Nursing Technology And Health Care Information Systems

Nursing Technology And Health Care Information Systems

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Quality Improvement Project Plan Using Informatics/Technology
This project is based upon your interest, as well as an identified need within your current, proposed, or future organization or healthcare setting using what you discovered in the Week 2, 4, 6, and 8 assignments.

You will identify one or more potential informatics/technology-based solutions to the problem identified and an associated proposed practice change.

The plan should be submitted as an APA-formatted paper.

This is a suggested format for the paper.

Introduction
Problem
· Define and/ or describe the problem.

· Detail the significance and impact of the problem.

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· Who are the stakeholders? (Examples: executive leadership, clinical departments, IT department, medical staff, and legal counsel.)

· Why is the problem important to the stakeholders?

Data to Support the Problem and Trigger a Need for a Practice Change
· What does the Leapfrog data tell you?

· What does the Medicare Compare information reveal?

Proposed Solution
· Outline the proposed solutions.

· Clearly outline what you are trying to accomplish, compelling vision.

· Define the technologies/informatics.

· Articulate how the technologies/informatics will facilitate workflow and/or transform practice to improve patient outcomes.

· Specify at least three data points to be measured and the monitoring tool that will be used to show opportunities for improvement, modifications, and/ or sustainability.

· Explain implementation issues and challenges for the identified informatics priorities. (Example: ethical, human and financial resources, coordination with other entities, and composition of the workflow redesign team.)

· You can reference your risk mitigation plan here.

· State the role of the leaders in introducing a change strategy.

· Consider organizational readiness, strengths, and barriers

· Include suggested model for leading organizational change, including rationale for selection. (Examples: Kotter’s eight-step process, Lewin’s change management model.)

· Include proposed communication plan.

· What information would you provide to the executive leadership and/or board to garner support for the proposes change?

Workflow Analysis
· Visual depiction of the existing process or practice (a process map).

· Analyze and describe where inefficiencies, breakdown of process, and/ or communication occurs.

· Differentiate value-added versus non-value-added steps.

· Visual depiction of the post practice change process or practice (a process map).

Summary: Final Recommendations and Conclusions
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