Quality Improvement and patient Safety
Competency Assessment Title: Quality Improvement and Patient Safety
Assignment Directions
Define the Problem and Scope for Your Project
Resource: Question Development Tool
Identify the focus of your project and anticipate the ethical, legal, and regulatory concerns that may arise. Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI)
For this assessment, you will begin your plan with the following:
- Define the problem.
- Identify the problem to be addressed and the setting in which it occurs.
- Outline your proposal to address the problem.
- Identify and discuss ethical, legal, and regulatory concerns relating to the problem.
- Explain why you chose the problem.
Support your plan by gathering as much information about your selected problem as possible. Consider both qualitative and quantitative data, for example:
- Leader and peer interviews
- Patient/customer surveys
- Quality improvement (QI) reports from the facility
- Benchmarking studies/baseline data
- If baseline data is available:
- What is the goal?
- Are current practices meeting the organizational goal?
- Are the prescribed practices followed?
- Competency Assessment Rubric
1. The assignment fully identified the focus of the project and anticipated the ethical, legal, and regulatory concerns that may arise.
2. The assignment fully described the problem to be addressed and the setting in which it occurs.
3. The assignment fully outlined the proposal to address the problem.
4. The assignment fully identified and described the ethical, legal, and regulatory concerns relating to the problem.
5. The assignment fully related why the particular program was chosen.