In this assessment task, you are asked to identify an area of nursing practice that would benefit from a quality improvement process to improve qual

In this assessment task, you are asked to identify an area of nursing practice that would benefit from a quality improvement process to improve quality and patient safety outcomes.

Your idea could come from your healthcare experiences as a student on placement, as a healthcare worker or even as a patient. What have you seen that is inefficient and could be solved by a quality improvement project? Questions to consider: -

Have you experienced a time when the patient care or processes were not ideal?

Did you think that this practice could be improved?

Was there something that you thought could be done differently to make the process more efficient for the patient?

To help get you thinking, some examples of an area of nursing practice that would benefit from a quality improvement process in order to improve quality and patient safety outcomes could include: -

Patients waiting longer than necessary for a procedure due to a failure in process:

Incorrect information communicated leading to patient treatment error

Inefficient processes that impact nursing workload

Your essay should be structured in the following way and cover the following points.

write in the 3rd person

1) Introduction (10 marks, approximately 380 words): Comprehensive introduction of area of nursing practice and description of topic. NSQHS standard/s identified.

Identify thearea of nursing practice that would benefit from a quality improvement process (hereafter your topic)

Include a description of the topic that covers details on the setting (ward type, location etc.), the people involved and what inefficiencies/errors you noticed

Briefly state which NSQHS Standard/s that this area of nursing practice addresses

Note this section is worth 10 marks approximately 380 words. Therefore, please ensure that you are factual and brief and give context to your topic without judgement or being too verbose.

It is important that any identifying information is anonymised so that the organisation or people cannot be recognised.

2) Review of the literature (20 marks, approximately 760 words)Significant and detailed analysis of the literature evidence and/or causative factors and/or potential solutions

Effective use of a wide range of relevant, credible and reliable literature throughout.

Analyse the research literature that has been completed in relation to your topic

How have others worked to improve practice in this area?

Discuss the literature related to the extent of the problem/issue and the causative factors

Discuss the potential solutions for your topic from the literature evidence

Note it is expected that you include a range of credible and reliable literature in this section.

3) Discussion of quality improvement project (20 marks, approximately 760 words). Topic applied to Australian Safety and Quality Framework. Significant discussion of the links to all three principals.

Describe which of the solution/s from your review of the literature that you will implement as your quality improvement project to improve your topic

State a SMART goal for your QI project

Discuss what your quality improvement idea is including:

What would be needed to implement this in practice?

Who the key stakeholders are?

How you will measure the change (how will you know your project was or was not successful)?

What the likely impact is on staff and patients?

How will you plan for your QI project to be sustained long term?

4) Policies, procedures and/or clinical practice guidelines (10 marks, approximately 380 words) Comprehensive conclusion that effectively summarises main points in relation

to topic chosen. Comprehensive discussion of findings

Provide details of evidence-based resources that are relevant to your topic

Policies and/or procedures and/or clinical practice guidelines

Discussion of these resources and comparison with clinical practice

How do these resources relate to your topic?

Does clinical practice differ from the guidelines/policies?

Note you may not be able to find evidence-based resources on a particular, specific topic, but there are always over-arching documents that would either include that topic broadly or could be adapted to include that topic.

5) Australian Safety and Quality Framework (10 marks, approximately 380 words)

Describe how your quality improvement project aligns with each of the three principals of the Australian Safety and Quality Framework

Consumer centred

Driven by information

Organised for safety

6) Conclusion (10 marks, approximately 380 words)

Conclude the main findings of your paper

Discuss the implications of your quality improvement project in terms of improving quality and patient safety outcomes

7) References (10 marks)

Students must adhere to APA 7thedition referencing. References should be no more than 7 years old (unless a seminal paper).Number of references: overall, we would be looking for somewhere around 12-20 current, scholarly references (depending on the quality and relevance of the references).