30 Jan Example assignment:

Unit 1 discussion

DQ1 Technology for Patient Safety

Discuss a new or innovative technology from your professional nursing experience that enhances patient safety within the context of interprofessional care. The technology you select may be simple (a messaging system or electronic health records), to complex (use of robotics or lasers in surgery).

Identify and describe the technology.

Identify the interprofessional team members that use and depend on the technology.

Describe any challenges with implementation or integration of the technology.

How did the technology improve patient safety and quality?

If the technology you describe was not present, what would be the impact on patient care, patient safety and patient quality?

Describe any issues or opportunities with the use of this technology.

Response Guidelines

Respond to the post of at least one of your peers. In your response, please address at least one of the following. (Note: Your response should be a minimum of 75 words):

If you are familiar with the technology cited in a peer response, address the challenge they described. Do you agree or disagree with their perspective? Share your experience with the technology.

If you are not familiar with the technology cited in a peer response, ask substantive questions to learn more about it.

DQ2 Information Technology and Ethical Issues

Information system technology has made patient care safer and more reliable than ever before. Health care professionals now record their patients’ detailed medical history and are accustomed to checking treatment plans, lab results, medications, and other patient data. While this electronic archiving gives patients and caregivers easy access to critical health information, it also ushers in a host of legitimate concerns regarding patient privacy.

Identify an information system technology that enhanced quality in your organization, and discuss the related ethical issues that can arise. Select a technology with which you have had first-hand experience and about which you had ethical concerns. In your discussion, identify:

Why the technology was implemented or improved upon.

How was the interprofessional team involved in the discussion about ethical considerations before or during the implementation of the information system?

Discuss how patient privacy can be violated if protocols are not followed correctly.

What impact would these violations have on you, your colleagues, and your facility?

What specific actions do you take to assure patient privacy with information system use?

Response Guidelines

Respond to the post of at least one of your peers. In your response, please address at least one of the following. (Note: Your response should be a minimum of 75 words):

Describe your experience of using the technology that your peer has identified and address the ethical concern related to the technology that your peer selected. Do you agree or disagree? Why?

Comment on the actions taken by your peer to assure patient privacy. Were they sufficient? Suggest any additional concerns or solutions that your peer might consider.

Describe any ethical violation that occurred related to the technology your peer described. What happened? How could the violation have been avoided?

Resources

Discussion Participation Scoring Guide.

Unit 2 discussion

DQ1 Interprofessional Collaboration

Review the Vila Health: Adverse Event media piece. As you reflect upon the events that transpired, think about the ramifications of workarounds and how they affect the delivery of interprofessional, safe, quality care. In this discussion identify:

The conflicts between the interprofessional team members and their role in the event.

The different communication missteps that occurred.

Why the incident is an issue from the standpoints of technology and interprofessional care delivery.

Propose a strategy to avoid a similar incident in the future.

Response Guidelines

Respond to the post of at least one of your peers. In your response, please address at least one of the following. (Note: Your response should be a minimum of 75 words):

Compare and contrast your conclusions with those described by your peer. What additional strategies would you suggest?

If you have any knowledge or experience with quality improvement initiatives that have attempted to address similar problems, share any insights from those experiences.

DQ2 Interprofessional Team and Competing Ideologies

Changes in health care delivery in recent years have resulted in work environments that require increased collaboration between nurses and the interprofessional team. Often there are conflicts within and across teams for many reasons: competing ideologies and aims, inequalities in power relations, communication and role confusion, and overlap in duties. With the Vila Health: Adverse Event media piece in mind, respond to the following:

What are the underlying causes of problems in the interprofessional practice at Vila Health?

How should these issues be addressed for the benefit of both staff and patient?

Share any personal experience you have managing conflicts with interprofessional practice in your workplace.

Response Guidelines

Respond to the post of at least one of your peers. In your response, please address at least one of the following. (Note: Your response should be a minimum of 75 words):

Offer an alternative solution, or expand on your peer’s response regarding the Vila Health adverse event.

Comment on your peer’s personal experience with interprofessional conflict. Offer support or provide a different point of view.

Resources

Discussion Participation Scoring Guide.

