QI Project: Reducing Medication Errors NUR701

Task: You are required to design a quality improvement project that requires a change in clinical practice.

Project Topic: Decreased medication administration errors.

No. Words: 1000

1. Identify and justify the need for a safety and quality improvement (QI) project using a quality tool e.g. Root cause analysis, Ishikawa Fishbone.
2. Review and appraise relevant literature and evidence (evidence based practice standards, guidelines or best practice principles) to support the QI project.
3. Demonstrate why the change is needed and how the change will be implemented using a change model.
4. Reflect on your own leadership style and capabilities in facilitating this change and identify leadership skills that you need to develop and how you will do this.

Assessment Criteria

You will be assessed on your ability to:

1. Clearly identify and justify the need for a quality improvement project that requires a change in clinical practice using a quality tool.
2. Present relevant literature, guidelines and evidence to support your quality improvement project.
3. Outline a change model in relation to implementing your quality improvement project.
4. Evaluate your leadership style and capabilities you will need to develop and lead the project.
5. Construct a coherent and logical presentation with a clear purpose, structure and flow using APA 7th edition for citing references.

Rubric Criterion?

• Identifies and justifies the project using a quality tool. Provides a comprehensive justification of a safety or quality improvement project with reference to a quality tool.

• Provides evidence for the project. Provides a comprehensive presentation of relevant literature, evidence-based practice standards, guidelines and principles to support the quality improvement project.

• Outlines a change model to facilitate the project. Provides a comprehensive presentation of a change model that will guide the quality improvement project including a rationale as to why the model was chosen.

• Evaluates leadership style and need for further development. Provides an insightful reflection and evaluation of leadership style and identifies areas of leadership capability that need further development.

• Construction and referencing. Presentation and design. Language and APA 7th edition referencing.

Important for MARKS:

• Cause and effect analysis FISHBONE
• 5 WHYs Analysis
• Leadership Style
• Leadership theories

Worth 5 Marks

• Construction and referencing
• Presentation and design
• Language and APA7th edition referencing
• Remember less is more

Find a project 5 Marks

• ask a question
• acquire the current evidence
• appraise the literature
• apply your findings
• evaluate your outcomes
• disseminate your findings.

Privide evidence for the protect 5 Marks

• Literatutre
• evidence based practice
• standards,
• guidelines and