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NURS 6052 Module 3 Discussion: Searching Databases Description: When you decide to purchase a new car, you first decide what is important to you. If mileage and dependability are the important factors, you will search for data focused more on these factors and less on color options and sound systems. The same holds true when searching for research evidence to guide your clinical inquiry and professional decisions. Developing a formula for an answerable, researchable question that addres...

NURS 6052 Module 3 Week 4-5 Assignment: Evidence-Based Project Part 2: Advanced Levels of Clinical Inquiry and Systematic Reviews Description: Your quest to purchase a new car begins with an identification of the factors important to you. As you conduct a search of cars that rate high on those factors, you collect evidence and try to understand the extent of that evidence. A report that suggests a certain make and model of automobile has high mileage is encouraging. But who produced that...

NURS 6052 Module 2 Quiz: Is it Quantitative, Qualitative, or Mixed Methods Description: An effective understanding and application of research requires an understanding of the underlying methodologies employed. This quiz will assess your understanding of the quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-method research methodologies.

NURS 6052 Module 2 Week 2-3 Assignment: Evidence-Based Project Part 1: Identifying Research Methodologies Description: Is there a difference between “common practice” and “best practice”? When you first went to work for your current organization, experienced colleagues may have shared with you details about processes and procedures. Perhaps you even attended an orientation session to brief you on these matters. As a “rookie,” you likely kept the nature of your questions to ...

NURS 6052 Module 1 Week 1 Assignment: Evidence-Based Practice and the Quadruple Aim Description: Healthcare organizations continually seek to optimize healthcare performance. For years, this approach was a three-pronged one known as the Triple Aim, with efforts focused on improved population health, enhanced patient experience, and lower healthcare costs. More recently, this approach has evolved to a Quadruple Aim by including a focus on improving the work life of healthcare providers. Ea...

NURS 6052 Module 1 Discussion: Where In the World Is Evidence-Based Practice Description: March 21, 2010, was not EBP’s date of birth, but it may be the date the approach “grew up” and left home to take on the world. When the Affordable Care Act was passed, it came with a requirement of empirical evidence. Research on EBP increased significantly. Application of EBP spread to allied health professions, education, healthcare technology, and more. Health organizations began to adopt ...

HCI 655 Topic 1 Assessment VLab: MEDITECH Expanse Getting Started & Acute Activities (Patient Care Services and Physician Care Manager) Description: The purpose of this assignment is to access patient electronic health records (EHRs) using the MEDITECH EHR application. Complete the VLab activities and quizzes for this topic. When opening the VLab activity, note that some activities are gated, meaning you must complete the previous activities frst. Grading for this assignment will be...

NOTE: This package contains the following files. - NUR 630 Topic 1 Assignment: Visual Model - NUR 630 Topic 1 Discussion Questions 1 & 2 - NUR 630 Topic 2 Assignment: Healthcare Culture - NUR 630 Topic 2 Discussion Questions 1 & 2 - NUR 630 Topic 3 Discussion Questions 1 & 2 - NUR 630 Topic 4 Assignment: CLC Quality Models ........... (CONTINUED)

NOTE: This package contains the following files - NUR 630 Topic 1 Assignment: Visual Model - NUR 630 Topic 2 Assignment: Healthcare Culture - NUR 630 Topic 4 Assignment: CLC Quality Models - NUR 630 Topic 5 Assignment: Benchmark Outcome and Process Measures - NUR 630 Topic 7 Assignment: Benchmark Hospital Associated Infectio .......... (CONTINUED)

NUR 630 (Performance Improvement and Quality in Healthcare) Topic 8 Assignment: Overview of Quality in Healthcare Description: The purpose of this assignment is to apply the concepts you have learned in this course to a situation you have encountered. Choose one quality or patient safety concern with which you are familiar and that you have not yet discussed in this course. In a 1,250-1,500 word essay, reflect on what you have learned in this course by applying the concepts to the quality ...

NOTE: This package contains the following files - NUR 630 Topic 1 Discussion Questions 1 & 2 - NUR 630 Topic 2 Discussion Questions 1 & 2 - NUR 630 Topic 3 Discussion Questions 1 & 2 - NUR 630 Topic 4 Discussion Questions 1 & 2 - NUR 630 Topic 5 DQs 1 & 2 - NUR 630 Topic 6 DQs 1 & 2 - NUR 630 Topic 7 DQs 1 & 2 - NUR 630 Topic 8 DQs 1 & 2

NUR 630 (Performance Improvement and Quality in Healthcare) Topic 8 Discussion Question 2 Description: The concept of a "Just Culture" has a number of key elements. Choose the two elements that you feel are the most difficult to achieve and provide one strategy for each that will make them achievable.

NUR 630 (Performance Improvement and Quality in Healthcare) Topic 8 Discussion Question 1 Description: What two elements do you believe play the most significant role in sustaining change and why? Support your answer with one or two references.

NUR 630 (Performance Improvement and Quality in Healthcare) Topic 7 Discussion Question 2 Description: You are going to present data that has been collected to your administrative group. The focus is on outcome measures and the data collected is unplanned readmission rates at two different hospitals. What format would you choose to display your data and why? What information would you include with the data?

NUR 630 (Performance Improvement and Quality in Healthcare) Topic 7 Discussion Question 1 Description: Identify at least two stakeholder agency reporting sources. How do these external reporting groups contribute to or hinder CQI?

NUR 630 (Performance Improvement and Quality in Healthcare) Topic 7 Assignment: Benchmark - Hospital Associated Infections Data Description: The purpose of this assignment is to examine health care data on hospital-associated infections and determine the best methods for presenting the data to stakeholders. Use the scenario below and the "Hospital Associated Infections Data" Excel spreadsheet to complete the assignment. Scenario You have been tasked with displaying Centers for Medi...

NUR 630 (Performance Improvement and Quality in Healthcare) Topic 6 Discussion Question 2 Description: Describe at least two limitations to both primary and secondary data and how understanding those limitations can improve your future CQI work.

NUR 630 (Performance Improvement and Quality in Healthcare) Topic 6 Discussion Question 1 Description: What is the difference between primary and secondary data? How can primary and secondary source data be used to drive CQI? Provide a specific example of how each source can be used to drive CQI.

NUR 630 (Performance Improvement and Quality in Healthcare) Topic 5 Discussion Question 2 Description: Identify which one of the following approaches you would choose to assist in determining and measuring outcomes: FMEA, Pareto principle, and control charts. Describe the best approach and explain why you chose it.