Vila Health: Adverse Event | Transcript

Unit 3 discussion

Quality Improvement Through Data Surveillance

Reflect upon data use in your organization within the context of interprofessional care.

What elements in your organization’s dashboard relate to your work as a professional?

How does interprofessional care support quality improvement within the context of data use?

What changes would you like to see implemented to help the team better understand data use and data trends, as a quality and safety improvement tool?

Response Guidelines

Respond to the post of at least one of your peers. In your response, please address at least one of the following. (Note: Your response should be a minimum of 75 words):

If you are familiar with data your peer discussed, compare notes. Is data useful or does it pose challenges? Share your experience using data in your practice.

If you are unfamiliar with the interprofessional team’s data use your peer discussed, find out more. Why does it interest you? How would you apply it in your workplace or practice? Dig deeper as to the use or possible misuse of data in the context of interprofessional care delivery.

Resources

Discussion Participation Scoring Guide.

Unit 4 discussion

DQ1 Care Models for Quality Improvement Initiatives

Most organizations use a specific quality model for the development, implementation, and evaluation of processes. Please describe the model that is used in your organization and how interprofessional team members collaborate to effect positive patient care decisions by using this model. Include the following:

Identify the quality model and process used to effect change in your organization.

Give a specific example of a situation to demonstrate how interprofessional team members collaborate.

Where is there opportunity to improve interprofessional collaboration using the quality model and process, and why?

Would you change the use of the current model? If so, why?

Response Guidelines

Respond to the post of at least one of your peers by engaging in a dialogue about the model itself. In your response please address at least one of the following. (Note: Your responses should be substantive and at least 75 words).

How does this model and interprofessional team approach improve care quality and patient safety? On what do you agree, where do you disagree, and why?

Comment on your peer’s recommendations for improving the care model.

What other care models resonate with you? Why?

DQ2 New Quality Care Models

Research a quality model that is not currently used in your organization but that you find interesting. Think about the differences between the model that is used in your organization and the one you research for this discussion. For the discussion reflect upon:

The new model you have researched and what makes it intriguing to you from the standpoint of interprofessional care, quality improvement, and safe care delivery.

Compare and contrast interprofessional collaboration using the two models.

Which model would best enhance health care outcomes in your organization and why?

Response Guidelines

Respond to the post of at least one of your peers. In your response, please address at least one of the following. (Note: Your responses should be substantive and at least 75 words):

If you are familiar with the care model selected by your peer, start a dialogue about it and share your opinion. Ask challenging and though provoking questions about the model and its application in the workplace.

If you are unfamiliar with the care model selected by your peer, interview her or him about the model and its application in a dynamic and opportunity-filled health care environment. Ask challenging and thought provoking questions about the model and its application in the workplace.

Resources

Discussion Participation Scoring Guide.

Unit 5 discussion

DQ1 Organizational Care Goals for Interprofessionals

Reflect on the specific care goals in your organization. Think about how they are measured, monitored, and discussed with interprofessional team members. In addition, in your organization, how are goals to improve care chosen, and how do interprofessional team members collaborate in the setting, monitoring, and achievement of goals? For this discussion:

Identify specific care goals in your organization.

What guidelines does the organization follow to determine and measure patient outcomes and care goals?

How do interprofessional team members participate and collaborate in the setting, monitoring, and achievement of patient goals?

How do interprofessional team members effect change in the organization within the context of a specific outcome measure?

Response Guidelines

Respond to the post of at least one of your peers. In your response, please address at least one of the following. (Note: Your responses should be substantive and at least 75 words):

If you are familiar with the patient outcome measure selected by your peer, start a dialogue about it and share your experience. How is it helpful to your practice and interprofessional team care? Have you encountered any challenges?

If you are unfamiliar with the outcome measure selected by your peer, interview her or him about its use and application. Is it helpful to his or her practice? Are there any challenges? Ask thought provoking questions about the use of outcome measures and the applications in the workplace.

DQ2 Quality Indicators

For this discussion, review the following two resources from this unit’s Studies section:

Core Measures.

National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators.

As you know, quality indicators are common measures that apply to most patients or disease-specific measures that convey the quality of clinical care for patients with specific diagnoses. Using standard quality indicators to measure and report outcomes helps ensure that medical facilities are providing safe, effective, patient-centered care. We use both qualitative and quantitative data to explore our success with health care delivery and outcome measures. Interprofessional teams need to use this information to define, develop, and implement quality processes.

