WGU C157 Questions and Answers 100% Pass

WGU C157 Questions and Answers 100% Pass PDSA Plan, do, study, act Quality improvement is used to make improvements to a process Quality improvement focuses on making an entire system's outcomes better What exactly are we going to do? Plan When and how did we do it? Do What were the results? Study What changes are we going to make based on our findings? Act Aim characteristics time specific, measurable, define project Plan: Select your goals Write down the goals with a timeline Do: Implement change Do: assign one person to be responsibleThe surgery department's monthly case review revealed the need for the development of a new innovation to meet better surgical patient outcomes. Which of the following would the Advance Practice Nurse need to consider having as part of the innovation committee? Surgeon, scrub nurse, patient An MSN needs to assign a staff member to assist a medical director in the development of a quality program for a newly established service. Which of the following staff members is most appropriate for this project? a competent staff member who has good interpersonal skills The MSN leader is regularly monitoring the number of inappropriate referral, the timeliness of discharge planning, and the number of days of discharge delays. What additional monitor should the MSN leader recommend to the Discharge Planning Team to be added to the process for evaluating the appropriateness of discharge planning interventions? attainment of discharge planning goals Pharmacy services and nursing are having difficulty developing an action plan for medication errors. Pharmacy services states that nursing services cause the majority of the problems related to errors, while nursing services states the opposite. The MSN Leader's role in resolving this problem is to: facilitate discussion between the groups to enable them to assume ownership of their portions of the problem In beginning a new quality improvement innovation, the designated committee identifies a need for change in the medication reconciliation process, and creates a new documentation form that covers all essential elements of the process. The committee also develops a way to assess monthly compliance with use of the new form. These tasks represent which step of the PDSA model? planning a change An acute care hospital wants to change their information sharing policy. They currently share the following information with patients only: diagnoses, care planning, medications, activity, and discharge information. The change to the HIPAA privacy pol