Quality Improvement Project Report: University Name

This report presents a Quality Improvement Project aimed at enhancing healthcare services, specifically within a post-partum unit. The project addresses the issue of delayed patient discharges, primarily due to paediatric workload, and its adverse effects on mothers and newborns, including potential health risks and impacts on hospital resources and patient satisfaction. The project's purpose is to reduce the length of stay in the hospital, promote early discharge, and raise awareness about the importance of timely discharge for the health of mothers and infants. The target population includes mothers, newborns, elderly patients, children, healthcare professionals, and staff. The initiative highlights the benefits of improved healthcare practices, such as better physical and mental health for mothers and infants, increased hospital bed availability, and enhanced parenting skills. The project emphasizes the importance of interprofessional collaboration involving health information technology, business and health administration, doctors, nurses, patients, and management. Evaluation of the project will involve clinical assessments and HCAHPS data analysis. The conclusion emphasizes that timely patient discharge benefits both mothers and babies, improving healthcare quality and reducing postpartum complications. The report indicates no budget or funding is required for the project.

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Executive summary
Purpose of the quality improvement initiative
Quality improvement initiative is known to improve the health service for the people and
populations which result in desired health outcome and is reliable with the evidence based
practice. In post-partum unit, the major reason for delay is workload of paediatrics due to which
they are unable to for rounds in time. As an outcome it create huge havoc among patient
recipient (Dundon et al., 2016). There are many evidence available which highlight the health
risk to mother and child due to delay in discharge. The major health risk due to long stay in
hospital is related to feeling of inadequacy, parental grief and poor child mother relationship
(Goodwin et al., 2015). Further, as bed is limited in the hospital, the care recipient have to face
problem in staying at hospital. They have to spend night in small chair and some of the families
have other children which require their presence. Further as an impact, there is less number of
admission in hospital due less space due to which HCAHPS provide low score. Therefore, the
main purpose of the project is to take step to reduce the length of the stay of mother in hospital
units and promote early discharge. The projects also aims to create awareness about the impact
of long stay in the health of mother and child.
Target population
There are huge number of people who are at the health risk due to long discharge
procedure of the hospital especially the mother and new born babies. Beside them, elderly
patient, children and patient with ill health are also regarded as the risk group. Therefore, the
target population for the project will include mother, elderly people and children (Honeycutt et
al., 2018). However, the project is the concern for the health care professional, as they are the

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responsible body to improve the quality of the health care unit. Hence, the target population will
also include the health care staffs, nurses, health worker and general populations.
Benefit of the quality improvement initiative
It is evident from recent studies that, post-partum complication and psychological impact
is related with the delay of discharge of the mother and child. Hence, by improving the quality of
the health practice, it will have several benefits. On time discharge will promote the physical
health of the infant and mother as they will get much efficient care at home. There will be high
number of admission of other patient, availability of bed will be increase and also patient’s
recipient can be mentally calm. Additionally, it will also foster the development of the parenting
skills. It will decrease the incidence of nosocomial infection in child. Therefore, shortening of
time of discharge of mother and infant project will help to improve the working practice of
paediatrician.
Inter professional collaboration
In order to bring the project in action, there is requirement of inter-professional
collaboration to bring it in action. It requires involvement of health information and technology,
business administration, health administration, doctors, nurse, patients, management and health
stakeholders. The major reason for the including these in the project is for better implementation
of the project with authenticity and reliability (Reeves et al., 2017). The project will also give
priority to the health care professionals and nurses who can give effective suggestion and area of
quality improvement. The collaborative work of above mentioned professional help to
effectively communicate about the issue and specify the care plan and actions.

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Evaluation of the quality improvement initiative
Evaluation of project is needed to determine the efficiency of the project and its
continuation in future. Prior to undertake the project the positive and negative side of the project
will be examined by the health administration by carrying out the current assessment of the delay
in discharge. For the progress and evaluation of the benefit of the project, clinical assessment
will be carried out where the administration will survey the project about its progress towards
quality improvement Rossi, Lipsey & Henry, 2018). Additionally, the HCAHPs (hospital
consumer assessment of health care provider and system) will analyse the data prior and after the
implementation of the project (Lee et al., 2017).
Conclusion
Lastly, from the above discussion, it can be concluded “discharging patient on time will
benefit both mother and babies” will be effective in improving the health of the mother and
infant and will reduce the incidence of post-partum complication in cost friendly manner. The
project will not only improve the working condition of the health care setting but also play major
role of quality improvement in health care sector. The project will also help in improving the
healthy practice of the health care professional and incorporate healthy practice. Hence, there is
no budget and funding needed for this project.

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