Imagine one of your roles was to form a quality improvement committee in a place of practice (examples: hospital, long term care facility, assisted living).

Answer the following questions. Your post should look like:

• Paragraph one: Why is quality improvement important at your place of practice? Be specific.
• Paragraph two: Who should be on your committee and why? Do you believe patients or clients should be part of the committee? Why or why not?
• Paragraph three: How could you increase employee interest in joining the QI committee?
• Resources: Where did you find your data?

Solution

Paragraph one: Why is quality improvement important at your place of practice? Be specific.

The unit I work on actually had this discussion during our monthly staff meetings. It seems that throughout the hospital, our numbers are going up compared to last year…numbers meaning infection rates; CAUTI & CLABSI numbers are up throughout the hospital as well as nosocomial infections. On the floor I work on, we had 1 CLABSI and 1 CDiff nosocomial infection since January. Management explained to us that not only is this bad news for patient care…………..please follow the link below to purchase the solution at $5