Quality Improvement Assignment
- Define healthcare quality in your own words and apply it to the work of one major quality pioneer as listed in the link below (Shewhart, Deming, Juran, Ishikawa, Crosby, Feigenbaum, etc.). https://sites.google.com/a/qualindustri.com/qual/quality/the-pioneers-of-quality
- Describe Central Line Associated Blood Stream Infections (CLABSIs) and explain how your definition of healthcare quality might apply to central line associated blood stream infections (CLABSIs) also briefly explain nurses’ experiences with CLABSIs.
- Locate 5 sources of scholarly evidence published within the last five years that describe potential solutions or interventions that you can implement as part of a quality improvement plan for CLABSIs. A scholarly piece of evidence could be a journal, government agency, white paper, or professional organization. Synthesize the information in the 5 articles. Note that a synthesis of information is not a summary of each source. A synthesis involves critical reading to make connections between sources, compare the similarities and differences, highlight important information, and present new ideas based on your interpretation of the information.
