Follow these guidelines when completing each component of the Collaboration Café. Contact your course faculty if you have questions. Include the following sections: Application of Course Knowledge: Answer all questions/criteria with explanations and detail. Reflect on your learning experience in this course. Which concepts stood out to you and made an impact? How do you envision using these … Read more
General Instructions Consider the quality measures data currently analyzed at your practice location. If you do not have a current practice location, select a local healthcare facility or provider to answer the questions below. Include the following sections: Application of Course Knowledge: Answer all questions/criteria with explanations and detail. As a nurse leader, what strategies can you … Read more
Consider the quality measures that are currently analyzed at your practice location. If you do not have a current practice location, select a local healthcare facility or provider to answer the questions below. Current practice: (Gracepoint Wellness Center )—Psych Include the following sections: Application of Course Knowledge: Answer all questions/criteria with explanations and detail. Describe one … Read more
As a nurse leader, you will be expected to communicate effectively with leaders and stakeholders at all levels in an organization in a variety of ways, depending on your purpose and your audience. Being able to deliver effective presentations is one important skill you will likely be called upon to use often.
As a nurse leader, you may be called upon to submit a detailed report to your executive leadership team and key stakeholders that describes a quality or safety problem and its effects on outcomes, fully supported by relevant and credible data.
As a nurse leader, you must be able to assess your organization’s ability to deliver safe, high-quality patient care. In so doing, you may be required to perform a gap analysis of a quality or safety issue as the first step in improving outcomes. Failure to meet benchmarks for safe and effective patient care … Read more
Health informatics, along with new and improved technologies and procedures, are at the core of all quality improvement initiatives. Data analysis begins with provider documentation, researched process improvement models, and recognized quality benchmarks. All of these items work together to improve patient outcomes. Professional nurses must be able to interpret and communicate dashboard information that … Read more
Too often, discussions about quality health care, care costs, and outcome measures take place in isolation—various groups talking among themselves about results and enhancements. Nurses are critical to the delivery of high-quality, efficient health care. As a result, they must develop their skills in reviewing and evaluating performance reports. They also need to be … Read more
Health care organizations strive to create a culture of safety. Despite technological advances, quality care initiatives, oversight, ongoing education and training, legislation, and regulations, medical errors continue to be made. Some are small and easily remedied with the patient unaware of the infraction. Others can be catastrophic and irreversible, altering the lives of patients … Read more
Quality failures have impacts that go beyond costs. Quality failures can erode an organization’s competitive advantage. Locate and post a news story from the last six months published in The Wall Street Journal or another reputable source about an internal or external quality failure. Briefly summarize the issue including what went wrong and whether it … Read more