Unit 3 – Beyond Policy: Why Healthcare is Always Changing
Nursing Research and QI Project (Exam Grade)
The purpose of this project is to experience a quality improvement process and to aid in meeting the following unit objectives
• Describe ways to use evidence based practice when providing patient care
• Relate the need for evidence in nursing practice
• Discuss the practical nurse’s role in health care quality
• Recognize how quality improvement impacts patient care
• Research sources of evidence based nursing practice
Identifying an Area for Improvement
Think about an area of nursing that you feel could be improved based on your readings, clinical experiences, or work experiences. Then identify one specific area of improvement for your project. Also, as you brainstorm consider the following:
1. What are you trying to accomplish?
2. How will you know that a change is an improvement?
3. What changes can be made that would result in improvement?
Identified Problem:
Setting an Aim
Once the improvement area has been determined, write your aim statement. Ask yourself, “What am I trying to accomplish”?
AIM Statement:
Problem Validation
Find data and information to validate your identified problem. You need to find at least one article from a reputable source that supports your problem.
Supportive Data:
Establishing Measures
How will you know that your changes were an improvement? What data would you want to collect to see if your project yielded improvements? This data could be compared to your supportive data to help determine improvement.
Measures:
Selecting Changes
What things can you do to make those changes happen? In other words, what interventions need to occur to institute a change? Prioritize the change ideas to work on first; i.e. changes that are easiest to implement and will have the largest benefits. Include rationale for selected change ideas. (Rationale should be evidence-based, current, and from a reputable source.)
Change Ideas with Rationale:
QI Presentation Guidelines
Presentations may be of any format; Power Point, poster, YouTube video, informational brochure, or any other format if approved by instructor.
The following must be included in your presentation (Project Criteria)
• The identified problem
• The Aim statement
• Problem validation information
• The established measure(s)
• Change ideas with rationale
The goal of the presentation is to share your “story” clearly and succinctly in a manner that flows well together.
Refer to the rubric below to see how the QI presentation will be evaluated. Remember, we are all striving to become professional practical nurses!
Grading Rubric
Exceptional – 20 points Average – 15 points Below Average – 5 points Poor – 0 points
Organization Information is presented in logical and interesting sequence Information is presented in logical sequence most of the time Presentation is difficult to follow more than half of the time Entire presentation is difficult to follow
Knowledge Demonstrates knowledge with explanations and elaboration. Demonstrates knowledge but not full explanations No full explanations, knowledge is not demonstrated more than half of the time Adequate knowledge is not demonstrated or explained
Content
• Problem
• Aim
• Validation
• Measures
• Change Ideas All five criterion are addressed in presentation. Four criterion are addressed in presentation. Three criterion are addressed in presentation. Two or less criterion are addressed in presentation
Mechanics Presentation has no misspellings or grammatical errors. Presentation has very few misspellings and/or grammatical errors. Presentation has multiple misspellings and/or grammatical errors. Presentation has so many misspellings and/or grammatical errors that it is illegible
Sources/Citations
• Problem
• Interventions and rationale At least 2 reputable sources are used and are cited correctly in APA format 2 sources are used but reliability or 1 source is questionable or citations are incorrectly formatted 1 source is used or reliability of both sources is questionable; no citations present No sources are used or cited