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Healthcare Improvement Initiative

Veronica Horne

Southern New Hampshire University

February 6, 2022

IHP 604

Selection of Area of Improvement

St. Jude Children’s Research hospital’s area of improvement is the cancer services required for children with cancer. There needs to be efficacy in applying the services through information technology to reduce human errors. The public-facing data that will be utilized will include the Public Access Data Tables, which will show the information collected and analyzed from participants in the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study (CCSS).

Selection of Method of Improvement

The method adopted for improving cancer care is implementing and improving electronic order entry with a system to activate order sets (Dobrozsi et al., 2019). The plan would help notify the health providers in St. Jude of fever or related complications before the patient arrives on the hospital premises.

Selection of Framework to Use in Improvement Initiative

Program-wide interventions through process maps will be the utilized method of improvement for cancer care in children. There will be an initiation of a PDSA process in each affiliate program (Coury et al., 2017). Specifically, it will improve timely antibiotic administration for children with febrile neutropenia. Besides, it will also help cancer patients with sepsis.

Discuss your Selections

I selected the area of improvement because diagnosing cancer in a child or young adult is an emotionally overwhelming experience (Morgan et al., 2019). Therefore, the kind of care offered at St. Jude hospital must improve the child’s condition without risking health. The selected method of improvement will help the health practitioners determine the patients with additional complications such as Sepsis and those who require prompt administration of antibiotics. The chosen framework will enable the hospital to use rapid small-step change cycles to implement the intervention.

Report Sections

The report sections to be included in my course project to describe my healthcare quality improvement initiative will consist of the background information where I will identify background on the services offered at St. Jude, the state of cancer patient care, the implemented technologies, and other relevant information. The scope of the study section will describe the purpose and objective of the report. The literature review will provide research information on the issue. The methodology section will describe the application of the intervention. The conclusions and recommendations section will be the last segment of the report.

References

Coury, J., Schneider, J., Rivelli, J., Petrik, A., Seibel, E., & D’Agostini, B. et al. (2017). Applying the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) approach to a sizeable pragmatic study involving safety net clinics. BMC Health Services Research, 17(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-017-2364-3

Dobrozsi, S., Tomlinson, K., Chan, S., Belongia, M., Herda, C., & Maloney, K. et al. (2019). Education Milestones for Newly Diagnosed Pediatric, Adolescent, and Young Adult Cancer Patients: A Quality Improvement Initiative. Journal Of Pediatric Oncology Nursing, 36(2), 103-118. https://doi.org/10.1177/1043454218820906

Morgan, J., Deyo, J., Cox, J., Fasipe, F., Mohamed, A., & Russo, C. (2019). Quality Improvement Interventions across a Network of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Clinics. Pediatric Quality & Safety, 4(2), e149. https://doi.org/10.1097/pq9.0000000000000149

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IHP 604 Module Five Quality Improvement Plan Example

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Opportunities for Improvement

What are areas of concern or the opportunities for quality improvement initiatives to be implemented? What is the data or qualitative information that indicates there are problems?

Previously Addressed Concerns

Have these concerns been previously addressed in the past? What would indicate so? What is the impact of these previously addressed issues?

Quality Improvement Goals

What are the specific goals of a quality improvement plan that could address the opportunities for improvement?

Monitoring Progress

How will you monitor the progress of these goals? What is the follow-up schedule and benchmarks that would indicate improvements?

Additional Notes

What else should the quality team keep in mind if this improvement plan were to be put into action?

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Week 3 Short Paper

Veronica Horne

IHP 604

Southern New Hampshire University

January 23, 2022

Selection of Healthcare Organizations

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is world renowned, and has several locations within the United States. The first hospital was open im 1962 and one of it’s primary focuses was sickle cell disease and leukemia, as well as other cancers for pediatric patients. St. Jude’s is well known for the care and treatment of children, and ensuring that parents of patients are never billed for the servoces they provide. This also includes meals and housing for the families of patients during trestment. Within the first year of the hospital year of operation, more than thirty research projects have been instituted, with four completed (St. Jude, 2022).

Selection of Public Facing Data

Childhood cancer is something that no family wants to go through for their child, yet it happens all the same for far too many families. The Public Access Data Tables that will be used for this project will show the information collected and analyzed from the participants in the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study (CCSS). The information found within the tables will be organized by the type pf cancer, gender, age, years since diagnosis, age of diagnosis and what treatments were given. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital was chosen due tp the enormous amount of work and dedication put into increasing survival rates for pediatric cancer patients, and the amount of information available on their research, past and present.

References

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital (2022). Timeline: From Dream to Reality. Retrieved from https://www.stjude.org/about-st-jude/history/timeline.html?sc_icid=our-history-timeline

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital (2022). Public Access Data Tables. Retrieved from https://ccss.stjude.org/content/dam/en_US/shared/ccss/documents/data/data-bk-brief-symptom-inventory-18-basejb.pdf