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CALUMS Medication Errors Quality Improvement Initiative Paper

 

REQUIREMENTS

A.  Create an e-portfolio shell using OneNote.

Note: Use the “Knowledge Base Link” weblink for instructions

1.  Create four sections labeled with the following headings:

  quality and safety

  evidence-based practice

  applied leadership

  community and population health

B.  Briefly describe each of the following sections by drawing on your clinical experiences, (e.g., skills lab, simulation, clinical rotations and/or professional practice):

Note: Personal reflections should be included in the portfolio.  

  •  quality and safety
  •  evidence-based practice
  •  applied leadership
  •  community and population health

Note: Personal reflections should be included in the portfolio.  

Note: A short paragraph of a few sentences will be sufficient to fill the space for now. You may include experiences from your life that influenced your decision to become a nurse (e.g. What does the  experience mean? Why is the experience important? How will you integrate what you learned from that experience into your practice?).

C.  Acknowledge sources, using APA-formatted in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.

Topic; Quality   Improvement Proposal

Identify a quality improvement opportunity in your organization or practice. In a 1,250-1,500 word paper, describe the problem or issue and propose a quality improvement initiative based on evidence-based practice. Apply “The Road to Evidence-Based Practice” process, illustrated in Chapter 4 of your textbook, to create your proposal.

Include the following:

Provide an overview of the problem and the setting in which the problem or issue occurs.

Explain why a quality improvement initiative is needed in this area and the expected outcome.

Discuss how the results of previous research demonstrate support for the quality improvement initiative and its projected outcomes. Include a minimum of three peer-reviewed sources published within the last 5 years, not included in the course materials or textbook, that establish evidence in support of the quality improvement proposed.

Discuss steps necessary to implement the quality improvement initiative. Provide evidence and rationale to support your answer.

Explain how the quality improvement initiative will be evaluated to determine whether there was improvement.

Support your explanation by identifying the variables, hypothesis test, and statistical test that you would need to prove that the quality improvement initiative succeeded.