Managing System Change and Improving Patient Outcomes.

During the foreseeable future, it is reasonable to assume that efforts to improve quality will increasingly shape the future of health care delivery. There are questions, however, as to whether the nursing profession is prepared for such a future. For example, in 5 years will nurses be prepared for an environment in which decisions based explicitly on information about quality determine who gets resources, how patients are cared for, and ultimately, which professions thrive? Will nurses have empirically based information linking quality to nursing practice? Will nurses be able to implement quality improvement in nursing practice? Are nursing educators providing sufficient education and background in quality improvement needed by nurses in the future? Because we believe that neither the nursing profession nor nursing education programs can answer these questions unequivocally, the time has come to consider requiring nursing curriculum to explicitly incorporate theories, methods, and practices in quality improvement.
STUDY MATERIAL: https://youtu.be/_s05qFON5EA https://youtu.be/YS8kD6Mas-M http://www.emergingrnleader.com/systemsthinkinginnursing/ https://youtu.be/yN-MkRcOJjY https://stanfordhealthcare.org/health-care-professionals/nursing/quality-safety.html
FORMAT:
6-8 references (or more) with corresponding in text citations using APA format 7TH edition. PERSONAL INFO: I have been a registered nurse for 15 years. I work at a hospital in Los Angeles in psychiatric nursing.
COURSE INFORMATION:
Managing System Change and Improving Patient Outcomes Course Description: This course focuses on the analysis and application of systems theory and skills needed to assess, plan and evaluate the care of populations within health systems. The evaluation of current outcome measures as well as the acquisition and management of outcome data will be studied. Systems change is discussed as it relates to effective outcomes of care. An emphasis is placed on clinical, functional, and financial outcomes as well as satisfaction indicators.
ASSIGNMENT:
AHRQ study: Quality Improvement is a formal approach to the analysis of performance and systematic efforts to improve it. The US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality defines quality healthcare as “doing the right thing, at the right time, in the right way, for the right person—and having the best possible results.’
Directions:

1. The student selects one of the following case studies (http://goo.gl/QJ9nnf)
   a. Insulin Overdose -(http://www.ihi.org/education/IHIOpenSchool/resources/Pages/Activities/AnInsulinOverdose.aspx)
   b. Knowing is Not Enough – http://www.ihi.org/education/IHIOpenSchool/resources/Pages/CaseStudies/KnowingisNotEnough.aspx
   c. The Crowd Clinic – http://www.ihi.org/education/IHIOpenSchool/resources/Pages/Activities/TheCrowdedClinic.aspx
   d. The Unfortunate Admission – http://www.ihi.org/education/IHIOpenSchool/resources/Pages/CaseStudies/TheUnfortunateAdmission.aspx
2. The student will create a power point presentation (with title and reference pages) addressing the following points, point per slide:
   e. Briefly provide an overview of case.
   f. What went wrong in the case?
   g. How can the issues be resolved?
   h. Who and what role do other disciplines have in resolving the issues?
   i. What is your proposed solution?
   j. What barriers exist towards implementing your proposed solutions?
   RESOURCES
   • Institute of Health Improvement