Quality Improvement Plan

In today’s ever-competitive healthcare market, patient safety, and quality of care is one of the top factors of an organizations survival. Quality improvement (QI) and safety have become a major component of our larger healthcare organization, because they value our patients, employees, and families, but why are we not following in their footsteps? A particular new idea that would be useful in a smaller unit is an action board, which allows anyone to write down a particular quality or safety problem (Steelman, 2014). In addition, the use of Situation, Background, Assessment, and Recommendation (SBAR), which can assist with identifying the problem, examining evidence, and determining if a solution will be applied in order to improve communication handoff (Eberhardt, 2014). Both of these solutions are cost effective, and would not take very much training to implement on the units and throughout the organization.
In addition, The Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) is a quality improvement tool, that can be utilized to plan and evaluate the proposed changes for improving …show more content…
The department can encourage their nursing and healthcare staff to utilize Kanter’s model of workplace empowerment to accomplish our communication handoff project though: allowing them access to information, access to support, access to resources necessary to complete the task, and access to opportunities to learn and grow from errors and mistakes (Laschinger, Read, Wilk, & Finegan, 2014). One of the many benefits of working together in a team with other health care professional is that individuals can become more secure in their own professional role, because they can acknowledge the competence of the other members and can contribute their own expert knowledge (Duner,