Learning Plan 5 Quality Improvement Initiative Identify a business that has recently launched a quality improvement initiative (Harley Davidson would be just one of many examples). Your business could be one that is primarily product-providing or one that is primarily service-providing. Do some independent research in order to provide an overview of this initiative and the results of their efforts. The overview should take the form of a two-page paper. Within that assignment‚ cite examples of any
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Plan Part I Julie Mercer NUR/588 May 27‚ 2013 Cynthia M. Hughes‚ DHA‚ MSN‚ BSN‚ RN‚ C QI Plan Part I For more than a decade‚ Via Christi has sponsored a variety of initiatives designed to improve the quality of care provided. These efforts have engaged staff‚ patients and physicians at all levels within the hospital to measure and improve the quality and safety of patient care. At times these initiatives have seen success and failures‚ but with the recent push for our “big aim” quality is the
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HCS/588 Measuring Performance Standards Quality improvement is an organizational approach to improve quality of care and services using a specified set of principles and methodologies. Principles of quality improvement are measurements‚ which the data is used to improve care‚ focusing on the important patient outcomes and consumer needs‚ being involved with participants‚ such as encouraging direct participation in teams by those individuals who implement the processes being evaluated. Ensuring
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S. B. (2008). The healthcare quality book: Vision‚ strategy‚ and tools. (2nd ed.). Health Administration Press: Chicago‚ IL. Quality Improvement Processes and Approaches “Form follows function‚” a concept founded in the field of architecture‚ describes the importance of understanding what you want to do before you determine how you are going to do it. The premise behind the principle also applies when an organization is deciding what quality improvement process or approach to adopt.
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Running head: QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PAPER Quality Improvement Paper Shellee D. Blue University of Phoenix MGT 449 May 5‚ 2008 A Description of the Chosen Process The process I chose that needs improvement in my organization is bookkeeping. We need to expand bookkeeping and create a department for it instead of just having one bookkeeper that is over loaded with all the work. An “As-Is” Flow Chart T The Relationship of the Process to the Organization’s Strategic Plan
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Electronic Surveillance of Employees Balewa Sample Roreita Walker Law and Ethics in the Business Environment
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referencing these three methods. Answer According to the Study Guide there are three ways to introduce Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI): 1. The quiet or whisper launch. It is suggested that “this is an effective way to begin if the staff or an organization are very cynical and do not trust new management programs.[1] The senior team launches their CQI program without any form of public announcements and deals with the better part of its implementation. 2.
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HOSPITAL QUALITY: INGREDIENTS FOR SUCCESS— OVERVIEW AND LESSONS LEARNED Jack A. Meyer‚ Sharon Silow-Carroll‚ Todd Kutyla‚ Larry S. Stepnick‚ and Lise S. Rybowski July 2004 ABSTRACT: Hospitals across the country are searching for ways to improve quality of care and promote effective quality improvement strategies. This research study‚ by members of the economic and social research institute‚ identifies and describes the key factors that contributed to the success of four high-performing hospitals
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Organizational Quality Improvement Plan Part III Lauren Dickman HCS/588 December 13‚ 2010 Jennifer Culotta Methods and information technology for quality improvement Various methodologies exist for the integration of quality improvement strategies into performance improvement measures. With concepts of total quality management (TQM) and quality improvement (QI) being introduced to health care organizations; administrators have had to decide which methodology is right for the organization
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“ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE OF EMPLOYEES” Casey Jones Strayer University Professor: Sheritta M. Woodruff Leg 500: Law‚ Ethics‚ and Corporate Governance Date: 4/27/2011 Abstract This document discusses how employees in an organization can have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the workplace and whether or not it would make any difference if an employee held a conversation behind closed door or in an area where his conversation could be heard. This document also takes a critical look at
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