Post by annelieseRN on Mar 11, 2012 9:39:32 GMT -5
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Continuous Quality Improvement. It is both internalized and externalized. It is a system that seeks to improve the provision of services with an emphasis on future results. Like total quality management, CQI uses a set of statistical tools to understand subsystems and uncover problems, but its emphasis is on maintaining quality in the future, not just cont
rolling a process.
It focuses on the "process" rather than the individual, recognizes both internal and external "customers" and promotes the need for objective data to analyze and improve processes.
It address improving healthcare quality and patient safety, through the process of continuous quality improvement (CQI). More broadly, the need to invest in the educational and professional development of healthcare staff to achieve fundamental and CQI in patient care. Improvement comes from action: the developing, testing, and implementing of change D.The organization continually reviews improvements to help inform the future aims and objectives of the service.
Once the preparation for CQI has been completed, CQI teams must be formed and trained to initiate CQI. There are seven steps involved in implementing the CQI cycle.
Identify an area where opportunities for improvement exist.
Define a problem within that area, and outline the sequence of activities (the process) that occurs in that problem area.
Establish the desired outcomes of the process and the requirements needed to achieve them.
Select specific steps in the process to study and for each step, list the factors that prevent the achievement of the desired outcome.
Collect and analyze data about the factors that are preventing the achievement of the desired outcomes of the specific step being studied, and quantify the outcomes of that step.
Take corrective action to improve the process.
Monitor the results of the action taken.
It is essential to build CQI into routine organizational procedures by continuously repeating the CQI cycle. This will help to maintain improvements and to identify and address new areas where services can be improved on a regular basis.
www.facebook.com/nclex.review.90
Continuous Quality Improvement. It is both internalized and externalized. It is a system that seeks to improve the provision of services with an emphasis on future results. Like total quality management, CQI uses a set of statistical tools to understand subsystems and uncover problems, but its emphasis is on maintaining quality in the future, not just cont
rolling a process.
It focuses on the "process" rather than the individual, recognizes both internal and external "customers" and promotes the need for objective data to analyze and improve processes.
It address improving healthcare quality and patient safety, through the process of continuous quality improvement (CQI). More broadly, the need to invest in the educational and professional development of healthcare staff to achieve fundamental and CQI in patient care. Improvement comes from action: the developing, testing, and implementing of change D.The organization continually reviews improvements to help inform the future aims and objectives of the service.
Once the preparation for CQI has been completed, CQI teams must be formed and trained to initiate CQI. There are seven steps involved in implementing the CQI cycle.
Identify an area where opportunities for improvement exist.
Define a problem within that area, and outline the sequence of activities (the process) that occurs in that problem area.
Establish the desired outcomes of the process and the requirements needed to achieve them.
Select specific steps in the process to study and for each step, list the factors that prevent the achievement of the desired outcome.
Collect and analyze data about the factors that are preventing the achievement of the desired outcomes of the specific step being studied, and quantify the outcomes of that step.
Take corrective action to improve the process.
Monitor the results of the action taken.
It is essential to build CQI into routine organizational procedures by continuously repeating the CQI cycle. This will help to maintain improvements and to identify and address new areas where services can be improved on a regular basis.