool that maps the current and desired future stages to guide improvement planning. It is administered through key informant interviews and a stakeholder workshop.
3) The goal is to help countries strengthen their HIS through a collaborative, participatory process focused on setting priorities and tracking progress over time.
Chapter 5 Program Evaluation and Research TechniquesCharlene R. .docxchristinemaritza
Chapter 5 Program Evaluation and Research Techniques
Charlene R. Weir
Evaluation of health information technology (health IT) programs and projects can range from simple user satisfaction for a new menu or full-scale analysis of usage, cost, compliance, patient outcomes, and observation of usage to data about patient's rate of improvement.
Objectives
At the completion of this chapter the reader will be prepared to:
1.Identify the main components of program evaluation
2.Discuss the differences between formative and summative evaluation
3.Apply the three levels of theory relevant to program evaluation
4.Discriminate program evaluation from program planning and research
5.Synthesize the core components of program evaluation with the unique characteristics of informatics interventions
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Evaluation, 72
Formative evaluation, 73
Logic model, 79
Program evaluation, 73
Summative evaluation, 73
Abstract
Evaluation is an essential component in the life cycle of all health IT applications and the key to successful translation of these applications into clinical settings. In planning an evaluation the central questions regarding purpose, scope, and focus of the system must be asked. This chapter focuses on the larger principles of program evaluation with the goal of informing health IT evaluations in clinical settings. The reader is expected to gain sufficient background in health IT evaluation to lead or participate in program evaluation for applications or systems.
Formative evaluation and summative evaluation are discussed. Three levels of theory are presented, including scientific theory, implementation models, and program theory (logic models). Specific scientific theories include social cognitive theories, diffusion of innovation, cognitive engineering theories, and information theory. Four implementation models are reviewed: PRECEDE-PROCEED, PARiHS, RE-AIM, and quality improvement. Program theory models are discussed, with an emphasis on logic models.
A review of methods and tools is presented. Relevant research designs are presented for health IT evaluations, including time series, multiple baseline, and regression discontinuity. Methods of data collection specific to health IT evaluations, including ethnographic observation, interviews, and surveys, are then reviewed.
Introduction
The outcome of evaluation is information that is both useful at the program level and generalizable enough to contribute to the building of science. In the applied sciences, such as informatics, evaluation is critical to the growth of both the specialty and the science. In this chapter program evaluation is defined as the “systematic collection of information about the activities, characteristics, and results of programs to make judgments about the program, improve or further develop program effectiveness, inform decisions about future programming, and/or increase understanding.”1 Health IT interventions are nearly always embedded in ...
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SBAR communication tool is an effective and simple communication method that works across all the healthcare disciplines to create a safer working environment. Müller et al. (2018) reveal that using SBAR enhances efficacy, accuracy, and efficiency of handoff reports which boosts patient safety by improving communication and encouraging patient involvement Ineffective, absent, or inadequate communication leading to patient safety concerns has become a big problem in many care facilities, including where I work. According to Herawati et al. (2018), poor patient handoff communication from caregivers reduces patient safety. Regardless of the technological advancements, interdisciplinary care providers in many care facilities still do not communicate effectively, threatening patient's safety.
The use of written handoff using SBAR was implemented two years ago in the hospital I work. The handoff is easily accessible by all interdisciplinary team directly working with the patient and this is also used as a communication tool when giving report. According to Uhm et al. (2019), implementing a well-developed SBAR program of communication grounded on learning theory improves nurses' communication skills and boosts their confidence during patient handover. All the team member in the hospital identified the implementation of SBAR (Situation-Background-Assessment-Recommendation) as a solution for the persisting communication problem among caregivers, especially during patient handoffs within the hospital. The use of SBAR as a communication tool has been highly effective, reading the SBAR handoff note only allows you to know a lot about the patient situation and history. Implementing the evidence-based intervention is timely and in line with the organization's policies that prioritize patient safety and high-quality care delivery. Standardized processes, including SBAR, have effectively eradicated missing care information incidents and promoted information sharing among healthcare professionals. Studies have established poor communication during patient handoffs as the main cause of misguided actions, lost information, and misinterpretation of critical care information (Uhm et al., 2019). I will desceibe the steps of implementing evidenced practice at my working according to the discussion I had with my manager.
The model for improvement is a four steps approach that guides the effective implementation of SBAR to solve communication problems among caregivers. Planning is the first model's step to implementing the SBAR practice. This phase involves visible and strong leadership from the hospital's senior managers and clinical champions to gather enough support for the practice change (Müller et al., 2018). At this phase, the team should decide where to start the SBAR test by thinking about the area with substantia ...
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For the Course Project, you are asked to research a healthcare organization, health information functions, and information technology used at this facility. Your report should identify the type of healthcare setting, identify services offered, identify users of health information and their needs, discuss how user needs are met, describe health information functions performed at this organization, and describe at least one information system used in this facility along with the system's functions and role in healthcare delivery. Application of knowledge attained in this class will support your ability to critically analyze your findings, to assess the strengths and weaknesses of this organization's health information technologies, and provide recommendations for improvement as may be appropriate to the situation. This project is valued at 240 points (24% of your grade).
Examples of the types of healthcare organization that may be appropriate subjects for this type of project include hospitals, hospital systems, integrated healthcare systems, multispecialty medical clinics, physician practice offices, ambulatory surgical centers, mental health service providers, public health clinics, rehabilitation or long-term care facilities, insurance companies, pharmacies, Urgent care clinics, etc. The organization chosen must be complex enough to offer sufficient challenge and must be realistic in terms of information available at a level needed to complete the project in the required time frame. For example, an assisted living facility that does not make use of information systems would not be appropriate for this project.
There is no need to, nor would it be appropriate to access any confidential patient information in order to complete the project.
The best learning experience is obtained when you go through a dynamic communication process with people in the chosen healthcare organization. It is preferred that you interview someone who works in health information management (HIM director, coder, someone in the registration area, someone working with health information systems, release of information, billing, etc.); however, interviews with physicians, nurses, or other clinicians or administrative assistants will work, too. Yes, it may take several attempts and different modes of communications to secure an interview but you need to be persistent, proactive, and adaptive in order to achieve your goal: the interview. If your communication attempts and/or completion of the interview fails, you may consider using your own experience in using health information systems, or research AHIMA resources, articles, and case studies available online or library resources. In such cases, reach out to the professor for more guidance.
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- TVS Motor Company is part of the larger TVS Group, a diversified conglomerate with presence in automotive, electronics, and other industries.
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Overview
Prepare an 8 page data analysis and quality improvement initiative proposal based on a health issue of professional interest to you. The audience for your analysis and proposal is the nursing staff and the interprofessional team who will implement the initiative.
"A basic principle of quality measurement is: If you can't measure it, you can't improve it" (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2013).
Health care providers are on an endless quest to improve both care quality and patient safety. This unwavering commitment requires hospitals and care givers to increase their attention and adherence to treatment protocols to improve patient outcomes. Health informatics, along with new and improved technologies and procedures, are at the core of virtually all quality improvement initiatives. The data gathered by providers, along with process improvement models and recognized quality benchmarks, are all part of a collaborative, continuing effort. As such, it is essential that professional nurses are able to correctly interpret, and effectively communicate information revealed on dashboards that display critical care metrics.
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
· Competency 2: Plan quality improvement initiatives in response to routine data surveillance.
· Outline a QI initiative proposal based on a selected health issue and supporting data analysis.
· Competency 3: Evaluate quality improvement initiatives using sensitive and sound outcome measures.
· Analyze data to identify a health care issue or area of concern.
· Competency 4: Integrate interprofessional perspectives to lead quality improvements in patient safety, cost effectiveness, and work-life quality.
· Integrate interprofessional perspectives to lead quality improvements in patient safety, cost effectiveness, and work-life quality.
· Competency 5: Apply effective communication strategies to promote quality improvement of interprofessional care.
· Apply effective communication strategies to promote quality improvement of interprofessional care.
· Communicate evaluation and analysis in a professional and effective manner, writing content clearly and logically with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
Assessment Instructions
Preparation
In this assessment, you will propose a quality improvement (QI) initiative proposal based on a health issue of professional interest to you. The QI initiative proposal will be based on an analysis of dashboard metrics from a health care facility. You have one of two options:
Option 1
If you have access to dashboard metrics related to a QI initiative proposal of interest to you:
· Analyze data from the health care facility to identify a health care issue or area of concern. You will need access to reports and data related to care quality and patient safety. If you work in hospital setting, contact the quality management ...
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Application 3: Health Information Technology Project [Major Assessment 5]
In previous Discussions and Applications, you have explored various aspects of health information technology systems: the historic development of HIT, how data flows across HIT systems, and standards and interoperability requirements including specific terminologies used in your practice setting.