In this discussion, describe the quality indicators and specific data types used in your organization:

Define quality outcomes in your organization.

What have you learned from the specific quality indicators about your nursing practice and your role on an interprofessional team?

How have quality indicators helped you identify areas for improvement as a provider and team member?

Describe a decision you made based on quality indicators and how this affected the interprofessional team as a support system.

Response Guidelines

Respond to the post of at least one of your peers. In your response, please address at least one of the following. (Note: Your response should be substantive and a minimum of 75 words):

If you are familiar with the quality indicators and data measures your peer discussed, compare notes. Are the outcomes useful in your practice? Share your experience. Ask meaningful questions to advance your knowledge.

If you are unfamiliar with the quality indicator or data measures your peer discussed, find out more. Why does it interest you? Would this quality indicator benefit your practice? Ask meaningful questions about the tool to advance your knowledge.

Resources

Discussion Participation Scoring Guide.

The National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators.

Core Measures.

Unit 6 discussion

Staffing Ratios

This discussion will be based on two readings from this unit’s Studies section:

Associations Between Characteristics of the Nurse Work Environment and Five Nurse-Sensitive Patient Outcomes in Hospitals: A Systematic Review of Literature.

The American Nurses Association Web site section, Nurse Staffing.

In both readings, the issue of staff-to-patient ratio is explored. Staffing is a problem that encompasses patient safety, cost effectiveness, and work-life quality. In this discussion, comment on the following:

Discuss the minimum nurse-to-patient ratio where you practice. How do you reconcile staffing levels and patient outcomes with financial constraints of most health care facilities?

How do staffing patterns impact patient care beyond the issues mentioned here?

If you live in a state with nurse staffing laws, in what ways do these laws benefit nurses and patients?

Response Guidelines

Respond to the post of at least one of your peers. In your response, please address at least one of the following. (Note: Your response should be substantive and a minimum of 75 words):

If you do not practice in a state with nurse staffing laws, start a dialogue with a peer who does. Ask substantive questions about the laws’ effects on patient safety and quality of care.

If you practice in a state with nurse staffing laws, start a dialogue with a peer who does not. Ask substantive questions about any programs or initiatives that are currently in place to address patient safety and quality of care. Are they effective? What works? What does not?

Resources

Discussion Participation Scoring Guide.

Nurse Staffing.

Associations Between Characteristics of the Nurse Work Environment and Five Nurse-Sensitive Patient Outcomes in Hospitals: A Systematic Review of Literature.

Unit 7 discussion

DQ1 Accountability in the Workplace

We are all responsible for quality—health care leadership, providers, volunteers, and yes, even patients and their families. An organization with high standards and a reputation for delivering quality patient care will inevitably have a culture that demands both professional and personal accountability. Failing to meet standards of care is detrimental to patient safety. The resulting repercussions may cause harm that reaches well beyond the individual to staff, management, and regulatory agencies.

In this discussion, describe a time when you witnessed another person on the interprofessional team not being accountable.

What were the effects?

What ethical course of action should have been initiated?

How did the facility respond?

How can the patient and the organization partner to develop safer care?

Response Guidelines

Respond to the post of at least one of your peers. In your response, please address at least one of the following. (Note: Your response should be substantive and a minimum of 75 words):

What actions has your employer taken, or would take under similar circumstances?

What is the best way to respond to a team member you feel is not being accountable?

What can be done to prevent the same or similar events in the future?

DQ2 Quality Improvement Initiative Proposal Draft

In Unit 9 you will submit your final assignment, the Data Analysis and Quality Improvement Initiative Proposal. For this discussion, please post a draft outline of your proposal. This is an opportunity for you to get feedback on your assignment and make improvements.

Refer to the Data Analysis and Quality Improvement Initiative Proposal assignment description and scoring guide as you develop your draft, to ensure that you will be able to meet all the requirements of the assignment.

Response Guidelines

Respond to at least one of your peers and provide substantial feedback on their outline. Please try to respond to a peer who has not yet received a response to their post, and include the following in your comments:

Is the outline structured to enable your peer to meet each grading criterion in the Data Analysis and Quality Improvement Initiative Proposal scoring guide?

