LC4004A Quality Improvement Tools Assignment

LC4004A Assessment Instructions

Review the details of your assessment including the rubric. You will have the ability to submit the assessment once you submit your required self-assessments and engage with your Faculty Subject Matter Expert (SME) in a substantive way about the competency. LC4004A Quality Improvement Tools Assignment

Overview

In this Assessment, you will analyze different quality improvement tools and apply one to the practice problem that you identified in LC4002A and either revised or affirmed in LC4003A.

Submission Length: 4- to 5-pages

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Looking Ahead

Over the course of Competencies LC4002A – LC4005A, you will be going through the steps of your Quality Improvement Project which will be submitted in LC4005A. During each Competency, you will complete one or more parts of the final project, and in LC4005A, you will use these parts to create the final project.

This practice experience project has six parts:

Analyze available evidence and identify a quality improvement practice problem;
Conduct a literature search finding data and evidence-based solutions/interventions to support the importance of the quality improvement practice problem;
Identify the quality improvement tools (Fishbone diagram, Pareto Chart, Process Flow Chart, etc.) that will display the data supporting the need for the Quality Improvement Project;
Apply the PDSA process to the development of the Quality Improvement Project;
Develop an evidence-based plan to address the quality improvement practice problem; and
Present the final Quality Improvement Project as a comprehensive paper and quality improvement storyboard.

The practice experience is an active learning process that provides you with the opportunity to apply your nursing knowledge by addressing a quality improvement practice problem. The practice experience is comprised of selected onsite experiences and completion of a Quality Improvement Project with guidance from your subject matter expert. For additional information on the practice experience, follow this link: https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/fieldexperience/son/home

The practice experience guide can also be found here: https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/ld.php?content_id=45642029

Instructions

To complete this Assessment, do the following:

Be sure to adhere to the indicated assignment length.
Access the following:

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Rubric

All submissions must follow the conventions of scholarly writing. Properly formatted APA citations and references must be provided where appropriate. Submissions that do not meet these expectations will be returned without scoring.

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Applying Quality Improvement Tools

The nursing professional uses a variety of tools when collecting and analyzing data. These tools can help with organizing and displaying as well as highlighting trends. In this Assessment, you will analyze several quality improvement tools, then apply one to your practice problem.

In a 4- to 5-page paper, address the following:

Analyze the fishbone diagram. Explain how the information presented in the fishbone diagram might be used to help inform nursing practice when preventing medication errors.
Analyze the Pareto chart. Include an explanation of how many medication errors there were and how this information might assist the nursing unit in preventing future medication errors.
Analyze the process flow chart. Explain how this information might be used to help inform nursing practice for the prevention of future medication errors.
Analyze the run chart as it relates to patient satisfaction with pain management. Explain whether the data in the run chart indicates improved or decreased satisfaction with pain management and defend your reasoning.
Consider the practice problem that you identified in LC4002 and either revised or affirmed in LC4003. Choose either a fishbone diagram, Pareto chart, process flow chart, or run chart, and apply it to the data relating to the practice problem (that you located in LC4002).

LC4004A: Quality Improvement Tools: Analyze information from quality improvement tools. Assessment Rubric

Rubric Criteria	Does Not Meet Expectations	Meets Expectations	Exceeds Expectations
Module 1: Fishbone Diagram
Analyze the fishbone diagram. Learning Objective 1.1: Analyze fishbone diagrams	Response does not adequately analyze the fishbone diagram.	Response adequately analyzes the fishbone diagram.	Response clearly and completely analyzes the fishbone diagram.
Explain how the information presented in the fishbone diagram might be used to help inform nursing practice when preventing medication errors. Learning Objective 1.2: Analyze the use of fishbone diagrams in preventing medication errors	Response does not adequately explain how the information presented in the fishbone diagram might be used to help inform nursing practice when preventing medication errors. LC4004A Quality Improvement Tools Assignment	Response adequately explains how the information presented in the fishbone diagram might be used to help inform nursing practice when preventing medication errors.	Response clearly and completely explains how the information presented in the fishbone diagram might be used to help inform nursing practice when preventing medication errors.
Module 2: Pareto Chart
Analyze the Pareto chart. Learning Objective 2.1: Analyze Pareto charts	Response does not adequately analyze the Pareto chart.	Response adequately analyzes the Pareto chart.	Response clearly and completely analyzes the Pareto chart.

