PDSA Summary

Several measures were utilized in order to assess possible symptomatology and possible contributing factors to Mr. M’s overall mental health. AF-K was involved in the assessment and simultaneously completed the caregiver portion of each measure.

It’s also necessary to correctly evaluate and measure health care policy in good time to ensure the success of the process. Evaluation is the stage after the policy implementation as it is effective to evaluate the policy effectiveness of accomplishing policy objectives (Sheila, 1994-2015). Along with all of this it should also be noted that, the evaluation will be based on formalized outcome indicators and measures. An evaluation plan should also have the following things:

The model for evaluating educators, known as the Teacher Performance Assessment or for short the edTPA. New York began imposing the new assessment in 2014 (Baker, 2012). The edTPA builds on decades of teacher performance assessments development and research regarding teaching skills and practices that help educators improve the overall effect of student learning. The edTPA is a performance-based, subject -specific assessment and support system used by teacher preparation programs throughout the United States in order to emphasize, measure, and support the skills and knowledge that all teacher need when working in the classroom. The edTPA is a subject-specific assessment that includes versions for 27 teaching fields. The edTPA has an assessment fee of three hundred dollars that has to be submitted at the time of registration. The assessment focused on three common

The third part of the action plan will be to assess the progress of changes. This requires measuring current and future performance against past performance, which will need to be assessed more in depth than the initial tracer patient audit. The last portion of the corrective action plan not only assesses the change, but might also include further revisions to the change in policy and procedures if it is found that performance is inconsistent with the standards set forth by the Joint Commission. The part of the plan has four parts that consist of:

In order to evaluate the improvements from these interventions, the baseline chart review was compared to a chart review conducted 2 weeks after the project initiation. Results indicated that documentation became more detailed, objective and factual and hand-offs reports also became standard with incorporation of Kardex and reflected increased accuracy.

As assessment is usually conducted at two phases in any project. (Burt, 2005) First it is conducted to

The improvement plan gets carried out with daily work with a team through the PDSA cycle. The PDSA cycle stands for Plan, DO, Study, and Act. The PDSA is where we do testing on data to day. We take the idea and place it in the PDSA cycle, where we plan it, do it, study it, and then we act. We change the plan base on the feedback we get in the study step (Lloyd, 2009). In regard to Mr. B’s scenario, the aim of the improvement plan is to screen each patient that comes come to the emergency room for Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT). We will have a DVT flowchart available to the nurse to use to ask each patient question that may be related to signs and symptoms of DVT. We can also have standing

The thing that surprises me most about the SDAP program are the students who are both very determined in their own ways. They might learn from me that they can have a friend to rely on and talk to. Even the first time meeting one of the students he seemed very comfortable with me. By the end of our session he told me that he really enjoyed hanging out with me and called me his friend. I always look forwards to spending time with him.

A program evaluation offers a way to determine if adjustments are needed to improve upon the project in order for it to remain successful. Furthermore, the project evaluation team will analyze and measure each component of the outcome, input, and process in order to clarify the program’s objectives and goals. Thus creating a framework of evaluation methods and questions in addition to setting up a timeline for the evaluation activities will assist in the evaluation (CDC, 2011; HRSA, n.d.; McGonigle & Mastrian, 2015). The goal of outcome measures is to describe the overall performance of the process; therefore, outcome measurement will determine the program cost-effectiveness, attribution, and efficiency (CDC, 2012; HRSA, n.d.; McGonigle & Mastrian, 2015). There will be additional evaluation concerning the input measures, which are the resources that were put into the process. Lastly, the appraisal of process measures will provide data regarding the performance each course of action involved in the implantation of the project (HRSA, n.d.). After a thorough evaluation of the project, recommendations and the dissemination of results will be prepared and

A policy cycle starts by identifying issues, and then moves through to analysis and implementation to evaluate the policy’s effects. There are three main stages in which a policy outline moves through. This is where an idea is developed, then acted on and the results are checked. (Althaus et al. 2007)

As a general rule, these guidelines are an acceptable method to further the process. These subsets allow for the further identification and streamlining of the process. This series of processes allows for the identification of variables that could develop into

To implement change in a heath care setting, a PDSA concept will be used. Langley developed the PDSA cycle to describe the importance’s that the change and the developing of these crucial changes which will hopefully help lead to the improvements (Langley et al., 2009) (see appendix 2) for details. The National Health Service use PDSA and will implement the necessary

The rise of nurse practitioners is the direct result of a shortage in primary providers. The passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and Americans’ demand for quality and affordable health care in the 21st century also are contributing factors. The shortage of physicians is still problematic today, as there has been a steady decline in medical students and residents responding to the need for primary-care providers in family practice and internal medicine. However, the number of NPs continues to increase; their “per-capita supply is projected to increase annually by an average of 9 percent” (Naylor & Kurtzman, 2010, p. 894). This physician-shortage trend and increase in NPs are also observed in education. Naylor and Kurtzman (2010) found there was a 3 percent decrease in

My experience in this course has given me a boarder knowledge on how to implement a change project. Performance improvement projects are used to create a safe and efficient delivery of care to patients.

Disa is a third party administrator for drug, alcohol and background screening and we are the largest in the US who specialize in oil and gas industry. What really sets Disa apart from our competitors is that we have our contractor consortium programs, these programs are designed to keep illicit drug users who are repeat offenders from job hopping and still making it on to one of your sites which could potentially create a liability for you and your company if something where to ever happen. We manage this program by working with you to establish what your drug testing and background requirements are going to be going forward, we then work with the contractor companies who are sending contractors to your site and set them up with the appropriate