Quality Improvement
respond to the following topics related to quality improvement problems.
Identify a quality related problem on your unit, in your organization, or your practice area that is found on the IHI or Joint Commission websites. Do not use Central Line-associated Bloodstream Infection (CLABSI) ) or Catheter-associated Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTI).
Describe the best practices or recommended guidelines related to the problem you identified.
Explain the financial impact of this problem on the organization and on the patient.
Describe how you will implement your project using the IHI PDSA model. Describe a project you could implement to address the identified problem using the IHI PDSA model.
Explain the quality improvement measures you could use to track the quality improvement project.
Determine what quality improvement tool or tools would be most useful to help analyze and monitor the problem (e.g., run chart, flow¬chart, Pareto chart).
Identify a leadership theory or model that you would use to implement your project.
Support your responses with examples and information from library resources, textbook and lectures.
Sample Solution
Yes, there are several professional guidelines related to this clinical topic. The American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association (AHA) both recommend troponin testing for diagnosis of unstable angina and non-ST elevation myocardial infarction. Additionally, the European Society of Cardiology guidelines also state that high-sensitivity troponin tests should be used for early detection of cardiac ischemia or myocardial injury.
Stage 4 lessons within the relatively new curriculum of Computer Science, and how literacy and numeracy can support learning in order to provide a fully inclusive learning environment.
The delivery school in Sherborne where I am employed is rated ‘Good’ by OFSTED (2017). It converted to an Academy in 2012 and holds approximately 1580 students aged 11-18. It has a relatively low number of students who have English as an additional language and the free school meal/pupil premium percentage is approximately 13% lower than national average (Gov.UK). For this assignment, I will use my Year 10 Computer Science class. This is a predominately male class with one female student. Their target grades range from grade 3 – 8, with the majority of students at the upper end of this range. The data for this class can be seen in Appendix A.
The subject content for this assignment is Python Programming, looking at how the incorporation of numeracy and literacy supports learning in this topic. All subjects to some degree use literacy and numeracy. Particularly having awareness of this in Computer Science is very important. Computer Science especially ‘has deep links with mathematics’ (DfE, 2013). Students are required as part of the OCR (Oxford and Cambridge) GCSE Computer Science Specification to complete a programming task which involves planning, reviewing and evaluating their programs. Lacking the basic literacy and numeracy skills would hinder students’ ability to complete this task.
The OCR syllabus states students must be able to apply Computer Science related mathematics confidently (OCR, 2018, p.8) and have the understanding of key mathematical elements laid out in Appendix B. In the aims of the National Curriculum for Computing it says that students must be able to ‘understand and apply the fundamental principles and concepts of computer science, including abstraction, logic, algorithms and data representation’ (DfE, 2013). This not only relates to the programming activities, but the syllabus clearly lays out that it includes both practical and theoretical contexts, and the use of computing-related mathematics within those contexts (OCR, 2018, p.31).
A detailed break-down of each lesson for this assignment can be seen in appendix. All the activities support literacy and numeracy (Appendix xx) . These lessons were conducted o