In this Application Assignment, you will have the opportunity to further develop your analysis skills by closely examining the implementation of a health information technology system. As a DNP-prepared nurse, you may find yourself in the position of leading a HIT project team; to be an effective leader and move health information technology projects forward in your organization, you must be able to logically and critically analyze the many aspects and challenges of implementing such a system and then present your insights in a succinct and professional manner. This exercise provides an opportunity to hone those skills.
Carefully review the project requirements below and plan your time accordingly.
To prepare:
Investigate a health information technology system or health information technology application in your area of interest. The health information technology system/application may be in any setting where health care information is developed or managed. You may choose your system or application from any organization or virtual environment.
Examples of health information technology systems or health information technology applications that are acceptable include but are not limited to:
· Consumer health applications
· Clinical information systems
· Electronic medical record (EMR) systems in hospitals or provider offices
· Home health care applications
· School health applications
· Patient portal/personal health record
· Public health information systems
· Telehealth (i.e., from facility to home)
· Simulation laboratories
· Health care informatics research and development centers
NOTE: In your submitted report, do not share proprietary information, personal names, or organization names without permission.
Application 3: Health Information Technology Project [Major Assessment 5]
To complete:
Your deliverable is a 12- to-15-page scholarly report, not counting the title page, abstract, or references. A successful report should leave the reader with confidence in understanding the answers to all the questions listed below. Graphics may be used to illustrate key points.
Organization Information
Briefly describe the health information technology system/application and the organization type (hospital, clinic, public health agency, health care software company, government health information website, private virtual health information site, etc.)
Is the health information technology system/application clinical, administrative, educational, or research related?
What were the key reasons for the development of this health information technology system/application, i.e., what mad.
This document outlines the process of clinical audit, which involves comparing aspects of patient care against explicit criteria to improve outcomes. It discusses establishing structure, measuring processes, and evaluating outcomes. The document also describes the audit cycle of preparing, selecting criteria, measuring performance, making improvements, and sustaining them over time. Clinical audit is presented as a way for healthcare professionals and organizations to critically examine practices and ensure patients receive optimal care.
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Write a report on the application of population health improvement initiative outcomes to patient-centered care, based on information presented in an interactive multimedia scenario.
In this assessment, you have an opportunity to apply the tenets of evidence-based practice in both patient-centered care and population health improvement contexts. You will be challenged to think critically, evaluate what the evidence suggests is an appropriate approach to personalizing patient care, and determine what aspects of the approach could be applied to similar situations and patients.
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
Competency 1: Apply evidence-based practice to plan patient-centered care.
Evaluate the outcomes of a population health improvement initiative.
Develop an approach to personalizing patient care that incorporates lessons learned from a population health improvement initiative.
Competency 2: Apply evidence-based practice to design interventions to improve population health.
Propose a strategy for improving the outcomes of a population health improvement initiative, or for ensuring that all outcomes are being addressed, based on the best available evidence.
Competency 3: Evaluate outcomes of evidence-based interventions.
Propose a framework for evaluating the outcomes of an approach to personalizing patient care and determining what aspects of the approach could be applied to similar situations and patients.
Competency 4: Evaluate the value and relative weight of available evidence upon which to make a clinical decision.
Justify the value and relevance of evidence used to support an approach to personalizing patient care.
Competency 5: Synthesize evidence-based practice and academic research to communicate effective solutions.
Write clearly and logically, with correct grammar and mechanics.
Integrate relevant and credible sources of evidence to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.
Competency Map
Use this online tool to track your performance and progress through your course.
Questions to ConsiderAs you prepare to complete this assessment, you may want to think about other related issues to deepen your understanding or broaden your viewpoint. You are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of your professional community. Note that these questions are for your own development and exploration and do not need to be completed or submitted as part of your assessment.
Recall an instance in which you have taken a strategy, finding, or lesson learned from one care context and applied it in another.
What challenges did this type of knowledge transfer present?
Did applying this knowledge in a different setting lead to improvemen.
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According to (Fatehi, Gordon & Florida, N.D.) theoretical orientation represent styles of mind for understanding reality. This theoretical orientation can be organized as a continuum from theoretical constructs that are independent and concrete as with the Behavioral/ CBT theories, to theoretical constructs that are interdependent and abstract as with the Psychodynamic theories (Fatehi, Gordon & Florida, N.D.). Family systems and Humanistic/Existential are theoretical midpoints (Fatehi, Gordon & Florida, N.D.). Trait theory tends to focus on the premise that we are born with traits or characteristics that make us unique and explain our behaviors (Cervone& Pervin, 2019). For example, introversion, extroversion, shyness, agreeableness, kindness, etc. all these innate characteristics that we are born help to explain why we behave in a certain manner according to the situations we face, (Cervone& Pervin, 2019). Psychoanalytic perspective on the other hand focuses on childhood experiences and the unconscious mind which plays a role in our personality development, (Cervone& Pervin, 2019).
According to Freud, (Cervone& Pervin, 2019) our unconscious mind includes all our hidden desires and conflicts which form the root cause of our mental health issues or maladaptive behaviors. The main difference between these two perspectives is that trait theory helps to explain why we behave in a certain manner, whereas psychoanalytic theory only describes the personality and predicting behavior and not really explaining why we behave the way we do. There is no such evident similarity between the two perspectives, but kind of rely on underlying mechanisms to explain personality. Also, there is some degree of subjectivity present in both the perspectives. Trait theories involve subjectivity regarding interpretations of which can be considered as important traits that explain our behaviors, and psychoanalytic theory is subjective and vague in the concepts been used like the unconscious mind. My opinions accord with the visible contrasts between the two, one focused on internal features describing our behaviors in clearer words, whilst other concentrating on unconscious mind in anticipating behavior which is ambiguous and harder to grasp.
References
Cervone, D., & Pervin, L. A. (2019). Personality: Theory and research (14th ed.). Wiley.
Fatehi, M., Gordon, R. M., & Florida, O. A Meta-Theoretical Integration of Psychotherapy Orientations.
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Implementing SBAR
SBAR communication tool is an effective and simple communication method that works across all the healthcare disciplines to create a safer working environment. Müller et al. (2018) reveal that using SBAR enhances efficacy, accuracy, and efficiency of handoff reports which boosts patient safety by improving communication and encouraging patient involvement Ineffective, absent, or inadequate communication leading to patient safety concerns has become a big problem in many care facilities, including where I work. According to Herawati et al. (2018), poor patient handoff communication from caregivers reduces patient safety. Regardless of the technological advancements, interdisciplinary care providers in many care facilities still do not communicate effectively, threatening patient's safety.
The use of written handoff using SBAR was implemented two years ago in the hospital I work. The handoff is easily accessible by all interdisciplinary team directly working with the patient and this is also used as a communication tool when giving report. According to Uhm et al. (2019), implementing a well-developed SBAR program of communication grounded on learning theory improves nurses' communication skills and boosts their confidence during patient handover. All the team member in the hospital identified the implementation of SBAR (Situation-Background-Assessment-Recommendation) as a solution for the persisting communication problem among caregivers, especially during patient handoffs within the hospital. The use of SBAR as a communication tool has been highly effective, reading the SBAR handoff note only allows you to know a lot about the patient situation and history. Implementing the evidence-based intervention is timely and in line with the organization's policies that prioritize patient safety and high-quality care delivery. Standardized processes, including SBAR, have effectively eradicated missing care information incidents and promoted information sharing among healthcare professionals. Studies have established poor communication during patient handoffs as the main cause of misguided actions, lost information, and misinterpretation of critical care information (Uhm et al., 2019). I will desceibe the steps of implementing evidenced practice at my working according to the discussion I had with my manager.
The model for improvement is a four steps approach that guides the effective implementation of SBAR to solve communication problems among caregivers. Planning is the first model's step to implementing the SBAR practice. This phase involves visible and strong leadership from the hospital's senior managers and clinical champions to gather enough support for the practice change (Müller et al., 2018). At this phase, the team should decide where to start the SBAR test by thinking about the area with substantia ...
For the Course Project, you are asked to research a healthcare shantayjewison
For the Course Project, you are asked to research a healthcare organization, health information functions, and information technology used at this facility. Your report should identify the type of healthcare setting, identify services offered, identify users of health information and their needs, discuss how user needs are met, describe health information functions performed at this organization, and describe at least one information system used in this facility along with the system's functions and role in healthcare delivery. Application of knowledge attained in this class will support your ability to critically analyze your findings, to assess the strengths and weaknesses of this organization's health information technologies, and provide recommendations for improvement as may be appropriate to the situation. This project is valued at 240 points (24% of your grade).
