ind a process at your employment site that needs improvement. In a written paper you will describe the process and address the elements below. This is a planning assignment so you will be looking at what needs to be done and who the players are. There is no implementation phase of this assignment. Clarify current unit/organizational knowledge of the current process and if there is any insight on how to improve the situation at hand. Why is there is a process breakdown?

Patient Care Quality and Safety Project Presentation

Find a process at your employment site that needs improvement. In a written paper you will describe the process and address the elements below. This is a planning assignment so you will be looking at what needs to be done and who the players are. There is no implementation phase of this assignment.

Clarify current unit/organizational knowledge of the current process and if there is any insight on how to improve the situation at hand.
Why is there is a process breakdown?
Describe the inter-professional team that you would put together if you were working on this process improvement as an employee of the hospital
Include current evidence based practice literature findings that have assisted in improving the process you have identified the process (minimum of two scholarly articles)
Describe how you would plan to implement an improvement process.
Please limit this assignment to a total of 5-6 pages excluding Title and Reference page. Follow APA format strictly

QI Project Paper Format

Page 1. Title page includes your name, class and section # university, date and my title

Page 2 – 6 – content of this assignment please use headers

Ex. Introduction to Process Improvement Need

EBP Model

Organizational Knowledge

Inter-professional Team

Current Evidence

Plan for Improvement

Summary

Page 7 – References

Quality Improvement Grading Criteria

Identifies and discusses a current work related problem that is from one of the Institute of Medicines 6 areas of competencies: Patient Centered Care, Teamwork and Collaboration, Evidence-Based Practice, Quality Improvement, Safety and Informatics. (10)
Identify and discusses which model discussed in the QI Tutorial, could be utilized in the process of evaluating and implementing change. (10)
Identifies why or what is the process breakdown (15)
Discusses and evaluates the current unit/organizational knowledge of the current process. (15)
Analysis whether there is any insight on how to improve the situation. (10)
This section worth 60 points

Describe what previous evidence has shown (in your own words) (10)
Describe how you would plan to implement an improvement process(10)
Discuss how you would evaluate your plan.(10)
This section worth 30 points

APA section is worth 10 points

Include current evidence based practice literature findings that have assisted in improving the process you have identified
Paper conforms to APA 6th edition format and demonstrates a professional level of scholarship, which means it includes (but is not limited to) items such as:
Section headings for each graded part of the rubric (2)
Include introduction and conclusion paragraphs ( 1 point each)
Scholarly references that are cited in the paper and in APA format (minimum of three scholarly articles plus textbook as references). (2)
All scholarly content should be cited. All citations should be listed in the reference list. (1)
Title page, double spaced (1)
Thorough detailed responses (2)
Clear flow of thoughts (Good grammar and sentence structure
Total Points : 100