Assessment Description
Continuous quality improvement (CQI) is the responsibility of all nurses and is vital when addressing
the challenges of the health care industry. Provide an example of how you would apply CQI in your
current or past position. If you are new to health care, select a nurse practice issue and discuss how
you would apply CQI to address the issue. Discuss a quality improvement method that could be used
to support CQI in your example.
Initial discussion question posts should be a minimum of 200 words and include at least two
references cited using APA format. Responses to peers or faculty should be 100-150 words and include
one reference. Refer to "RN-BSN Discussion Question Rubric" and "RN-BSN Participation Rubric,"
located in Class Resources, to understand the expectations for initial discussion question posts and
participation posts, respectively.
American Association of Colleges of Nursing Core Competencies for Professional Nursing Education
This assignment aligns to AACN Core Competency 5.1.
Answer:
Continuous quality improvement (CQI) is the responsibility of all nurses and is vital when
addressing the challenges of the health care industry. Provide an example of how you would
apply CQI in your current or past position. If you are new to health care, select a nurse
practice issue and discuss how you would apply CQI to address the issue. Discuss a quality
improvement method that could be used to support CQI in your example.
Continuous quality improvement (CQI) is a philosophy and attitude that allows for the
analysis of capabilities and different processes, with the aim of achieving repeated
improvement that contributes to achieving patient satisfaction, specifically in issues
related to health care and patient satisfaction (Hill et al., 2020).
The applications of continuous quality improvement are multiple. An example could be
when a registered nurse provides care in the emergency department of a health unit. She
detects that a problem that has occurred continuously is the long waiting times required
for patients to be seen, which caused dissatisfaction and discontent among them. To
apply CQI in this scenario, the first step would be the timely identification of the
problem (long waiting times to be seen in the emergency department). This would be
followed by a detailed analysis of the problem, which requires the search for
information about the problem in order to understand the causes that gave rise to it.
Specific data could be identified, such as waiting time, the number of patients seen per
day, the number of staff available for care each day, and how their work time is
organized.
In this case, it is essential to analyze and develop an improvement plan that contributes
to increasing patient satisfaction. The implementation of a triage system would allow
patients to be prioritized according to the severity of their health problems. Adjusting
staff schedules is a fundamental element to consider in order to improve care coverage
during times of greatest influx of staff to the emergency department.
In order to implement this plan, it is necessary to train staff so that they properly
understand the new triage system, and how schedules will be adjusted to ensure faster
care without decreasing quality. This process also requires continuous monitoring of its
effectiveness, checking how the plan improves and optimizes the waiting time for care.
Continuous quality improvement (CQI) is the responsibility of all nurses and is vital when addressing
the challenges of the health care industry. Provide an example of how you would apply CQI in your
current or past position. If you are new to health care, select a nurse practice issue and discuss how
you would apply CQI to address the issue. Discuss a quality improvement method that could be used
to support CQI in your example.
Initial discussion question posts should be a minimum of 200 words and include at least two
references cited using APA format. Responses to peers or faculty should be 100-150 words and include
one reference. Refer to "RN-BSN Discussion Question Rubric" and "RN-BSN Participation Rubric,"
located in Class Resources, to understand the expectations for initial discussion question posts and
participation posts, respectively.
American Association of Colleges of Nursing Core Competencies for Professional Nursing Education
This assignment aligns to AACN Core Competency 5.1.
Answer:
Continuous quality improvement (CQI) is the responsibility of all nurses and is vital when
addressing the challenges of the health care industry. Provide an example of how you would
apply CQI in your current or past position. If you are new to health care, select a nurse
practice issue and discuss how you would apply CQI to address the issue. Discuss a quality
improvement method that could be used to support CQI in your example.
Continuous quality improvement (CQI) is a philosophy and attitude that allows for the
analysis of capabilities and different processes, with the aim of achieving repeated
improvement that contributes to achieving patient satisfaction, specifically in issues
related to health care and patient satisfaction (Hill et al., 2020).
The applications of continuous quality improvement are multiple. An example could be
when a registered nurse provides care in the emergency department of a health unit. She
detects that a problem that has occurred continuously is the long waiting times required
for patients to be seen, which caused dissatisfaction and discontent among them. To
apply CQI in this scenario, the first step would be the timely identification of the
problem (long waiting times to be seen in the emergency department). This would be
followed by a detailed analysis of the problem, which requires the search for
information about the problem in order to understand the causes that gave rise to it.
Specific data could be identified, such as waiting time, the number of patients seen per
day, the number of staff available for care each day, and how their work time is
organized.
In this case, it is essential to analyze and develop an improvement plan that contributes
to increasing patient satisfaction. The implementation of a triage system would allow
patients to be prioritized according to the severity of their health problems. Adjusting
staff schedules is a fundamental element to consider in order to improve care coverage
during times of greatest influx of staff to the emergency department.
In order to implement this plan, it is necessary to train staff so that they properly
understand the new triage system, and how schedules will be adjusted to ensure faster
care without decreasing quality. This process also requires continuous monitoring of its
effectiveness, checking how the plan improves and optimizes the waiting time for care.