Examples of the types of healthcare organization that may be appropriate subjects for this type of project include hospitals, hospital systems, integrated healthcare systems, multispecialty medical clinics, physician practice offices, ambulatory surgical centers, mental health service providers, public health clinics, rehabilitation or long-term care facilities, insurance companies, pharmacies, Urgent care clinics, etc. The organization chosen must be complex enough to offer sufficient challenge and must be realistic in terms of information available at a level needed to complete the project in the required time frame. For example, an assisted living facility that does not make use of information systems would not be appropriate for this project.
There is no need to, nor would it be appropriate to access any confidential patient information in order to complete the project.
The best learning experience is obtained when you go through a dynamic communication process with people in the chosen healthcare organization. It is preferred that you interview someone who works in health information management (HIM director, coder, someone in the registration area, someone working with health information systems, release of information, billing, etc.); however, interviews with physicians, nurses, or other clinicians or administrative assistants will work, too. Yes, it may take several attempts and different modes of communications to secure an interview but you need to be persistent, proactive, and adaptive in order to achieve your goal: the interview. If your communication attempts and/or completion of the interview fails, you may consider using your own experience in using health information systems, or research AHIMA resources, articles, and case studies available online or library resources. In such cases, reach out to the professor for more guidance.
For successful completion of the project, please follow the guidelines below and comply with the criteria listed in the grading rubric for deliverables, organization, grammar, and resourcefulnes ...
Study on after sales and service in tvsProjects Kart
The document provides an overview of TVS Motor Company including:
- TVS Motor Company is one of India's leading two-wheeler manufacturers based in Hosur, Tamil Nadu.
- It started as a moped division in 1979 and later had a joint venture with Suzuki, becoming a leader in 100cc motorcycles.
- TVS Motor Company is part of the larger TVS Group, a diversified conglomerate with presence in automotive, electronics, and other industries.
OverviewPrepare an 8 page data analysis and quality improvement .docxkarlhennesey
Overview
Prepare an 8 page data analysis and quality improvement initiative proposal based on a health issue of professional interest to you. The audience for your analysis and proposal is the nursing staff and the interprofessional team who will implement the initiative.
"A basic principle of quality measurement is: If you can't measure it, you can't improve it" (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2013).
Health care providers are on an endless quest to improve both care quality and patient safety. This unwavering commitment requires hospitals and care givers to increase their attention and adherence to treatment protocols to improve patient outcomes. Health informatics, along with new and improved technologies and procedures, are at the core of virtually all quality improvement initiatives. The data gathered by providers, along with process improvement models and recognized quality benchmarks, are all part of a collaborative, continuing effort. As such, it is essential that professional nurses are able to correctly interpret, and effectively communicate information revealed on dashboards that display critical care metrics.
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
· Competency 2: Plan quality improvement initiatives in response to routine data surveillance.
· Outline a QI initiative proposal based on a selected health issue and supporting data analysis.
· Competency 3: Evaluate quality improvement initiatives using sensitive and sound outcome measures.
· Analyze data to identify a health care issue or area of concern.
· Competency 4: Integrate interprofessional perspectives to lead quality improvements in patient safety, cost effectiveness, and work-life quality.
· Integrate interprofessional perspectives to lead quality improvements in patient safety, cost effectiveness, and work-life quality.
· Competency 5: Apply effective communication strategies to promote quality improvement of interprofessional care.
· Apply effective communication strategies to promote quality improvement of interprofessional care.
· Communicate evaluation and analysis in a professional and effective manner, writing content clearly and logically with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
Assessment Instructions
Preparation
In this assessment, you will propose a quality improvement (QI) initiative proposal based on a health issue of professional interest to you. The QI initiative proposal will be based on an analysis of dashboard metrics from a health care facility. You have one of two options:
Option 1
If you have access to dashboard metrics related to a QI initiative proposal of interest to you:
· Analyze data from the health care facility to identify a health care issue or area of concern. You will need access to reports and data related to care quality and patient safety. If you work in hospital setting, contact the quality management ...
Application 3 Health Information Technology Project [Major Assess.docxrossskuddershamus
Application 3: Health Information Technology Project [Major Assessment 5]
In previous Discussions and Applications, you have explored various aspects of health information technology systems: the historic development of HIT, how data flows across HIT systems, and standards and interoperability requirements including specific terminologies used in your practice setting.
In this Application Assignment, you will have the opportunity to further develop your analysis skills by closely examining the implementation of a health information technology system. As a DNP-prepared nurse, you may find yourself in the position of leading a HIT project team; to be an effective leader and move health information technology projects forward in your organization, you must be able to logically and critically analyze the many aspects and challenges of implementing such a system and then present your insights in a succinct and professional manner. This exercise provides an opportunity to hone those skills.
Carefully review the project requirements below and plan your time accordingly.
To prepare:
Investigate a health information technology system or health information technology application in your area of interest. The health information technology system/application may be in any setting where health care information is developed or managed. You may choose your system or application from any organization or virtual environment.
Examples of health information technology systems or health information technology applications that are acceptable include but are not limited to:
· Consumer health applications
· Clinical information systems
· Electronic medical record (EMR) systems in hospitals or provider offices
· Home health care applications
· School health applications
· Patient portal/personal health record
· Public health information systems
· Telehealth (i.e., from facility to home)
· Simulation laboratories
· Health care informatics research and development centers
NOTE: In your submitted report, do not share proprietary information, personal names, or organization names without permission.
Application 3: Health Information Technology Project [Major Assessment 5]
To complete:
Your deliverable is a 12- to-15-page scholarly report, not counting the title page, abstract, or references. A successful report should leave the reader with confidence in understanding the answers to all the questions listed below. Graphics may be used to illustrate key points.
Organization Information
Briefly describe the health information technology system/application and the organization type (hospital, clinic, public health agency, health care software company, government health information website, private virtual health information site, etc.)
Is the health information technology system/application clinical, administrative, educational, or research related?
What were the key reasons for the development of this health information technology system/application, i.e., what mad.
This document outlines the process of clinical audit, which involves comparing aspects of patient care against explicit criteria to improve outcomes. It discusses establishing structure, measuring processes, and evaluating outcomes. The document also describes the audit cycle of preparing, selecting criteria, measuring performance, making improvements, and sustaining them over time. Clinical audit is presented as a way for healthcare professionals and organizations to critically examine practices and ensure patients receive optimal care.
Write a report on the application of population health improve.docxarnoldmeredith47041
Write a report on the application of population health improvement initiative outcomes to patient-centered care, based on information presented in an interactive multimedia scenario.
In this assessment, you have an opportunity to apply the tenets of evidence-based practice in both patient-centered care and population health improvement contexts. You will be challenged to think critically, evaluate what the evidence suggests is an appropriate approach to personalizing patient care, and determine what aspects of the approach could be applied to similar situations and patients.
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
Competency 1: Apply evidence-based practice to plan patient-centered care.
Evaluate the outcomes of a population health improvement initiative.
Develop an approach to personalizing patient care that incorporates lessons learned from a population health improvement initiative.
Competency 2: Apply evidence-based practice to design interventions to improve population health.
Propose a strategy for improving the outcomes of a population health improvement initiative, or for ensuring that all outcomes are being addressed, based on the best available evidence.
Competency 3: Evaluate outcomes of evidence-based interventions.
Propose a framework for evaluating the outcomes of an approach to personalizing patient care and determining what aspects of the approach could be applied to similar situations and patients.
Competency 4: Evaluate the value and relative weight of available evidence upon which to make a clinical decision.
Justify the value and relevance of evidence used to support an approach to personalizing patient care.
Competency 5: Synthesize evidence-based practice and academic research to communicate effective solutions.
Write clearly and logically, with correct grammar and mechanics.
Integrate relevant and credible sources of evidence to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.
Competency Map
Use this online tool to track your performance and progress through your course.
Questions to ConsiderAs you prepare to complete this assessment, you may want to think about other related issues to deepen your understanding or broaden your viewpoint. You are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of your professional community. Note that these questions are for your own development and exploration and do not need to be completed or submitted as part of your assessment.
Recall an instance in which you have taken a strategy, finding, or lesson learned from one care context and applied it in another.
What challenges did this type of knowledge transfer present?
Did applying this knowledge in a different setting lead to improvemen.
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References
Cervone, D., & Pervin, L. A. (2019). Personality: Theory and research (14th ed.). Wiley.
Fatehi, M., Gordon, R. M., & Florida, O. A Meta-Theoretical Integration of Psychotherapy Orientations.
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Consider this town
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by Niederhauser, Zullig, Marschall, Schweiger, John, Kuster, and Schwappach. (2019).
Identifying the study's elements or processes
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Determining the strengths and weaknesses
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Evaluating the credibility and trustworthiness of the study
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Abstract:
In this experiment, examining the equivalence point in a titration with NaOH identified an
unknown diprotic acid. The molar mass of the unknown was found to be 100.78 g/mol with pKa
values of 2.6 and 6.6. The closest diprotic acid to this molar mass is malonic acid with a percent
error of 3.48%.
