Quality Improvement- Preventing Falls

Order Description Managin" rel="nofollow">ing quality and risks is a major responsibility of the nurse/nurse manager in" rel="nofollow">in today’s health care practice. Quality improvement is a never-endin" rel="nofollow">ing process and stresses “room for improvement”. To better understand the concept of quality improvement, you are to examin" rel="nofollow">ine the topic and write a paper that will meet the followin" rel="nofollow">ing objectives: 1. Increase your understandin" rel="nofollow">ing of quality improvement 2. Be cognizant of the nurse’s role in" rel="nofollow">in this process. Use the followin" rel="nofollow">ing guidelin" rel="nofollow">ines and the gradin" rel="nofollow">ing rubric as you write your paper. • Describe the contin" rel="nofollow">inuous quality improvement process • I selected the topic From the join" rel="nofollow">int Commission National Patient Safety Goals of preventin" rel="nofollow">ing residents from fallin" rel="nofollow">ing. • Identify the primary settin" rel="nofollow">ing for which you identified the goal (I have selected the settin" rel="nofollow">ing of a nursin" rel="nofollow">ing Home). • Describe and critique a policy, procedure or system related to the safety goal you have selected. (Fall risk screenin" rel="nofollow">ing tool) • Discuss processes that may be used to assess outcomes • Discuss a plan to achieve the outcome • Identify the advantages to staff, patient, and the agency of achievement of outcomes • Describe what was learned about the CQI process