Quality Improvement Project: Analysis and Recommendations

This report focuses on a quality improvement (QI) project within a healthcare context, emphasizing the systematic approach to analyze performance and enhance outcomes. It outlines key steps such as establishing a quality culture, identifying improvement areas, data collection and analysis, communication of results, ongoing evaluation, and sharing project successes. The project's core revolves around patient safety, specifically addressing patient falls in healthcare centers and the role of nursing dashboards. The report highlights the importance of assessing risk factors, studying QI and nursing research, and using data to inform decisions. References to relevant literature are included to support the project's methodologies and findings. The goal is to provide insights into how QI processes can improve healthcare quality and patient outcomes.

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Opportunities of quality improvement project
Quality improves refers to systematic as well as formal approach for analyzing the
performance as well as the efforts for improving performance. There are different approaches
that helps to analyze the data as well as test the changes in the project (Brandrud et al., 2017).
For completing the project, reputable QI model is to be chosen using the processes of QI and
Practices of QI in the project.
Some Quality improvement basics are to be followed in QI improvement projects.
1. Establishing a quality culture in the project: The processes and the processes carried
out in the project are to be integrated for determining the quality improvement in project. The
project practice culture, the attributes, actions and behaviors of the project reflects the practice
that is being undertaken in project to embrace the quality of project (Ovretveit et al., 2017). The
culture of QI are different from more project practice and includes establishing the QI teams and
hold regular meeting for improving QI of the project.
2. Determining as well as prioritizing the potential area for improving the project: The
different ways for identifying as well as understanding different ways in the project practice to
improve the project. Examining the population of patient and the operations practice are to be
analyzed in the project. Proper quality measures for improving the quality of the project are to be
included in the project.
3. Collecting as well as analyzing the data: The collection of data and the analysis of data
is the main feature of improving the quality of the project. The data in the project will help to
understand the system and the working process of the system (Antonacci et al., 2018). For
conducting the project quality improvement, the baseline data of the project is to be collected and

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proper data collection is to be done on regular basis and make proper decisions based on the data
analysis.
4. Communication the results with team members: The efforts of QI are made transparent
to the staffs, the patients and the physicians. The practice team and the patients are to be included
when planning and implementing the project of QI and proper communication practice is to
include in the project for project needs, results and the actions of project.
5. Commit with ongoing evaluation: The process of quality improvement is ongoing
process and includes high functioning practice that will improve the performance, effectiveness
of interventions as helps to solicit the patients and feedback of the staffs (Bytautas, Gheihman &
Dobrow, 2017).
6. Spreading the success of project: The lessons learnt from the project is to be shared so
that others can support it in wide scale and improvement in the project can benefit the patients
and the whole healthcare industry.
The quality improvement regarding the patient fall in healthcare centers is the mainly
dependent on the nursing dashboard and that requires continuous evaluation for ensuring safety
mostly among the older people. The risk factors are to be accessed properly regarding the patient
fall in the hospital and proper evaluation is to be done regarding that. The QI of the project and
nursing research is to be studied properly to improve the quality of the project.

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References
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