Introduction:
The purpose of the experiment was to determine the identity of an unknown diprotic acid. The
equivalence and half-equivalence points on the titration curve give important information, which
can then be used to calculate the molecular weight of the acid. The equivalence point is the
moment when there is an equal amount of acid and NaOH. Knowing the concentration and
volume of added NaOH at that moment, the amount of moles of NaOH can be determined. The
amount of moles of NaOH is then equivalent to the amount of acid present. Dividing the original
mass of the acid by the moles present gave the molar mass of the acid.
In this particular titration, there were two equivalence points as the acid is diprotic.
Consequently, the titration curve had two inflection points. The acid dissociated in a two-step
process with the net reaction being:
H2X + 2 NaOH Na2X + 2 H2O
This was important to take into consideration when calculating the molar mass of the diprotic
acid. If the first equivalence point was to be used, the ratio of acid to NaOH was 1:1. If the
second equivalence point was used in the calculations, the ratio became 1:2 as now a second
set of NaOH molecules reacted with the acid to dissociate the second hydrogen ion. The
titration curve also showed the pKa values of the acid. This happened at the half-equivalence
point where half of the acid was dissociated to its conjugate base (again, because of the diprotic
properties of the acid, this happens twice on the curve). The Henderson Hasselbalch equation
pH = pKa+log(A-/HA)
shows that at the half-equivalence point, the pKa value equaled the pH and was visually
represented by the flattest part of the graphs.
Discussion:
The titration graph showed that the data was consistent with the methodology and proved to be
an precise execution of the procedure and followed the expected shape. One possible source of
error was the actual mass of the acid solid. While transferring the dust from the weigh boat to
the solution, some remained in the weigh boat this could have altered the molar mass
calculations and shifted the final the final mass lighter than actual.
The Vernier pH method was definitely a much more concrete method of interpreting the results.
It was possible to see which addition of NaOH gave the greatest increase in pH ( greatest 1st
derivative of the titration graph). The relying solely on the indicator color would make it very
difficult to judge at which precise point the color shifted most, as the shift was a lot more gradual
compared to the precise numbers. This may have been a more reliable method if there was a
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ACC 403- ASSIGNMENT 2 RUBRIC!!!
Points: 280
Assignment 2: Audit Planning and Control
Criteria
UnacceptableBelow 60% F
Meets Minimum Expectations60-69% D
Fair70-79% C
Proficient80-89% B
Exemplary90-100% A
1. Outline the critical steps inherent in planning an audit and designing an effective audit program. Based upon the type of company selected, provide specific details of the actions that the company should undertake during planning and designing the audit program.
Weight: 15%
Did not submit or incompletely outlined the critical steps inherent in planning an audit and designing an effective audit program. Did not submit or incompletely provided specific details of the actions that the company should undertake during planning and designing the audit program, based upon the type of company selected.
Insufficiently outlined the critical steps inherent in planning an audit and designing an effective audit program. Insufficiently provided specific details of the actions that the company should undertake during planning and designing the audit program, based upon the type of company selected.
Partially outlined the critical steps inherent in planning an audit and designing an effective audit program. Partially provided specific details of the actions that the company should undertake during planning and designing the audit program, based upon the type of company selected.
Satisfactorily outlined the critical steps inherent in planning an audit and designing an effective audit program. Satisfactorily provided specific details of the actions that the company should undertake during planning and designing the audit program, based upon the type of company selected.
Thoroughly outlined the critical steps inherent in planning an audit and designing an effective audit program. Thoroughly provided specific details of the actions that the company should undertake during planning and designing the audit program, based upon the type of company selected.
2. Examine at least two (2) performance ratios that you would use in order to determine which analytical tests to perform. Identify the accounts that you would test, and select at least three (3) analytical procedures that you would use in your audit.
Weight: 15%
Did not submit or incompletely examined at least two (2) performance ratios that you would use in order to determine which analytical tests to perform. Did not submit or incompletely identified the accounts that you would test; did not submit or incompletely selected at least three (3) analytical procedures that you would use in your audit.
Insufficiently examined at least two (2) performance ratios that you would use in order to determine which analytical tests to perform. Insufficiently identified the accounts that you would test; insufficiently selected at least three (3) analytical procedures that you would use in your audit.
Partially examined at least two (2) performance ratios that you would use in order to determine which analytical tests .
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ACC 601 Managerial Accounting
Group Case 3 (160 points)
Instructions:
1. As a group, complete the following activities in good form. Use excel or
word only. Provide all supporting calculations to show how you arrived at
your numbers
2. Add only the names of group members who participated in the completion
of this assignment.
3. Submit only one copy of your completed work via Moodle. Do not send it to
me by email.
4. Due: No later than the last day of Module 7. Please note that your professor
has the right to change the due date of this assignment.
Part A: Capital Budgeting Decisions
Chee Company has gathered the following data on a proposed investment project:
Investment required in equipment ............. $240,000
Annual cash inflows .................................. $50,000
Salvage value ............................................ $0
Life of the investment ............................... 8 years
Required rate of return .............................. 10%
Assets will be depreciated using straight
line depreciation method
Required:
Using the net present value and the internal rate of return methods, is this a good investment?
Part B: Master Budget
You have just been hired as a new management trainee by Earrings Unlimited, a distributor of
earrings to various retail outlets located in shopping malls across the country. In the past, the
company has done very little in the way of budgeting and at certain times of the year has
experienced a shortage of cash. Since you are well trained in budgeting, you have decided to
prepare a master budget for the upcoming second quarter. To this end, you have worked with
accounting and other areas to gather the information assembled below.
The company sells many styles of earrings, but all are sold for the same price—$10 per pair. Actual
sales of earrings for the last three months and budgeted sales for the next six months follow (in pairs
of earrings):
January (actual) 20,000 June (budget) 50,000
February (actual) 26,000 July (budget) 30,000
March (actual) 40,000 August (budget) 28,000
April (budget) 65,000 September (budget) 25,000
May (budget) 100,000
The concentration of sales before and during May is due to Mother’s Day. Sufficient inventory should
be on hand at the end of each month to supply 40% of the earrings sold in the following month.
Suppliers are paid $4 for a pair of earrings. One-half of a month’s purchases is paid for in the month
of purchase; the other half is paid for in the following month. All sales are on credit. Only 20% of a
month’s sales are collected in the month of sale. An additional 70% is collected in the following
month, and the remaining 10% is collected in the second month following sale. Bad debts have been
negligible.
Monthly operating expenses for the company are given below:
Variable:
Sales commissions 4 % of sales
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Academic Integrity:
A Letter to My Students[1]
Bill Taylor
Professor of Political Science
Oakton Community College
Des Plaines, IL 60016
[email protected]
Here at the beginning of the semester I want to say something to you about academic integrity.[2]
I’m deeply convinced that integrity is an essential part of any true educational experience, integrity on
my part as a faculty member and integrity on your part as a student.
To take an easy example, would you want to be operated on by a doctor who cheated his way through
medical school? Or would you feel comfortable on a bridge designed by an engineer who cheated her
way through engineering school. Would you trust your tax return to an accountant who copied his
exam answers from his neighbor?
Those are easy examples, but what difference does it make if you as a student or I as a faculty member
violate the principles of academic integrity in a political science course, especially if it’s not in your
major?
For me, the answer is that integrity is important in this course precisely because integrity is important in
all areas of life. If we don’t have integrity in the small things, if we find it possible to justify plagiarism or
cheating or shoddy work in things that don’t seem important, how will we resist doing the same in areas
that really do matter, in areas where money might be at stake, or the possibility of advancement, or our
esteem in the eyes of others?
Personal integrity is not a quality we’re born to naturally. It’s a quality of character we need to nurture,
and this requires practice in both meanings of that word (as in practice the piano and practice a
profession). We can only be a person of integrity if we practice it every day.
What does that involve for each of us in this course? Let’s find out by going through each stage in the
course. As you’ll see, academic integrity basically requires the same things of you as a student as it
requires of me as a teacher.
I. Preparation for Class
What Academic Integrity Requires of Me in This Area
With regard to coming prepared for class, the principles of academic integrity require that I come having
done the things necessary to make the class a worthwhile educational experience for you. This requires
that I:
reread the text (even when I’ve written it myself),
clarify information I might not be clear about,
prepare the class with an eye toward what is current today (that is, not simply rely on past
notes), and
plan the session so that it will make it worth your while to be there.
What Academic Integrity Requires of You in This Area
With regard to coming prepared for class, the principles of academic integrity suggest that you have a
responsibility to yourself, to me, and to the other students to do the things necessary to put yourself in
a position to make fruitful contributions to class discussion. This will require you to:
read the text before.
