NR392 Quality Improvement in Nursing
Week 1 Course Project Milestone 1
Course Project Milestone 1 Guidelines
Purpose
To apply lessons in quality improvement in nursing to a real world nursing issue. This Course Project will use the Six Sigma DMAIC process.
Course Outcomes
The Course Project enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:
CO1: Identify the role of the BSN nurse in the quality improvement process as a member of the collaborative interprofessional team (PO2 & 7)
CO2: Discuss effective processes and strategies to improve quality in nursing (PO2 & 8)
Points
The entire project is worth 600 points. Milestone 1 is worth 100 points of this total.
Due Date
Submit your completed NR392 Milestone 1 by Sunday, 11:59 p.m. MT, end of Week 1.
Requirements and Guidelines
Quality improvement is an important issue in professional nursing today. In Milestone 1, the student will define a nursing care issue (not a workforce issue such as staffing) from a current or former workplace or clinical setting that could be impacted by improved quality. The student will then provide details about this issue, as well as explain the reason this issue was selected. Milestone 1 is due at the end of Week 1.
Download the required Milestone 1 Template (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..
You are required to complete the form using the productivity tools required by Chamberlain University, which is Microsoft Office Word 2013 (or later version), or Windows and Office 2011 (or later version) for MAC. You must save the file in the “.docx” format. Do NOT save as Word Pad. A later version of the productivity tool includes Office 365, which is available to Chamberlain students for FREE by downloading from the student portal at http://my.chamberlain.edu (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. Click on the envelope at the top of the page.
Carefully review the grading rubric criteria for Milestone 1 and type directly on your saved Milestone 1 Template.
The instructor will score Milestone 1 and provide feedback and a clear statement regarding the selected issue:
Accepted without revisions,
Accepted with revisions needed, OR
Not accepted.
Course Project Milestone 1 Template
Directions: Prior to completing this template, carefully review Course Project Milestone 1 Guidelines paying particular attention to how to name the document and all rubric requirements. After saving the document to your computer, type your answers directly on this template and save again. This assignment is due by Sunday end of Week 1 by 11:59 p.m. Mountain Time.
Your Name:__________________________
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Assignment Criteria |
Your Answers: (NOTE: See Milestone 1 Grading Rubric for details required in each area.) |
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Nursing Care Issue and Outcome 30 points |
Nursing Care Issue:
Outcome:
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Details of the Issue 45 points |
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Reason Issue Selected 25 points |
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