Point out areas of the outline that you feel are particularly strong and areas that may require more attention.

Provide at least one constructive suggestion that you feel would make your peer’s submission more effective.

Resources

Discussion Participation Scoring Guide.

Unit 8 discussion

DQ1 Enhanced Collaboration in the Workplace

Good communication between nurses, patients, and the interprofessional team is essential to patient safety and quality of care. Proponents of interprofessional collaborations encourage enhanced collaboration, where each professional’s contribution is valued equally. Discuss the benefits and challenges of this concept in your workplace.

How does this affect patient care and patient handoff?

What are some effective strategies for improving interdisciplinary communications?

Response Guidelines

Respond to the post of at least one of your peers. What specific challenges have you experienced with interprofessional communication? How did you address these issues in your work environment? (Note: Your response should be substantive and a minimum of 75 words).

DQ2 Effective Communication Modalities

Provide an example of a time when a problem arose because of ineffective communication and how SBAR, ICS, SOAP, CUS, or another communication modality would have prevented it from occurring. You may select a miscommunication that occurred within the nursing staff or between the nursing staff and the interprofessional team.

Describe any limitations with the communication model you selected.

How do you manage patient confidentiality with the selected modality?

What communication models do you use that are unique to your specialization?

How effective are they? How do they improve quality of care and patient safety?

Response Guidelines

Respond to the post of at least one of your peers. (Note: Your response should be substantive and a minimum of 75 words):

If you are familiar with the communication tool or modality described by your ;peer, start a dialogue. Share your experience and discuss the benefits and challenges.

If you are unfamiliar with the communication tool or modality described by your peer, find out more. Ask about the benefits and challenges.

Resources

Discussion Participation Scoring Guide.

Unit 9 discussion

Leadership Qualities

For this discussion, share a time when you or a colleague demonstrated leadership qualities that enhanced patient safety and quality of care. Address the following in your initial post:

How can a staff nurse demonstrate leadership in matters of quality improvement?

What did you or a colleague do that demonstrated leadership? How was the action received by others?

Outline the steps a leader might utilize to promote accountability in the reporting of errors in a non-punitive and quality enhancing manner.

Response Guidelines

Respond to the post of at least one of your peers. In your response, please address the following. (Note: Your response should be substantive and a minimum of 75 words):

How can you promote an environment that is not punitive regarding the reporting of errors in highly accountable organizations?

Resources

Discussion Participation Scoring Guide.

Unit 10 discussion

DQ1 Work-Life Quality for Interprofessional Teams

Nursing is a high stress, high demand profession. Many nurses and other health care professionals suffer from job burnout and have valid concerns about workplace safety, inadequate pay, and lack of support from management.

In health care organizations committed to improving work-life quality, everyone wins. Employees are productive and patient safety improves. A content, productive health care worker is healthier, less stressed, and less likely to make costly mistakes.

In this discussion, propose a work-life quality program idea for an interprofessional team you are currently (or have previously been) a part of. Focus on one idea that would help improve the work-life quality of the entire interprofessional team. Be brief, be creative, and do not be afraid to think “outside the box.”

Response Guidelines

Respond to the post of at least one of your peers. In your response address the following:

Reflect on the strong points of your peer’s idea.

Provide any constructive suggestions for how the proposed program idea could improved, or be made potentially more effective.

DQ 2 Course Reflection

For this discussion, please reflect on your experiences and learning throughout this course. Respond to the following:

What have you learned that you found interesting?

What will be the most professionally useful going forward?

How do you envision applying aspects of this course work in your practice?

In what area (or areas) of the course would you have liked to see more content or instruction? How would this have contributed to your learning?

Response Guidelines

Review the responses of your peers and respond to at least two of them. In your response, address one or more of the following:

How was your overall course experience similar or different?

How similar or different are your plans to apply the learning to your practice?

Resources

Discussion Participation Scoring Guide.

Unit 03 Assignment 1

Adverse Event or Near Miss Analysis

Professional Context

Health care organizations strive for a culture of safety. Yet despite technological advances, quality care initiatives, oversight, ongoing education and training, laws, legislation and regulations, medical errors continue to occur. Some are small and easily remedied with the patient unaware of the infraction. Others can be catastrophic and irreversible, altering the lives of patients and their caregivers and unleashing massive reforms and costly litigation.

