Assessment 3: Improvement Plan In-Service Presentation Details

This presentation focuses on educational in-services for quality improvement (QI) in healthcare, specifically targeting nurses. It outlines the purpose and goals of in-service sessions, emphasizing their role in enhancing clinical decision-making, skills, and patient safety. The presentation details the need for and process of improving safety outcomes related to specific organizational issues, including strategies like continuous quality analysis and root-cause analysis. It also highlights the audience's role in the success of the improvement plan and suggests activities to encourage skill development. Furthermore, it discusses the importance of demonstrating proficiency through these in-service trainings, listing key competencies for instructors and nurse executives, and provides relevant references to support the information. This presentation aims to equip nurses with the knowledge and strategies to improve their practice and contribute to enhanced patient care and safety.

Educational in-services for quality
improvement (QI)
E D U C AT I O N A L I N - S E RV I C E S O R T RA I N I N G T O S TA F F P E RTA I N I N G T O
Q U A L I T Y I M P R OV E M E N T ( Q I ) M E A S U R E S O F S A F E T Y I M P R OV E M E N T
I N T E RV E N T I O N S .

Educational in-services or training to staff
pertaining to quality improvement (QI)
measures of safety improvement
interventions.
In service session provides the nurses with proper educational
trainings that will improve their practice and facilitate the delivery of
an enhanced care that will ultimately lead to an effective outcome.
In service sessions, thus, aims to provide the nursing professionals
with educational kit that will improve their professionalism and
support their professional development by enabling them
demonstrate competence.

Purpose and goals of an in-service
session for nurses.
Encourage them in making proper clinical decisions.
Enhances skills and expertise among nurses.
Ensures that the nurses practice in the clinical settings by following evidence
based strategies.
Enhances patient’s safety.
Support professional development among nurses.
Increases patient outcome.
Enhances nursing practice.
Increases competence among nurses.

The need and process to improve safety
outcomes related to a specific
organizational issue.
Safety improvement is considered to be an Quality improvement process which
involves systematic and data-guided activities intended to bring about
immediate development in health care delivery in specific clinical settings.
The following strategies can be employed to bring about improvement in safety
outcomes are:
Continuous quality analysis.
Quality improvement training for nursing staffs.
Root-cause analysis
Failure Modes and Effects Analysis

Audience's role in and importance of
making the improvement plan successful.
Implement the strategies discussed over the session to enhance their practice.
Implement the strategies to reduce the risk of common errors.
Implement the strategies to enhance quality of the care delivery.
Enhance their ability to identify potential risk factors and remove them.
Involving audience is important to make an impact.

Create resources or activities to encourage skill
development and process understanding related
to a safety improvement initiative.
Activities and resources to encourage skill development and process
understanding related to a safety improvement initiative are:
Brochure containing information.
Booklets and posters.
Questionnaires for survey.
Collecting feedbacks.
Providing training materials.
Providing journals and articles.

Demonstration of Proficiency
In-service trainings also provide nurses the opportunity to demonstrate their
proficiency. Each instructor or nurse executive must posses the following key
competencies.
Competency- 1 Communication and relationship-building.
Competency- 4 Professionalism.
Competency- 5 Business skills.

References
American Organization of Nurse Executives. (2005). AONE nurse executive
competencies. Nurse Leader, 3(1), 15-21.
CHAGHARI, M., SAFFARI, M., EBADI, A., & AMERYOUN, A. (2017). Empowering
education: A new model for in-service training of nursing staff. Journal of Advances in
Medical Education & Professionalism, 5(1), 26.
Hughes, R. (Ed.). (2008). Patient safety and quality: An evidence-based handbook for
nurses (Vol. 3). Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Jamshidi, N., Molazem, Z., Sharif, F., Torabizadeh, C., & Najafi Kalyani, M. (2016). The
challenges of nursing students in the clinical learning environment: A qualitative
study. The Scientific World Journal, 2016.