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Access the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s)
“Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity: Data, Trends and Maps”
database. Choose a state other than your home state and compare their health status and associated behaviors. What behaviors lead to the current obesity status?
Initial discussion post should be approximately 300 words. Any sources used should be cited in APA format.
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According to DSM 5 This patient had very many symptoms that suggested Major Depressive Disorder.
Objective(s)
Analyze psychometric properties of assessment tools
Evaluate appropriate use of assessment tools in psychotherapy
Compare assessment tools used in psychotherapy
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Acceptable concerts include professional orchestras, soloists, jazz, Broadway musicals and instrumental or vocal ensembles, and comparable college or community groups performing music relevant to the content of this class. (Optionally, either your concert report
or
your concert review - but not both unless advance permission is given - may be based on a concert of non-western music selected from events on the concert list.)
Acceptable concerts include the following:
• Symphony orchestras • Concert bands and wind ensembles • Chamber Music (string quartets, brass and woodwind quintets, etc.) • Solo recitals (piano, voice, etc.) • Choral concerts • Early music concerts • Non-western music • Some jazz concerts • Opera• Broadway Musicals• Flamenco• Ballet• Tango
Assignment Format
The following are required on the concert review assignment and, thus, may affect your grade.
• Must be typed• Must be double-spaced• Must be between
2 and 4 pages
in length
not including the cover sheet
.• Must use conventional size and formatting of text - e.g. 10-12 point serif or sans serif fonts with normal margins. • Must include the printed program from the concert and/or your ticket stubs. Photocopies are unacceptable. (Contact me at least 24 hours before due date if any materials are unavailable.)• All materials (text, program, ticket stub) must be
stapled
together securely. Folded corners, paper clips, etc. instead of staples will not be accepted.• Careful editing, proofreading, and spelling are expected, although minor errors will not affect your grade.
Papers that do not follow these format guidelines may be returned for resubmission, and late penalties will apply.
Concert Review Assignment Content
I. Cover Sheet:
Include the following on a cover sheet attached to the front of your review:
• Title or other description of the event/performers you heard, along with the date and location of the performance. For example:
New World Symphony Orchestra
1258 Lincoln Road
Saturday, June 5, 2013
Lincoln Road Theater, Miami Beach
• Your name, assignment submission date, course. For example:
Pat Romero
October 31, 2013
Humanities 1020 MWF 8:05 a.m.
II. Descriptions
The main body of the concert review should include brief discussions of
three of the
pieces
in the concert you attend. In most cases, a single paragraph for each piece should be sufficient, although you may wish to break descriptions of longer pieces into separate short paragraphs, one per movement.
Your description of each piece (song) should include:
• The title of the piece and the composer's name if possible, as listed in the concert program.• A brief description of your reaction to the piece. For example:
When the piece started I thought it was going to be slow and boring, but the faster section in the first movement made it more exciting. A really great flute solo full of fast and high notes in the third movement caught my attention. I'm not sure, but I thought that som.
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Academic Research Team Project Paper
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An AI challenge with AI2, CZI, MSR, Georgetown, NIH & The White House
(1) FULL-LENGTH PROJECT
Dataset Description
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Call to Action
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Tasks
section of this dataset. These key scientific questions are drawn from the NASEM’s SCIED (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Standing Committee on Emerging Infectious Diseases and 21st Century Health Threats)
research topics
and the World Health Organization’s
R&D Blueprint
for COVID-19.
Many of these questions are suitable for text mining, and we encourage researchers to develop text mining tools to provide insights on these questions.
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Defense Framework for VoIP Cloud
Ashutosh Satapathy* and L. M. Jenila Livingston
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[email protected], [email protected]
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The rapid progress of VoIP over traditional services is
led to a situation that is common to many innovations
and new technologies such as VoIP cloud and peer to
peer services like Skype, Google Hangout etc. VoIP is the
technology that supports sending voice (and video) over
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different than the public circuit-switched telephone net-
work. Circuit switching network allocates resources to
each individual call and path is permanent throughout
the call from start to end. Traditional telephony services
are provided by the protocols/components such as SS7, T
carriers, Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS), the Public
Switch Telephone Network (PSTN), dial up, local loops
and anything under International Telecommunication
Union. IP networks are based on packet switching and
each packet follows different path, has its own header and
is forwarded separately by routers. VoIP network can be
constructed in various ways by using both proprietary
protocols and protocols based on open standards.
1.1 VoIP Layer Architecture
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end platform (soft-phone, PBX, gateway, call manager),
back end platform (server, CPU, storage, memory, net-
work) and intermediate platforms such as VoIP protocols,
database, authentication server, web server, operating sys-
tems etc. It is mainly divided into five layers as shown in
Figure1.
1.2 VoIP Cloud Architecture
VoIP cloud is the framework for delivering telephony
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QI Plan Part One28QI Plan Part OneDavis .docx
1. QI Plan Part One
28
QI Plan Part One
Davis Healthcare Improvement
Davis Healthcare is a dedicated team of professionals to
providing efficient services and patient care delivering.
However, each healthcare service requires improvements in one
or more sectors to improve the quality of services rendered to
the patients. Therefore, focusing on each aspect of development
within the healthcare service, Davis Healthcare must make
amendments and specific improvements to particular sections of
its organization.
Among the required sectors of development include productivity
management. This section entails activities that ensure service
delivery to various patients and proper coordination with staff
to coordinate patient care. Different data collection tools and
analyses techniques and instruments must be used to have the
appropriate data required for analysis in this section, (Panesar,
Carson-Stevens, Salvilla, & Sheikh, 2014). Nice, but what is the
topic you will be talking about – HAC, HAI, handwashing, pt
identification, med errors? etc
Data Collection
2. Data collection is aimed at obtaining appropriate data and
information required to ensure that correct information is
managed within the organization's settings for proper analysis
and fact evaluation. The kind of data needed to monitor
improvements include data on specific statistics regarding
delivery of services, feedback from patients, recovery rates, as
well as patient care response.
Some of the tools that can be used in data collection include
surveys, questionnaires, and interviews. These collection
devices are used in gathering data from the field and various
respondents appropriately before indulging in analysis and
improvement process of the healthcare delivery sector
(Blischke, Karim, & Murthy, 2011).
Surveys are short questions issued to various persons with
specific answer sets and defined sets of questions. These studies
are aimed at targeted forms of responses within the community
and organization. The surveys are given out to respondents
across the field area, to achieve issue objectively where the
respondents can respond to the questions categorically.
· Surveys are easily formed as they are simple problems and can
be sent through emails or other forums to the various
respondents across the field of study.
· Informational content on the improvement of productivity
management is categorized into obvious questions that can
easily be understood by the different respondents within the
responses.
· The response fields have areas that can be expounded upon to
give more detailed information about a particular service or area
of study. According to surveys, information available on
specific areas of study and the challenges that each department
undertakes in productivity management can be recorded in the
3. survey answers.
· Some of the cons of using surveys include problems in
understanding questions asked to the various departments.
Moreover, categorizing each study to suit a particular
department and respondents is bulky, since studies require
specification in information for each department and
respondent.
· Another challenge in using surveys as a collection tool in data
collection is the fact that some respondents could be illiterate,
therefore the need for informants for each category in each
department.
Interviews are a series of questions that are orally presented to
different respondents in the field. These questions are aimed at
gaining insight into information of the various aspects regarding
productivity management and reviews. Interviews are effective
in that the respondents' responses can be analyzed based on the
emotional attachments and the facial expressions made of each
kind of reaction.
· Interviews are valid where unbiased information is required
for correct analysis and response.
· Interviews require a one-on-one engagement with the
particular respondent on the field. The respondents can
comprise of individuals like nurses, patients or other health
caregivers, as well as other staff members and the community as
a whole.
· The range of services offered is analyzed based on the
responses of the various individuals within the field research.
Interviews present some particular advantages over other
methods of data collection tools.
4. · Benefits include the ability to assess the facial expressions
and moods for the accuracy of information. Another advantage
of using interviews is the capacity to get information directly
from the respondent, in that the information is accurate and
correct based on the analysis of interviewer using responses
from different interviewees.
· Some of the cons of using interviews in collecting data include
the inability to reach every respondent; therefore the area of
cover is limited. Moreover, the range of persons to be
interviewed can be varying regarding language; therefore, the
language barrier can be a hindrance as far as interviews are
concerned.
Questionnaires are a set of questions that collect information
based on a set of issues sent to the various respondents to
respond to a series of open-ended or closed-ended questions as
designed by the analyst. These issues can then be mailed back
or emailed to the analyst from the respondents, therefore
allowing for analysis of the responses before making a
conclusive decision.
· Questionnaires are primarily used to collect information of
different users based on their experiences in productivity
management and handling of different information within the
healthcare facility.