Historically, medical errors were reported and analyzed in hindsight. Today, quality improvement initiatives attempt to be proactive, which contributes to the amount of attention paid to adverse events and near misses. Backed up by new technologies and reporting metrics, adverse events and near misses can provide insight into potential ways to improve care delivery and ensure patient safety.

For clarification, the National Quality Forum (2009) defines the following:

Adverse event: An event that results in unintended harm to the patient by an act of commission or omission rather than by the underlying disease or condition of the patient.

Near miss: An event or a situation that did not produce patient harm, but only because of intervening factors, such as patient health or timely intervention.

The goal of this assignment is to focus on a specific event in a health care setting that impacts patient safety and related organizational vulnerabilities and to propose a QI initiative to prevent future incidents.

Reference

National Quality Forum. (2009). NQF Patient safety terms and definitions. Retrieved from http://www.qualityforum.org/Topics/Safety_Definitions.aspx

Instructions

Prepare a comprehensive analysis on an adverse event or near miss from your professional nursing experience that you or a peer experienced.

Research the impact of the same type of adverse event or near miss in other facilities. Evaluate how it was managed, who was involved, and how it was resolved. How have other institutions integrated solutions that prevent these types of events?

Examine what kind of interprofessional communication could have prevented this event.

Integrate research and data on the event, and use it as a basis to propose a QI initiative in your current organization.

The bullet points below correspond to grading criteria in the scoring guide. Be sure that your analysis addresses all of the bullets below. You may also want to read the Adverse Event or Near Miss Analysis Scoring Guide to better understand the performance levels that relate to each grading criterion. Additionally, be sure to review the Guiding Questions: Adverse Event or Near Miss Analysis document, linked in the resources, for additional clarification about things to consider when creating your assignment.

Analyze the missed steps or protocol deviations related to an adverse event or near miss.

Analyze the implications of the adverse event or near miss for all stakeholders.

Evaluate quality improvement technologies related to the event that are required to reduce risk and increase patient safety.

Incorporate relevant metrics of the adverse event or near miss incident to support need for improvement.

Outline a quality improvement initiative to prevent a future adverse event or near miss.

Communicate analysis and proposed initiative in a professional and effective manner, writing content clearly and logically with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and spelling.

Integrate relevant sources to support arguments, correctly formatting citations and references using current APA style.

Example assignment: You may use the Adverse Event or Near Miss Analysis Example, linked in the Resources, to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like.

Submission Requirements

Length of submission: A minimum of five but no more than seven double-spaced, typed pages.

Number of references: Cite a minimum of three sources (no older than seven years, unless a seminal work) of scholarly or professional evidence to support your evaluation, recommendations, and plans.

APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style.

Turnitin: It is suggested, but not required, that you submit your paper to Turnitin before you submit it for grading. Turnitin will help ensure that you have used resources ethically and effectively. Use the link located in the Resources for more information and to view job aids for using Turnitin.

Resources

Adverse Event or Near Miss Analysis Scoring Guide.

WebM&M Cases & Commentaries.

TurnItIn.

Guiding Questions: Adverse Event or Near Miss Analysis [DOC].

APA Module.

Adverse Event or Near Miss Analysis Example.

Unit 06 Assignment 1

Quality Improvement Initiative Evaluation

Professional Context

Too often, discussions about quality health care, care costs, and outcome measures take place in isolation—each group talking among themselves about results and enhancements. Because nurses are critical to the delivery of high-quality, efficient health care, it is essential that they develop the proficiency to review, evaluate performance reports, and be able to effectively communicate outcome measures related to quality initiatives. The nursing staff’s perspective and the need to collaborate on quality care initiatives are fundamental to patient safety and positive institutional health care outcomes.

Instructions

You have been asked to prepare and deliver an analysis of an existing quality improvement initiative at your workplace. The QI initiative you choose to analyze should be related to a specific disease, condition, or public health issue of personal or professional interest to you. The purpose of the report is to assess whether or not specific quality indicators point to improved patient safety, quality of care, cost and efficiency goals, and other desired metrics. Your target audience is nurses and other health professionals with specializations or interest in your chosen condition, disease, or public health issue.

