Assessment 3 Instructions: Outcome Measures, Issues, and Opportunities

 

Draft a 6-page report on outcome measures, issues, and opportunities for the executive leadership team or applicable stakeholder group.

Introduction

Note: Each assessment in this course builds on the work you completed in the previous assessment. Therefore, you must complete the assessments in this course in the order in which they are presented.

As a nurse leader, you may be called upon to submit a detailed report to your executive leadership team and key stakeholders that describes a quality or safety problem and its effects on outcomes, fully supported by relevant and credible data.

This assessment provides an opportunity to draft such a report in which you can call attention to quality and safety issues and opportunities, effectively support your position, and lay out a plan for change.

This assessment is based on the executive summary you prepared in the previous assessment.

Preparation

Your executive summary captured the attention and interest of the executive leadership team, who have asked you to provide them with a detailed report addressing outcome measures and performance issues or opportunities, including a strategy for ensuring that all aspects of patient care are measured.

As you prepare to complete this assessment, you may want to think about other related issues to deepen your understanding or broaden your viewpoint. You are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of your professional community. Note that these questions are for your own development and exploration and do not need to be completed or submitted as part of your assessment.

·        How might you engage stakeholders to help develop, implement, and sustain a vision to actually change and improve patient outcomes?

·        What arguments might be most effective in obtaining agreement and support?

·        What recommendations would you make to implement a proposed plan for change?

The following resources are required to complete the assessment.

·        APA Style Paper Template [DOCX]. Use this template for your report.

Requirements

Note: The requirements outlined below correspond to the grading criteria in the Outcome Measures, Issues, and Opportunities Scoring Guide. Be sure that your written analysis addresses each point, at a minimum. You may also want to read the Outcome Measures, Issues, and Opportunities Scoring Guide and Guiding Questions: Outcome Measures, Issues, and Opportunities [DOCX] to better understand how each criterion will be assessed.

Drafting the Report

·        Analyze organizational functions, processes, and behaviors in high-performing health care organizations or practice settings.

·        Determine how organizational functions, processes, and behaviors affect outcome measures associated with the systemic problem identified in your gap analysis.

·        Identify the quality and safety outcomes and associated measures relevant to the performance gap you intend to close. Create a spreadsheet showing the outcome measures.

·        Identify performance issues or opportunities associated with particular organizational functions, processes, and behaviors and the quality and safety outcomes they affect.

·        Outline a strategy, using a selected change model, for ensuring that all aspects of patient care are measured and that knowledge is shared with the staff.

Writing and Supporting Evidence

·        Write coherently and with purpose, for a specific audience, using correct grammar and mechanics.

·        Integrate relevant and credible sources of evidence to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.

Additional Requirements

Format your document using APA style.

·        Use the APA paper template linked above. Be sure to include:

o   A title page and reference page. An abstract is not required.

o   A running head on all pages.

o   Appropriate section headings.

o   Properly-formatted citations and references.

·        Your report should be 6 pages in length, not including the title page and reference page.

·        Add your Quality and Safety Outcomes spreadsheet to your report as an addendum.

·        A spreadsheet is required for this assessment. There is a sample in Capella Resources.

·        Insert the spreadsheet in the appendix (found after the reference page) & make sure to refer the reader to it in your narrative on outcomes and measures

·        Example of data to insert on spread sheet (need both; outcomes & measures)

 

Resources: Outcome Measured and Process Improvement

 

The resources provided here are optional. You may use other resources of your choice to prepare for this assessment; however, you will need to ensure that they are appropriate, credible, and valid. The MSN Program Library Research Guide can help direct your research, and the Supplemental Resources and Research Resources, both linked from the left navigation menu in your courseroom, provide additional resources to help support you.

The following resources provide context and background information that will help you with this assessment.

·        Fessele, K, Yendro, S., & Mallory, G. (2014). Setting the bar: Developing quality measures and education programs to define evidence-based, patient-centered, high-quality care. Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing, 18, 7–11.

o   In this article, the authors discuss how one group developed and then tested relevant quality measures.

·        Goll, C. & Cahill, S. (2014). Leading the way: Enculturating the value of process improvement. American Nurse Today, 9(8), 1–4.

o   In this article, the authors contend that the importance of a culture of accountability and ownership is crucial to attaining organizational outcomes.

·        Huffstutler, C.D. & Thomsen, D. (2015). A framework for performance excellence and success. Frontiers of Health Science Management, 32(1), 45–50.

o   In this article, the authors present a framework that describes the behaviors and beliefs of high-performing organizations.

·        Masica, A. L., Richter, K. M., Convery, P., & Haydar, Z. (2009). Linking Joint Commission inpatient core measures and National Patient Safety Goals with evidence. Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings, 22(2), 103–111.

o   In this article, the authors summarize the relationships between Joint Commission core measures, safety goals, and patient outcomes.

·        The Joint Commission (n.d.). National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI). http://nursingandndnqi.weebly.com/index.html

o   Explore this resource and examine the indicators related to the effects of nursing on safety, quality, and outcomes.

·        Vila Health: Quality and Safety Gap Analysis.

o   The following interactive exercise suggests an approach to drafting a detailed report for executive leaders addressing outcome measures and performance issues or opportunities, which may help you with the assessment.

 

Recourses: Change Theory

The resources provided here are optional. You may use other resources of your choice to prepare for this assessment; however, you will need to ensure that they are appropriate, credible, and valid. The MSN Program Library Research Guide can help direct your research, and the Supplemental Resources and Research Resources, both linked from the left navigation menu in your courseroom, provide additional resources to help support you.

·        Mitchell, G. (2013). Selecting the best theory to implement planned change. Nursing Management, 20(1), 32–37.

o   This article may help you in outlining a strategy for change.

 

Resources: Capella Resources

 

The resources provided here are optional. You may use other resources of your choice to prepare for this assessment; however, you will need to ensure that they are appropriate, credible, and valid. The MSN Program Library Research Guide can help direct your research, and the Supplemental Resources and Research Resources, both linked from the left navigation menu in your courseroom, provide additional resources to help support you.

·        Guiding Questions: Outcome Measures, Issues, and Opportunities.

o   This document includes questions to consider and additional guidance on how to successfully complete the assessment.

·        Example Outcome Measures Spreadsheet.

 

 

 

 

Competencies Measured

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

·        Competency 1: Analyze quality and safety outcomes from an administrative and systems perspective.

o   Identify typical quality and safety outcomes and their associated measures.

·        Competency 3: Determine how specific organizational functions, policies, processes, procedures, norms, and behaviors can be used to build reliability and high-performing organizations.

o   Analyze organizational functions, processes, and behaviors in high-performing organizations.

o   Determine how organizational functions, processes, and behaviors support and affect outcome measures for an organization.

o   Identify performance issues or opportunities associated with particular organizational functions, processes, and behaviors and the quality and safety outcomes they affect.

·        Competency 4: Synthesize the various aspects of the nurse leader’s role in developing, promoting, and sustaining a culture of quality and safety.

o   Outline a strategy for ensuring that all aspects of patient care are measured and that knowledge is shared with the staff.

·        Competency 5: Communicate effectively with diverse audiences, in an appropriate form and style, consistent with applicable organizational, professional, and scholarly standards.

o   Write coherently and with purpose, for a specific audience, using correct grammar and mechanics.

o   Integrate relevant and credible sources of evidence to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.

 

N.B     PLEASE address all assessment instructions and scoring guide

APA Style Seventh Edition Required (APA Style Paper Template [DOCX]

A spreadsheet is required for this assessment           

 

Thank you,