Question

How would you descripte an approach for evaluating, prioritizing, and resourcing quality improvement initiatives. Then, explain how your health services organization, or one with which you are familiar, decides which quality improvement initiatives are resourced and implemented. Be specific and provide examples.

Answer 1

Approach for evaluation of quality improvement

Quality assurance approach

Defining quality , improving quality , measuring quality

In defining quality

Develop the expectations or desired outcome

It should be administrative level

It should be based on evidenced based practice and universally accepted

In improving quality

Determine the problem ., analysis the system of care , develop an solution to that problem, implement that and evaluate the outcome and compare the result with previous outcome

In measuring quality

Qualityfing the current level of performance

Special surveys , conduct the audit , do an self assessment , supervise the workers , observation of the clinical performance of the individual in the health care system , bench marking , genttchart used to evaluate the quality improvement and feedback from patients .

Priorities for quality improvement initiatives ;

Develop an all projects in our organisation

Make sure it has all approached scope statement and detailed project plan

Identity and record the overall goal

Establish the criteria for determining the impact you expect of each project

Rank each projects priority level

Resource to improve the quality ;

Money

Manpower

Material and time

How the health service organisation should be means

It should be safe , assessble , high quality in care delivery, patient centred care provider ,

It should moving towards the universal health coverage.

Examples in quality improvement

Improve the standard of nursing care

Reduce the medication errors

Reducing the cost through accurate management

Technologies in cancer treatment , emergency services

Improvement in patient centred care

It provide and opportunity for safety and quality of care of institutions

Decreasing the nursing work load and stress by easy method of care giving etc