Rubric Criteria	Does Not Meet Expectations	Meets Expectations	Exceeds Expectations
Include an explanation of how many medication errors there were and how this information might assist the nursing unit in preventing future medication errors. Learning Objective 2.2: Explain medication error prevention information based on a Pareto chart	Response does not adequately explain how many medication errors there were or how this information might assist the nursing unit in preventing future medication errors.	Response adequately explains how many medication errors there were and adequately explains how this information might assist the nursing unit in preventing future medication errors.	Response clearly and completely explain how many medication errors there were and thoroughly explains how this information might assist the nursing unit in preventing future medication errors. LC4004A Quality Improvement Tools Assignment
Module 3: Process Flow Chart
Analyze the process flow chart. Learning Objective 3.1: Analyze process flow charts	Response does not adequately analyze the process flow chart.	Response adequately analyzes the process flow chart.	Response clearly and completely analyzes the process flow chart.
Explain how this information might be used to help inform nursing practice for the prevention of future medication errors. Learning Objective 3.2: Explain the use of process flow charts in preventing medication errors	Response does not adequately explain how the process flow chart information might be used to help inform nursing practice for the prevention of future medication errors.	Response adequately explains how the process flow chart information might be used to help inform nursing practice for the prevention of future medication errors.	Response clearly and completely explains how the process flow chart information might be used to help inform nursing practice for the prevention of future medication errors.
Module 4: Run Chart
Analyze the run chart as it relates to patient	Response does not adequately analyze the run	Response adequately analyzes the run chart as it	Response clearly and completely analyzes the

Rubric Criteria	Does Not Meet Expectations	Meets Expectations	Exceeds Expectations
satisfaction with pain management. Learning Objective 4.1: Analyze run charts	chart as it relates to patient satisfaction with pain management.	relates to patient satisfaction with pain management.	run chart as it relates to patient satisfaction with pain management.
Explain whether the data in the run chart indicates improved or decreased satisfaction with pain management. Learning Objective 4.2: Explain run chart data	Response does not adequately explain whether the data in the run chart indicates improved or decreased satisfaction with pain management. LC4004A Quality Improvement Tools Assignment	Response adequately explains whether the data in the run chart indicates improved or decreased satisfaction with pain management.	Response clearly and completely explains whether the data in the run chart indicates improved or decreased satisfaction with pain management.
Defend your reasoning for whether the run chart indicates improved or decreased satisfaction with pain management. Learning Objective 4.3: Defend your assessment of run chart data	Response does not adequately defend your reasoning for whether the run chart indicates improved or decreased satisfaction with pain management.	Response adequately defends your reasoning for whether the run chart indicates improved or decreased satisfaction with pain management.	Response clearly and completely defends your reasoning for whether the run chart indicates improved or decreased satisfaction with pain management.
Choose either a fishbone diagram, Pareto chart, process flow chart, or run chart, and apply it to the data relating to the practice problem.	Response does not adequately select or apply a quality improvement tool to the data relating to the practice problem.	Response adequately selects and applies a quality improvement tool to the data relating to the practice problem.	Response clearly and completely selects and applies a quality improvement tool to the data relating to the practice problem.

Rubric Criteria	Does Not Meet Expectations	Meets Expectations	Exceeds Expectations
Learning Objective 4.4: Apply quality improvement tools to nursing practice problems

Professional Skills Assessment

Professional Writing

Professional Writing: Clarity, Flow, and Organization

Content contains significant spelling, punctuation, and/or grammar/syntax errors.

Writing does not demonstrate adequate sentence and paragraph structure and requires additional editing/proofreading. Key sections of presented content lack clarity, logical flow, and/or organization.

Content contains few spelling, punctuation, and/or grammar/syntax errors. Writing demonstrates adequate sentence and paragraph structure and may require some editing. Content presented is satisfactorily clear, logical, and/or organized, but could

benefit from additional editing/revision.

Content is free from spelling, punctuation, and grammar/syntax errors.

Writing demonstrates appropriate sentence and paragraph structure.

Content presented is clear, logical, and well-organized.

Professional Writing: Context, Audience, Purpose, and Tone

Content minimally or does not demonstrate awareness of context, audience, and/or purpose. Writing is not reflective of professional/scholarly tone and/or is not free of bias.

Style is inconsistent with the professional setting/workplace context

Content demonstrates satisfactory awareness of context, audience, and purpose. Tone is adequately professional, scholarly, and/or free from bias, and style is mostly consistent with the

professional setting/workplace context. LC4004A Quality Improvement Tools Assignment

Content clearly demonstrates awareness of context, audience, and purpose. Tone is highly professional, scholarly, and free from bias, and style is appropriate for the professional setting/workplace context.

	and reflects the need for additional editing.
Professional Writing:	Content does not	Content adequately reflects	Content reflects original
Originality, Source	adequately reflect original	original writing and	thought and writing and
Credibility, and Attribution	writing and/or paraphrasing.	paraphrasing. Writing	proper paraphrasing.
of Ideas	Writing demonstrates	demonstrates adequate	Writing demonstrates full
	inconsistent adherence to	adherence to reference	adherence to reference
	reference requirements,	requirements, including the	requirements, including the
	including the use of credible	use of credible evidence to	use of credible evidence to
	evidence to support a claim,	support a claim, with	support a claim, with
	with appropriate source	appropriate source	appropriate source
	attribution (when applicable)	attribution (when	attribution (when applicable)
	and reference. There are	applicable) and references.	and references.
	numerous and/or significant	There are one or two minor
	errors.	errors.