BSN410 Healthcare Delivery and Quality Outcomes

Module 7 Assignment  

Final Project

Health Care Priority Issue

For our final project, we will examine how priority healthcare issues should be examined by nursing.  We will select a key healthcare priority issue and a population. You will find articles that describe nursing interventions designed to improve patient outcomes for your population and healthcare priority issue.  Finally, you will discuss why Quality Improvement is important for patients and then you will describe how nursing values can be used to help improve patient care. Write a 5-7 page APA style paper (excluding title page and reference page). No more than seven pages of content will be accepted. A minimum of five scholarly references will be required.

Access the Priority Areas for National Action: Transforming Health Quality and read Chapter 3: Priority Areas for Quality Improvement, pages 41-45. 

Select ONE priority area (priority healthcare issue) and identify a population you would like to explore.  Conduct research to locate information to write about the following:

Specifically, the paper should include the following components:

Health Care Priority Issue

Identifies a healthcare priority issue. Describes the healthcare priority issue, the population it involves, and significance of the healthcare issue by using specific facts and details. Ends with a clearly worded purpose statement.

Rationale and Importance to Nursing

Discuss the rationale for choosing the priority healthcare issue and describe why this issue is important to nursing.  Provides details.

Nursing Interventions and Outcomes

Clearly identify two nursing actions or interventions designed to improve care that is measured in patient outcomes.  From two nursing articles, select a total of two (no more or less than two) key nursing interventions that improved patient outcomes and explain how the nursing interventions improved each of the two patient outcomes.  Provide details.

Quality Improvement Initiative and Patient Care

Using the interventions from the articles/studies, describe how you would recommend a Quality Initiative (QI) to improve patient care within a healthcare facility (hospital) and explain why this QI would be important to implement for patients. Provides details.

Nursing, Quality, and Outcomes

Discuss why it is important for nursing to be involved in quality initiatives and explain how two professional nursing values can help to improve patient care. Provides details