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| Five General Principles of Quality Improvement |
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1. benefit patients and all customers
2. participation of everyone
3. work processes
4. based on data
5. continuous process |
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| Quality Improvement Process |
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1. ID consumer needs
2. Assemble a team
3. Collect data
4. Establish outcomes
5. Discuss plans
6. Evaluate |
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F: Find a process to improve
O: Organize
C: Clarify current knowledge
U: Understand sources of variation
S: Select process
P: Plan the improvement
D: Do the improvement
C: Check the results
A: Act to hold the gain |
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| decrease variance in practice |
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| Critical (clinical) pathways |
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| outlines expected course of treatment |
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| standardizes approach to reach outcome |
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| baseline for quality of discipline- specific care |
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-- Labels that represent clinical judgments about real or potential health problems
-- Each diagnosis contains a definition, defining characteristics, and related factors |
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Vocabulary of treatments that nurses
perform in all settings and specialties
Physiological and psychosocial
Individual and group
Intervention and prevention |
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--Vocabulary to define client status
following nursing interventions
--Measure the effects of intervention
--Standardized outcomes for use across all
practice settings |
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Used to collect and analyze data for future determination of risk
NOT confined to only JACHO reportable events
Completed in timely manner
Accurate, objective, complete and factual
**subpoena only if in the medical record.
**kept with internal hospital correspondence |
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