Comment 1

Continuous quality improvement (CQI) is taken very serious at my organization, as I am sure it is taken serious at my fellow classmates facilities. CQI is a quality management process that encourages the health care team members to continuous ask “how are we doing” and “can we get better” (Moran, 2012). CQI is for the safety and education of the patients and staff members. We report out each morning about 30-day readmissions in house or patients at high risk for a 30-day readmit. We have a team that identifies the trends of the readmission predictors in order to identified patients currently in house at high risk for 30-day readmission. After the identification of the high risk patients, a structured discharge plan is put in place. Education on the disease process and discharge instructions is immediately started with the patient and care givers. Outside resources are immediately identified, such as home health and hospice, and the patient is given the patient choice form to pick the company that they would like to use on discharge. On discharge, the patient will know their disease process and how to manage at home. The patient will state what medications they are taking and what they are taking them for.
The patient will also state what time of day the medication is due. The patient will receive a phone call within forty eight hours after discharge from the hospital to make sure the patient continues to understand all discharge instructions and medications.

Comment 2

Continuous quality improvement, CQI, is a viewpoint or attitude for evaluating processes and improving them to attain customer satisfaction (Huber, 2014). CQI focus in healthcare is usually related to improving patient outcomes (Conner, 2014).

There is no delaying that hospitals need to deal a brand in today’s medical world. I can speak for the organization where our brand is high-quality care at low cost. A part of growing a brand that delivers high-quality care consistently it is vital to continue to maintain an emphasis/focus on identified quality improvement initiatives. To create a hospital culture supportive of quality improvement, respondents stressed the importance of hospital leadership being in the vanguard to engage nurses and other staff. As a representative of an accrediting organization said, “For any quality improvement project to be successful, the literature shows that support has to trickle down from the top (Draper, Felland, Liebhaber, & Melichar, 2008).

The chief nursing officer, CNO, is passionate about the delivery of high-quality care, she talks about it each month at nursing leadership, and it is a constant in my staff meeting minutes. It is vital that we empower the nurses who are delivering the care at the front line to buy into initiatives. We have encouraged staff to participate in hospital-wide performance improvement and report out our progress as a healthcare system in unit councils.

One example of how we are applying CQI in our current practice is through our CAUTI initiative. We have developed an education package for the staff which was accompanied by a nurse-driven protocol for patients that have a foley. If we have a patient who comes through the emergency department, they need to meet specific criteria before a foley can be inserted. We have seen great successes in this project, and the results have been extremely positive.

Assignment 2 meets the following course objectives:

• Apply a sociological perspective to the social world.
• Analyze contemporary social issues using the sociological imagination and use sociological theories and concepts to analyze everyday life.
• Demonstrate the ability to identify, locate, and retrieve information related to the topics in the course.

Purpose

The primary goal of this exercise is to apply your developing sociological knowledge and skills to the analysis of a current event.

Writing Expectations

This should be 4-6 pages long, double-spaced, 12pt font (arial or times new roman), with 1″ margins. You must include a cover page, running header, major heading and subheadings to identify each section; all according to APA requirements.  

Instructions:

Choosing a Current Event. A current event refers to something that is happening in the world at present and they are usually described on the news and in mass media. You must choose a report (written, from the radio, or televised) of an event that has been reported on within 3 months of the assignment deadline. Remember, the event you choose must have some relevance to the study of society, and you must properly cite the source from which you got your report. DO NOT include more than two articles or reports. 

Describe the Current Event. Second, you will need to provide a brief summary of the current event. This should include details such as location, timing (i.e is this an ongoing event, does it appear to be a one time event, is this an example of an event that happens frequently), people involved, and any analysis offered by the report(er).

Analyzing the Current Event. The final step in the process is conducting an analysis of the current event using knowledge you have gained from the course to-date. The most important thing here is that the analysis should not just be your opinion about the current event, but grounded in sociological theory and prior research. You will need to use at least 4 sociological concepts covered in this course to analyze the current event (i.e. social construction, stratification, social control, crime, deviance). (hint: sociological concepts should be clearly identified, defined and then applied; any paraphrasing or direct quotes used from another source should include APA formatted in-text citations and a full citation at the end of the essay).  

 

1) **********minimum 5 full pages ( not words)**************************** (cover or reference page not included)

2)¨**********APA norms  (All paragraphs must be narrative and cited in the text- each paragraphs)

3)********** It will be verified by Turnitin and SafeAssign 

4) References not older than 5 years

 Mandatory

5) Each answer must be identified according to the question number. Check the list of questions. Your answer should start objectively answering the question

Question:

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You will hand in one formal paper about a nursing theory

 Theory of Comfort by Katharine Kolcaba 

Questions:

1) Introduction

    a) Identification of theorist including a brief background of the theorist (accomplishments, career, accolades, research efforts)

2) Analysis of basic components/concepts and major relationships in the theory

      a) Briefly discuss the theory’s core concepts

      b) Use a secondary source that covers the selected nursing theory, you must have a minimum of 3 references from nursing literature (only one from a non-article source like a secondary source/text) to support your discussion in this section.

3)  Relevance

        a)  Personal relevance if any of the authors described (connect the theorist to the theory) 

       b) Relevance to healthcare and the client discussed (connect the theory to healthcare today) 

       c) Application to research and/or practice provided (connect the theory to current research/practice) 

       d) Use at least two peer-reviewed/research articles that detail the nursing theory being applied in clinical

      e) Practice/research, and summarize key findings of both articles including results and implications for future practice

4)  Summary: Include theory strengths and limitation in the summar

REQUIREMENTS  

1. Select a Speak Up brochure developed by The Joint Commission. Follow this link to the proper website: https://www.jointcommission.org/topics/speak_up_campaigns.aspx 

The Topic I selected is REDUCING FALL RISK, pLEASE WRITE MY PAPER using the review on the topic i selected from the above link.

2. Write a short paper reviewing the brochure. Use the Grading Criteria (below) to structure your critique, and include current nursing or healthcare research to support your critique.  a. The length of the paper is to be no greater than three pages, double spaced, excluding title page and reference page. Extra pages will not be read and will not count toward your grade.  

3. This assignment will be graded on quality of information presented, use of citations, and use of Standard English grammar, sentence structure, and organization based on the required components. 

 4. Create the review using Microsoft Word 2007 (a part of Microsoft Office 2007), the required format for all Chamberlain documents. You can tell that the document is saved as a MS Word 2007 document because it will end in “.docx.”   

 5. APA format is required with both a title page and reference page. Use the required components of the review as Level 1 headers (upper- and lowercase, bold, centered).  

a. Introduction 

 b. Summary of Brochure  

c. Evaluation of Brochure  

d. Conclusion

 

Discussion Question:

Review the most current Patient Safety Goals (http://www.jointcommission.org/standards_information/npsgs.aspx). Find a research article that discusses one of the goals. Summarize the article and explain how your day to day practice has changed since the implementation of this goal. Has the change had an effect? Explain.

Your initial posting should be 400 words in length and utilize at least one scholarly source other than the textbook