Performance
Measurement PowerPoint Slideshow:
Guidelines
Purpose
The purpose of this assignment is tolocate
and compare performance measurement data on common health conditions for the
hospitals in your area. You will investigate the Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services websites and locate hospital compare data for hospitals
within a 50 mile radius of the community where you are working or had your
prelicensure clinical experiences.You will prepare a PowerPoint presentation
and share the results of your findings. Opportunities for improving performance
measurement indicators will be shared.
Course Outcomes
Completion of this assignment enables the
student to meet the following course outcomes.
CO 1: Apply
leadership concepts, skills, and decision making in the provision of high-quality
nursing care, healthcare team management, and the oversight and accountability
for care delivery in a variety of settings. (PO 2)
CO 2: Implement
patient safety and quality improvement initiatives within the context of the
interprofessional team through communicationand relationship building. (PO 3)
CO 3:
Participate in the development and implementation of imaginative and creative
strategies to enable systems to change. (PO 7)
CO 7: Apply
leadership concepts in the development and initiation of effective plans for
the microsystems and system-wide practice improvements that will improve the
quality of healthcare delivery. (POs 2 and 3)
CO 8: Apply
concepts of quality and safety using structure, process and outcome measures to
identify clinical questions as the beginning process of changing current
practice. (PO 8)
Due Dates
This assignmentis to be submitted to the
Dropboxby Sunday, 11:59 p.m. MT, end of Week 6.
Points
This assignment is worth 200 points.
Directions
1. Review information found on the following website related to hospital
compare.cms.gov/Medicare/Quality-Initiatives-Patient-Assessment-Instruments/HospitalQualityInits/HospitalCompare.html>http://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Quality-Initiatives-Patient-Assessment-Instruments/HospitalQualityInits/HospitalCompare.html
2. Read the information carefully and then locate the following website..medicare.gov/hospitalcompare>http://www.medicare.gov/hospitalcompare
3. Search for hospitals within a 50 mile radius of the community where you
are working or had your prelicensure clinical experiences. Type in your zip
code. Select
your hospital andtwo others. Select hospitals/facilities and choose compare. If you live in a remote area and there are no hospitals listed within a 50 mile
radius, select a zip code for a family member or a close friend who does not
live near you. The idea is to review comparative data.
4. Click on the following topics to learn more.
a. Survey of patients experiences
b. Timely and effective care (focus your search on two of the conditions
that apply to services provided at the hospitals)
c. Readmissions, complications, and deaths
5. Carefully read the information
provided.
6. Develop a PowerPoint slideshow consisting of 810 slides. Include
the following, keeping in mind what all this data means.
a. Title slide with information pertinent to the course.
b. List reasons to recommend hospital care to consumers (patients).
c. List reasons torecommend hospital compare to staff who may seek
employment.
d. Summarize patient experiences data for each hospital.
e. Summarize timely and effective care data for two conditions.
f.
Summarize data for readmissions
or complications and deaths.
g. List recommendations for improving data for one selected facility.
h. Summarize what you learned from this experience.
7.
Develop PowerPoint slides to include
criteria listed above. For those not familiar with the development of a
PowerPoint slideshow, the following link may be helpful.
8. Submit your PowerPoint slideshowto the Dropbox.