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NURS 8302 Week 7 Discussion: Strategies for Building Effective Teams You have been assigned to work on a team to support a new quality improvement initiative at your nursing practice. The initiative is designed to support and improve patient care, and the team is tasked with leading the initiative. The team is comprised of the…
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NURS 8302 Week 6 Assignment 3: Clinical Assignment 2: Organization Meeting Summary Preparation to begin your DNP Project begins with the meeting with an organization to explore a gap in practice or a practice change that you might address as your DNP Project. Preparing for this meeting includes following the instructions in your NURS 8302…
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NURS 8302 Week 6 Assignment 2: Clinical Assignment 1: DNP Project Faculty Advisor and Site Identification—Matching Request Form For this Assignment, you will: Complete the one-page PROJECT SUMMARY for this assignment including the following information for the planned DNP Project: Planned Project Title Organization (site name/type of setting) Location (city, state, and/or country) Practice gap…
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NURS 8302 Week 6 Assignment 1: Organizational Culture Assessment Tool Your organization is ready to implement a quality improvement initiative; however, it is becoming increasingly clear that perhaps not everyone is on board with the proposal. What could be contributing to this potential resistance? How might organizational culture impact or influence the ability to engage…
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NURS 8302 Week 6 Discussion: Quality Improvement Initiative Your organization has recently discovered there have been too frequent errors in medication distribution. After launching an investigation in the matter, and discovering the reasons for the errors, your organization is ready to launch a quality improvement initiative. What might this initiative entail? What is included, and…
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NURS 8302 Week 4 Assignment 2: Tools for Measuring Quality How do we determine quality? Quality in other areas of our lives can be subjective, so how do we ensure—specifically as it relates to our nursing practice—that quality is clearly defined and measurable? Tools for measuring quality are used to assess the value measured, collected,…
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NURS 8302 Week 4 Assignment: Applying Project Management Approaches for a Quality Improvement Practice Gap Project management allows for a clear and focused workflow to approach an issue or task. These approaches streamline a process, allow for checks and balances, and ensure all stakeholders are active participants in the process. Project management approaches often utilize…
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NURS 8302 Week 3 Discussion: Identifying Practice Gaps for Quality Improvement What should be happening in practice? What is happening or observed in practice? These two questions help to identify where quality improvement practice gaps might exist in nursing practice. If we know what should be happening does not coincide with what is happening, we know there is an…
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NURS 8302 Week 2 Discussion: Quality Indicators Florence Nightingale introduced research to the field of nursing, and with this introduction, a focus on improving patient care has continued to be at the forefront of nursing practice. Improving patient care lends itself to the study of quality care and patient safety, and nurse-sensitive quality indicators highlight…
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NURS 8302 Week 1 Discussion 2: Just Culture As an alternative to a punitive system, application of the Just Culture model, which has been widely used in the aviation industry, seeks to create an environment that encourages individuals to report mistakes so that the precursors to errors can be better understood in order to fix…