· Productivity management can be improved based on the kinds
of requests made by the various respondents in the
questionnaires, thereby achieving an entirely working
environment for healthcare delivery within Davis Healthcare
facility.
Data Display, Measuring and Reporting
Surveys are used in obtaining information on different
5. healthcare delivery services, and on overall the feedback
information in the form of tabulated results and indexing of
performance reviews. These feedback forms and surveys
constitute the basis for analyzing the performance of Davis
Healthcare delivery of services, and virtually analysis of the
areas that require prompt improvements (Axinn & Pearce,
2006). This data can then be graphed and presented in a mode
that can easily be understood by the various stakeholders.
Questionnaires are also used in collecting confidential
information where respondent information is protected.
Therefore, anonymity is maintained, and the responses offered
are given in the form of protected views where respondents feel
free to give any feedback. This feedback is then tabulated based
on the kind of questions asked in the questionnaire forms, and
priority indexes gave to particular sections mostly highlighted
by most respondents. Such areas are to be given higher
priorities for improvements.
Interview responses can be recorded by the interviewer for
discretion or written down in a particular format for later
assessment and analysis. Mostly, interviews are used to collect
useful information regarding recurrent issues affecting most
populations, and their general views on the given subject. The
suggested improvements are indexed, and during the discussion
with the organization panel, the most requested changes or areas
affecting the individuals are accorded higher amendment
priorities.
Conclusion
These tools are interlinked in a way that each of the tools is
involved in data collection and analysis. In the three tools of
data collection and analysis, questions are included, which
engage both the respondents and the researcher. In the three
modes, the responses are made up of a particular format where
the information can be analyzed according to the information
6. provided during the research. Data collection tools are
essentially used in obtaining user information for analysis and
review of the main areas that require prompt improvements of
any given organization. Moreover, researchers use various tools
in collecting information, in a way that must be efficient and
cover most areas of the body.
Overall nice job, but way to general – need to relate the paper
to the specific topic you are going to address.
References
Axinn, W. G., & Pearce, L. D. (2006). Mixed method data
collection strategies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Blischke, W. R., Karim, M. R., & Murthy, D. N. (2011).
Warranty data collection and analysis. (Springer e-books.)
London: Springer-Verlag.
Panesar, S., Carson-Stevens, A., Salvilla, S., & Sheikh, A.
(2014). Patient Safety and Healthcare Improvement at a Glance.
Hoboken: Wiley.
Content
60 Percent
Points Available
60
Points Earned
40/60
Additional Comments:
Part 1: Data Collection Tools
· Explain data needed to monitor improvements.
· Explain at least three data collection tools you can use to
collect performance information.
· Explain the types of information each tool collects.
· Explain the strengths and weaknesses of each data collection
tool.
7. · Explain how the data collection tools are similar. Explain how
the data collection tools are different.
Part 2: Data Display, Measurement and Reporting –
· Identify at least two tools that measure and display the QI data
that can be gathered with the data collection tools identified in
Part 1.
· Explain the types of information each tool measures, displays,
and reports.
· Explain each measurement, display, and reporting tool's
strengths and weaknesses
· Explain how the measurement, display, and reporting tools are
similar and different from each other.
· Explain how the measurement, display, and reporting tools are
useful for health care organizations.
You could have expanded on data needed to monitor
improvements and how the collection tools were similar.
You needed to tell the reader – what the specific topic was
going to be: falls, med errors, pt identifction etc
Organization/Development
20 Percent
Points Available
20
Points Earned
15/20
Additional Comments:
· The paper is 1,050- to 1,400-words.
· The introduction provides sufficient background on the topic
and previews major points.
· The conclusion is logical, flows, and reviews the major points.
8. · A minimum of three references are included.
The intro did not preview the major points. Your conclusion
did not review the major points again, what is the topic?
Mechanics
20 Percent
Points Available
20
Points Earned
20/20
Additional Comments:
· The paper—including tables and graphs, headings, title page,
and reference page— is formatted according to APA
guidelines and meets requirements.
· Intellectual property is recognized with in-text citations and a
reference page.
· The paper effectively uses headings, font styles, and white
space.
· Rules of grammar, usage, and punctuation are followed;
spelling is correct.
All on point
Total Available
Total Earned
You had a nice start, you needed to expand on the data needed
and how the three were similar. You needed to tell the reader
what the topic was – specifically – falls, med errrors,pt
identification, HAI, HAC. Your were to broad in your paper.
Intro and conclusion should give the reader an over view of
what you will tell them, and what you told them respectively.
9. Again, nice start.
100
75
QI Plan Part Two
Understanding the market and customers is the best thing that
will help any business to improve its services and thus deliver
the best to its clients outstanding – it is an absolute truth. The
information from the market needs to be gathered on a regular
basis so as to ensure that the business is providing the necessary
service in the market (Graham, 2005). The same information
collected also is paramount in improving the management that
will aim at productivity in the whole business. This paper will
be address methods used in data collection and the improvement
that companies ought to make so as to attain productivity
management (Fitzsimmons, 2013). You should have talked
about your specific patient safety measures here
Improvement methodologies
The method that was researched is surveys, questionnaires, and
interviews. These methods promised lots of improvement in
management, such as to when to utilize and applied in the
organization (Baban, 2010). The main aim of each methodology
is to help management understand the market regarding the
many changes, customers' needs, and preferences (Fitzsimmons,
2013).
Surveys
Surveys are one of the best methods of gathering data and
information from people, and it has many purposes and can be
done in many ways be specific on your patient safety measure –
pick any one – suggestions: falls, infection, med error, pt
identification. There are several methods that survey's can be
done. Some methods are printed questionnaires, using the
10. telephone, emails, in person among other means (Stagg, 2011).
Survey is unique in that the information collected is done
through standardized methods so that every person interviewed
is asked the same questions in the same way (Organization.
2013). Some of the advantages of surveys include:
Significant representation: study normally involves a huge
number of people who take part in answering questions in the
survey and thus it provides the business with high
representation and thus the real picture of the market is
concluded (Dillman, 2011). Since a large population is
involved, the data collected depicts the overall characteristics
of the whole population and helps in improving the business as
the information gathered (Organization, 2013).
· Appropriate data collection: since survey involves other
techniques in collecting the data, it thus can be administered to
many people by any convenient method (Stagg, 2011).
· Statistical significance: survey method has high representation
and thus it is easier to find the relevant results since a
significant population is involved in data gathering. The other
thing also is that many variables can analyze well using the
survey (Dillman, 2011).
Survey methodology, on the other hand, has some weaknesses.
The most notable weaknesses are:
· Not suitable for controversial issues: in the study, questions
that have controversies may not be well tackled when using this
method since there is a problem of recalling the related
information to the same (Stagg, 2011).
· The possibility of inappropriate questions: since surveys
involve a standardized method of administering questions, the
researcher is forced to follow the format and in the process, the
11. required questions may not be framed well so as to get the
necessary data and information from the population (Dillman,
2011).
Questionnaires
Questionnaires are one of the most used methods of information
gathering, and it consists of questions and other necessary
prompts that are aimed at getting the feedback from many
people (Bulmer, 2014). Among other methods of gathering
information, a questionnaire is the cheapest and does not need a
lot of efforts since it standardized data that helps get the
required answers with ease (Dörnyei, 2009). A questionnaire is
the best method for gathering information that will be
paramount in improving management productivity for the
benefit of the business at large.
· Advantages of questionnaires include:
· Easy to analyze and thus helps in productivity management.
· It has a standard way of collecting information and thus
ensures that every detailed is obtained (Bulmer, 2014).
· Very applicable for gathering sensitive questions that the
management might be interested in making an informed decision
in the business.
· Respondents normally have time to internalize questions
before answering, and thus this ensures that information
gathered is relevant, and it is what the management need for
productivity in the business (Dillman, 2011).
Disadvantages
· Respondents may assume and ignore the questions, and thus
12. the required details are not collected (Bulmer, 2014).
· If the business is interested in investigative and complex
issues in the firm, then questionnaires are not the appropriate
method.
· Questions may appear more complicated and impersonal
(Organization, 2013).
· Interviews
· This method requires that the respondents are asked the
question directly (face-to-face) and thus is one of the best ways
of getting immediate feedback from the respondents (Rosner,
2013).
· Advantages
· Verbal and non-verbal cues are captured clearly, and thus
accurate information is gathered (Rosner, 2013).
· Interviews offer the correspondent an opportunity to express
his or her views in the language and way possible and most
comfortable to them.
· Interviews are important for the business as this will
determine what is needed (Fitzsimmons, 2013).
Disadvantages
· This method is costly regarding money and time and thus not
suitable for urgent information.
· Not accurate since manual data entry is used (Rosner, 2013).
