opportunity for a Quality Improvement initiative

Identify a patient care issue that provides an opportunity for a quality improvement initiative. a) Analyze a healthcare organization to determine the key characteristics (including organizational values, if applicable) impacting its quality of care, with a focus on the relationship between quality outcomes and healthcare reimbursement.

b) Articulate a quality outcome problem involving patient care and impacted by financial considerations that provide a quality improvement opportunity.

c) Articulate a proposed initiative, including recommendations of interprofessional strategies to improve the patient care problem.

d) Articulate a SMART goal that the leadership role can support in the planning, analysis, and implementation of the quality improvement initiative.

e) Assess a quality improvement model for its applicability and use to promote change with the quality improvement initiative.