Formative Assessment
This formative assessment serves as a foundational step towards your summative project by reinforcing your understanding of quality improvement processes and their application in real-world scenarios. Gaining proficiency in these areas is essential for your future role as a DNP-prepared nurse, as it enables you to lead initiatives that enhance healthcare delivery and improve patient safety and satisfaction.
Instructions:
For this assignment, you will analyze a quality improvement (QI) initiative in a clinical setting and reflect on how outcomes management can enhance the care provided.
- Select a Quality Improvement Initiative: Choose a QI project relevant to your practice area or a well-known initiative within the healthcare field (e.g., reducing hospital readmissions, improving patient handoff processes, or increasing vaccination rates).
- Analyze the Initiative:
- Describe the main goals of the chosen QI initiative, including specific outcome measures used to evaluate success.
- Discuss the process measures that were implemented as part of the initiative and how they contributed to achieving the desired outcomes.
- Reflection:
- Reflect on the importance of outcomes management in the QI process. How can effective outcomes management inform nursing practice and lead to continuous improvements in patient care?
- Consider how you would apply what you’ve learned in this assessment to your future nursing practice and leadership roles.
Document Type/Template
- Word Document
Select a Quality Improvement Initiative: Choose a QI project relevant to your practice area or a well-known initiative within the healthcare field (e.g., reducing hospital readmissions, improving patient handoff processes,