In your report you will:

Define the disease.

Analyze how the condition is managed.

Identify the core performance measurements related to successful treatment or management of the condition.

Evaluate the impact of the quality indicators on the health care facility.

Be sure to address the bullet points below in your analysis, as they correspond to grading criteria in the scoring guide. You may also want to read the Quality Improvement Initiative Evaluation Scoring Guide to better understand the performance levels that relate to each grading criterion. Additionally, be sure to review the Guiding Questions: Quality Improvement Initiative Evaluation document, linked in the resources, for additional clarification about things to consider when creating your assignment.

Analyze a current quality improvement initiative in a health care setting

Evaluate the success of a current quality improvement initiative through recognized benchmarks and outcome measures.

Incorporate interprofessional perspectives related to initiative functionality and outcomes.

Recommend additional indicators and protocols to improve and expand outcomes of a quality initiative.

Communicate evaluation and analysis in a professional and effective manner, writing content clearly and logically with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and spelling.

Integrate relevant sources to support arguments, correctly formatting citations and references using current APA style.

Example assignment: You may use the Quality Improvement Initiative Evaluation Example, linked in the Resources, to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like.

Submission Requirements

Length of submission: A minimum of five but no more than seven double-spaced, typed pages.

Number of references: Cite a minimum of four sources (no older than seven years, unless a seminal work) of scholarly or professional evidence to support your interpretation and analysis.

APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style.

Turnitin: It is suggested, but not required, that you submit your paper to Turnitin before you submit it for grading. Turnitin will help ensure that you have used resources ethically and effectively. Use the link located in the Resources for more information and to view job aids for using Turnitin.

Resources

Quality Improvement Initiative Evaluation Scoring Guide.

APA Module.

Guiding Questions: Quality Improvement Initiative Evaluation [DOC].

TurnItIn.

Quality Improvement Initiative Evaluation Example.

Unit 09 Assignment 1

Data Analysis and Quality Improvement Initiative Proposal

Professional Context

“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.

Reference

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. (2013). Preventing falls in hospitals. Retrieved from https://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/systems/hospital/fallpxtoolkit/fallpxtk5.html#tiptop

Instructions

In this assignment, you will propose a quality improvement 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 a hospital setting, contact the quality management department to obtain the data you need.

You will need to identify basic information about the health care setting, size, and specific type of care delivery related to the topic that you identify. You are expected to abide by standards for compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

Option 2

If you do not have access to a dashboard or metrics related to a QI initiative proposal:

You may use the hospital data set provided in the Vila Health: Data Analysis presentation to identify a health care issue or area of concern.

You will follow the same instructions and provide the same deliverables as your peers who select Option 1.

The bullet points below correspond to grading criteria in the scoring guide. Be sure that your proposal is, at minimum, addressing each of the bullets. You may also want to read the Data Analysis and Quality Improvement Initiative Proposal Scoring Guide to better understand the performance levels that relate to each grading criterion. Additionally, be sure to review the Guiding Questions: Data Analysis and Quality Improvement Proposal document, linked in the resources, for additional clarification about things to consider when creating your assignment.

Analyze data to identify a health care issue or area of concern.

Outline a QI initiative proposal based on a selected health issue and supporting data analysis.

Integrate interprofessional perspectives to lead quality improvements in patient safety, cost effectiveness, and work-life quality.

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.

Integrate relevant sources to support arguments, correctly formatting citations and references using current APA style.

Example assignment: You may use the Data Analysis and Quality Improvement Initiative Proposal Example, linked in the Resources, to give you an idea of what a Proficient or higher rating on the scoring guide would look like.

Submission Requirements

Length of submission: 8-10 double-spaced, typed pages, not including title and reference page.

Number of references: Cite a minimum of five sources (no older than seven years, unless a seminal work) of scholarly or professional evidence to support your evaluation, recommendations, and plans.

APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style.

Turnitin: It is suggested, but not required, that you submit your paper to Turnitin before you submit it for grading. Turnitin will help ensure that you have used resources ethically and effectively. Use the link located in the Resources for more information and to view job aids for using Turnitin.