The best methodology for the organization is the questionnaires.
13. The main reason I prefer this method is that it can be used in
collecting sensitive information in the market that is of
paramount in the decisions that the business ought to make to
better its operations. The other thing is that the data collected
using this methodology is easy to analyze, and this is important
in giving back the feedback from the field for the necessary
implementations to be made (Fitzsimmons, 2013).
Information technology
Technology has advanced and thus should be used well in the
business to acquire benefits and other added advantages
(Davies, 2015). Information technology application in business
includes:
· Communication: the company should benefit from the emails
in sending information since it is the fastest means and cheapest
of communicating. Productivity management can be enhanced
using such technologies in business so as to pass the
information either vertically or horizontally within the company
(Dillman, 2011).
· Storage: today there are CDs, external hard disks which can be
used to store relevant information in business and avoids loss of
the same. Critical information that can help managers improve
on their work can be stored in such devices.
Benchmarking
There are various ways in which the company may use to
measure its performance with other businesses (Codling, 2014).
· The first way or method is through competitive benchmarking
which carried out amongst the competitors, and proper data
analysis's done so as to ascertain what causes the other
competitors to be better than others (Dörnyei, 2009). This form
of benchmarking is easier because of the variables used are the
14. same as the companies being compared. The disadvantage of
this kind benchmarking is that it is more difficult because of the
competitive nature of complies although such differences may
be overcome when dealing with companies in geographically
distribution locations (Graham, 2005).
· Secondly, the company may choose to use internal
benchmarking in which benchmarking techniques are applied in
businesses that have many units. This form of benchmarking is
critical and most useful because it gives an organization the real
picture of its working and the areas that need to be attended to
so that all units are in one phase.
· Thirdly, process benchmarking can be used. The important
part of this approach is the distinction mainly in the processes
in different companies which is the main reason for the
difference in performance. The resulting gain from here are
used to correct the processes which are not performing well for
the purpose of making the companies more competitive and
compete favorably with other businesses (Codling, 2014).
· Lastly is the generic benchmarking where the technological
aspects, implementation and deployment technology considered
(Camp, 2013). The main aim here is to know how else the other
company does their work and by how much as per the rations.
Mission, Vision, Strategic, and Operational Plans
Performance and quality measures in the business are of great
important as this shows what the business does and aim to do in
the future. Mission, vision, strategic plans and operational plans
play a fundamental role in improving performance and quality
measures in the business (Camp, 2013). The primary incentive it
puts across is:
· The source of pressure: having a mission, vision, strategic
plans in the business are sound so as to put much pressure on
the management and employees to strive to achieve the same
15. and as the result, the general performance and quality in the
business are enhanced (Graham, 2005).
· Set direction: mission, vision, and plans in any organization
are the primary sources of the direction in the business. It helps
the company identify what they ought to achieve in a given
period and what measures need to be put in place so as to
achieve all the goals and objectives (Dillman, 2011).
· Establish responsibilities: having strategic plans in the
business bring order in how things are ought to be done and who
is responsible for doing the same. Having a strategic plan is
important when it comes to monitoring the general in the
organization.
Barriers
· Lack of proper and quality communication among the
managers and employees bring chaos.
· Lack of plans: if the business fails to plan then it is planning
to fail. The success of many businesses is attributed to proper
planning.
· Lack of positive focus: if the company fails in projecting
positively in its operations then success is hard since there will
be no motivations.
· Strategies to ensure successful implementation of strategies
· Assignment: for a successful implementation, there is a need
to assign people to different categories so as to be accountable
in case of any problem.
· Implement in stages: for complete implementation, there is a
need to do the whole implementation in phases and have a
16. deliverable in each stage. This will ensure that problems are
dealt with in early stages and avoid it moving to later stages.
· Being realistic: there is need to implement something that is
real and attainable in the organization. This will ensure that
whatever the business is planning will be achieved (Dörnyei,
2009).
In conclusion, productive management is one the most
contributing factor in the success of any business and there is a
need to invest more of improving it so that the firm benefits in
all its operation. A company need to spend the most on strategic
plans, operations and benchmarking to line the business with its
mission, vision, objectives, and goals. Technology has brought
many changes in business, and there is need to utilize such
advantages in business so as to realize significant benefits.
References
Baban, D. T. (2010). Improvement methodologies. Chelsea, MI:
MCS Media.
Bulmer, M. (2014). Questionnaires. London: Sage.
Camp, R. C. (2013). Benchmarking: the search for industry best
practices that lead to superior performance. Benchmarking: the
search for industry best practices that lead to superior
performance.
Codling, S. (2014). Benchmarking. Brookfield: Gower.
Davies, P. A. (2015). Information technology. New York:
Oxford University Press.
Dillman, D. A. (2011). Mail and Internet surveys: The tailored
design method--2007 Update with new Internet, visual, and
mixed-mode guide. John Wiley & Sons.
Dörnyei, Z. &. (2009). Questionnaires in second language
research: Construction, administration, and
processing. Routledge.
Fitzsimmons, J. &. (2013). Service management: Operations,
17. strategy, information technology. McGraw-Hill Higher
Education.
Graham, A. (2005). Airport benchmarking: a review of the
current situation. Benchmarking: an international journal.
Organization. W. H. (2013). Oral health surveys: basic
methods. World Health Organization.
Rosner, B. (2013). Interviews. New York: McGraw-Hil.
Stagg, N. (2011). Surveys. New York: Arno Press.
Content
60 Percent
Points Available
90
Points Earned
50/90
Additional Comments:
· Improvement Methodologies
· Analyze each methodology you researched. Explain the pros
and cons of each methodology for your chosen area of
improvement.
· Choose one of these methodologies for your organizational QI
plan and explain why you chose this methodology over others.
· Information Technology
· Analyze each information technology application you
researched.
· Analyze how these applications will be used to help improve
the area of improvement you have chosen.
· Benchmarking
· Analyze how benchmarks and milestones are involved in
managing the use of quality indicators.
18. · Analyze three potential benchmarks and milestones from
quality indicators that could be used for your plan.
· Mission, Vision, Strategic, and Operational Plans
· Analyze how performance and quality measures are aligned to
an organization's mission, vision, and strategic plan in general.
· Analyze how the measures are aligned with the mission,
vision, and strategic plan of an organization.
· Barriers
· Challenges
· Analyze barriers that can interfere with the implementation or
revision of quality measures.
· Successful Implementation
· Implementation
· Analyze strategies to ensure successful implementation of new
quality measures.
Nice start – all bullets met for improvement methodologies;
information technology; benchmarking; mission; barrier;
successes; however, you will need to select one topic such as
med errors and reference the topic to med errors throughout the
paper. Make sense?
Organization/Development
20 Percent
Points Available
19. 30
Points Earned
15/30
Additional Comments:
· The paper is 1,400- to 1,750-words.
· The introduction provides sufficient background on the topic
and previews major points.
· The conclusion is logical, flows, and reviews the major points.
· A minimum of three references are included.
Nice start, intro and conclusion should reference med errors for
your organizational development skills as identified by bullets
listed.
Mechanics
20 Percent
Points Available
30
Points Earned
10/30
Additional Comments:
· The paper—including tables and graphs, headings, title page,
and reference page— is formatted according to APA
guidelines and meets requirements.
· Intellectual property is recognized with in-text citations and a
reference page.
· The paper effectively uses headings, font styles, and white
space.
· Rules of grammar, usage, and punctuation are followed;
20. spelling is correct.
Mechanics and sentence structure needed some work. Review
in the library Center for writing excellence to review master
level writing skills
Total Available
Total Earned
Nice start on this paper. Please make sure when you finalize
the paper please make sure you reference a specific patient
topic such as med errors, or falls, or pt id, or wrong site
surgery, or infections. You need to continue to use the area of
improvement selected in all future assignments of the QI Plan
otherwise you will not pass this class. Again, nice start and you
earned 75 points.
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75
QI Plan Part Three
Davis Health Care’s Quality Improvement Plan
To be able to implement the quality improvement plan
effectively, the management of Davis Healthcare must be in a
position to make a detailed illustration of the critical steps to
act as a map that would guide the implementation team in
starting and coordinating the correct patient identificaiton
opportunity. This assignment will address areas of criteria and
tasks with regards to the authority, structure, and organization.
This paper will also address the communication, education,
monitoring, revising, regulation and accreditation that
associates with patient identification. Patient identification
should be treated with the seriousness it deserves because
21. failure to correctly identify patients may have far-reaching
consequences whereby a patient may undergo wrong procedures,
transfusion errors may occur, a patient may be given erroneous
medication, and testing errors may also occur among other
errors – stick with one topic – narrow it down. The above areas
will provide guidance in the implementation process so as to
reduce errors associated with the patient identity.
Criteria and Tasks
This section describes the authority structure and organization
of the implementation of the quality implementation plan. The
different roles of each group involved in the management and
running of a healthcare organization will be described. Every
professional project must have an implementation committee
whose role is to oversee the implementation of the program. As
is the case with most professional projects, this quality
improvement plan will be implemented by an implementing
committee. However, different bodies involved in the plan
within the healthcare organization will play different roles.
Board of directors: The board of directors has the responsibility
of ensuring quality of care for each patient. Equally, they are
responsible for making decisions regarding the implementation
structure and organization; communication, education;
monitoring and revising; and regulation and accreditation
patient identification Also, they provide oversight with regards
to plans and projects of the organization. How about the
oversight of the improvment plan – which one are you going to
use?
Executive leadership:The executive leadership alias with the
board to guide a culture of the organization aimed at
spearheading improvements in the organization. The executive
also directs the healthcare resources towards processes,
structures of the organization as well as resources to monitor
the healthcare systems, which in turn would ensure reduced
patient identification errors.
22. Quality improvement committee: The role of the quality
improvement committee is to monitor this quality improvement
plan, make observations on areas of improvements and report to
the board for action on quality issues. This committee also
makes recommendations to the executive board with regards to
the initiatives and policies aimed at improving the quality of the
patient identification program. Also, the committee ensures that
the best practices on patient identification, are "shared with the
staff" (Sadeghi, 2013) at the Davis healthcare organization.
Apparently, it is this committee that oversees the preparation of
every annual plan on quality improvement.
Medical staff: If patient identification is made incorrectly then
it is high probable that the medical staff will misdiagnose
illness, issue medication to the wrong patient, infant discharge
patients to the wrong persons, conduct wrong procedures among
other error. As such, medical staff plays a major role in
counterchecking the patient identification before starting any
procedure. As part of their involvement in the implementation
of the patient identification, they have a better understanding of
the importance of its success implementation in the
organization..
Middle management: As part of their involvement in this plan,
the role of the middle management is to reinforce the decisions
of the executive leadership in the implementation of the patient
identification plan.
Department staff: The role of the Department staff is to take
orders from the middle management with regards to the
implementation of the patient identification plan.
Communication
The quality improvement team will be tasked with the
responsibility of communicating the to quality performance
activity outcomes of the patient identification program to all
23. staff. In fact, the communication on quality improvement must
be made to the board of directors to executive leadership,
through the medical staff, to the middle management and finally
to the department staff. The communication team will also be
tasked with the responsibility of making updates on how the
patient identification program is being implemented.
The training activities regarding this program as well as the
improvement charting are among the important aspects of the
communication. The communication team will oversee the
collection of data, preparation of data report and can
communicate the improvement efforts through techniques such
as employee meetings, posters, emails, newsletters, memos,
meetings and verbal communications techniques. Nice!
Education
The importance of patient identification plan must be taught to
each member of staff if the "program is to be successfully
implemented and the full potential of the training be realized"
(Moore & Simendinger, 1999). To initially orient each staff
member to the plan, flow charts should be used to point out the
actual sequence of events in the patient identification process.
The use of the charts would help each staff to get a better
understanding of how the whole process happens. Once a
problem is identified, the trainer will have to use another chart
to show how the correct patient identification process should be
done. Process paced training is what this is referred as.
Under this training, every staff will come to understand that the
implementation of the patient identification plan will affect
their workflows in one way or another. However, after the
trainer takes them through the process, they will finally
understand new workflows. Role-based training is another
effective technique of educating the staff. Under this strategy,
the trainer would tailor the learning sessions based on the roles
of various employees of the organization as they involve in the
plan. Apparently, different staff will have different needs with
regards to this patient identification plan. So, in such cases, the
24. trainer will design the lessons on how best they will suit the
particular staff.
Using super user training technique can be a very effective way
to pass education on patient identification, to the employee.
Under this technique, the trainer will be forced to create a team
of super users. These are a few members of staff who have
quickly mastered the lessons and can move amongst the other
staff to share their tips to aid in better understanding of the
process.
Monitoring and Revising
After the implementation of the patient, identification plan has
been done; it has to undergo an annual evaluation process to
identify any inefficiencies or ineffectiveness so that appropriate
improvements are made accordingly. Apparently, the evaluation
committee will be tasked with the responsibility of conducting
an annual evaluation of the effectiveness of the plan so as to
reveal if the target goal has been achieved. The committee will
then recommend revisions to be made on the plan. Depending
on the reviews of the plan, the committee will set priorities and
identify opportunities for improvement in the next annual
evaluation. The review committee will then draft a report as a
summary of the review process, any findings, recommendations
to me made on the plan for that year. The report shall then be
submitted to the board for action.
Regulatory and Accreditation
External entities such as government agencies, professional
interest groups, and accreditation bodies, have had a huge
influence on the decision-making processes of healthcare
organizations. For instance, a health care organization cannot
offer certain services without the permission of government
agencies. It is in the same way that a healthcare organization
cannot offer services to community members unless it has
received accreditation from the accrediting bodies.
In other words, the decision-making processes of these bodies
25. and agencies are tied up with the policies of these bodies
because they are the standard setters for the interest of the
community and citizenry seeking healthcare services from them.
A government agency could revoke the operating license of any
healthcare organization if that organization violated any the set
laws of policies. For instance, FDA may revoke its approval of
the use of a particular drug if it is found out that the use of that
drug is harmful to the patients. "Accreditation bodies provide
services to healthcare organization" (Field, 2007), without
which the decision processes of those healthcare organizations
will dwindle. You will need to reference TJC or CMS or state
agency standards regarding patient identificaiton.
In conclusion, quality improvement plan is an important
function in every healthcare and therefore it is important for
healthcare management to adapt it for success of their
healthcare centres. The management of healthcare responsible
for quality improvement involves board of directors, executive
leaders, a committee selected to lead other leaders in quality
improvement, medical employees among others.
Communication is one of the factors that need to be considered
when implementing quality in healthcare centres because
without better communication skills there will be no quality
improvement. It is through communication that all those
involved in quality improvement will get information and
education, assessment and revision together with regulation and
certification of implementation of quality improvement of
healthcare centres.
1448 words
one day late
References
Field, R. I. (2007). Health care regulation in America:
Complexity, confrontation, and compromise. New York: Oxford
26. University Press.
Moore, T. F., & Simendinger, E. A. (1999). Hospital
turnarounds: Lessons in leadership. Washington, D.C: Beard
Books.
Sadeghi, S. (2013). Integrating quality and strategy in health
care organizations. Burlington, Mass: Jones & Bartlett
Learning.
Content
60 Percent
Points Available
90
Points Earned
80/90
Additional Comments:
· Criteria and Tasks
· Authority, structure, and organization
· Describe the authority structure of the plan's implementation.
This must describe who is responsible for implementing the
plan. Include a description of each role involved in the plan:
· Board of directors
· Executive leadership
· Quality improvement committee
· Medical staff
· Middle management
· Department staff
27. · Communication
· Identify who the performance activity outcomes are
communicated to and who does the communicating. This
describes who is responsible for overseeing data collection and
preparing data reports.
· Education
· Describe how staff will be educated regarding the plan. This
covers how each staff member will be initially oriented to the
plan and how each employee fits into the plan based on job
responsibilities.
· Monitoring and Revising
· Annual evaluation
· Analyze what elements of the plan are annually evaluated for
improvement.
· Analyze how to monitor the effect of changes implemented
from the decision-making process.
· Regulatory and Accreditation
· External entities
· Analyze the effect of external entities, such as governmental
agencies, accrediting bodies, and professional interest groups,
on the quality and performance measure of an organization's
decision-making processes.
Overall well written, however, you could have expanded on
accrediting bodies, and professional interest groups, - you could
28. have talked about the impact CMS and TJC have on your plan
related to the pt identificaiton
Organization/Development
20 Percent
Points Available
30
Points Earned
25/30
Additional Comments:
· The paper is 1,400- to 1,750-words.
· The introduction provides sufficient background on the topic
and previews major points.
· The conclusion is logical, flows, and reviews the major points.
· A minimum of three references are included.
nice organizational/development work – recommend you
introduce and conclude with pt identificaiton
Mechanics
20 Percent
Points Available
30
Points Earned
30/30
Additional Comments:
· The paper—including tables and graphs, headings, title page,
and reference page— is formatted according to APA
guidelines and meets requirements.
· Intellectual property is recognized with in-text citations and a
reference page.
· The paper effectively uses headings, font styles, and white
space.
29. · Rules of grammar, usage, and punctuation are followed;
spelling is correct.
You nailed the mechanics to include APA
Total Available
Total Earned
Very nice paper. I would have liked to see additional
information on TJC and CMS on pt safety standards You earned
120 points.
15
135-15late=120