Nursing's Role in Quality Improvement

AUDIO CONFERENCE ON CD OR AUDIO ON-DEMAND

Sponsored by HCPro's Resource Center for the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®*

presented on September 11, 2008

Safeguard your reputation and reimbursement by engaging your nurses in quality improvement

An ineffective quality improvement (QI) program can hurt two main objectives for a hospital: its reputation and reimbursement. It can also cost a facility ANCC Magnet Recognition Program® status. But even with such importance riding on the success of QI, many facilities still struggle to bring bedside nurses on board.

Listen to HCPro's 90 minute audio conference, Nursing’s Role in Quality Improvement: Unit-Based Ways to Inspire Staff to Collect Data, Benchmark Results, and Conduct Projects. This program gives you the tools—including scorecards and dashboards—to educate, engage, and hold nursing staff accountable for their role in QI. Expert speakers Barbara J. Hannon, RN, MSN, CPHQ, and Sharon Courage, RN, MPH, teach you to:

• Distinguish between evidence-based practice, QI, and PI
• Translate regulatory requirements into quality care at the bedside
• Identify what unit-based data to collect,  methods for collection, and ways to benchmark results
• Effectively share data with staff in a way that is meaningful to them

AGENDA

1. What is quality improvement?
   1. Difference between QI and performance improvement
   2. Difference between QI and evidence based practice
   3. External drivers
      1. Pay for performance
      2. Transparency
      3. Institute for Healthcare Improvement
      4. The Joint Commission
   4. Why do nurses need to participate in quality activities?
      1. Safe patient care
      2. ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®
2. Collect and analyze unit-based quality data
   1. Identify what data to collect at the unit level
      1. Nurse-sensitive indicators
      2. National Patient Safety Goals
   2. Data management
      1. Data sources
      2. What does data tell us?
      3. Data presentation
   3. Identify internal and external benchmarks to examine data
   4. Choose a model for quality improvement
3. Engage staff nurses in quality improvement activities
   1. Educate staff nurses on their role in improving quality
   2. Explain data results and benchmarks
   3. Engage staff in unit and departmental quality projects
   4. Hold staff nurses accountable for QI/PI
      1. Set behavioral-linked expectations
      2. Create a blameless culture
4. Get data to staff nurses
   1. Disseminate data at the unit level
   2. Best practices from the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
5. Questions and answers

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

By the end of the program you’ll be able to:

• Recognize the need for nurses to conduct quality improvement projects
• Determine what nurses should be collecting at the unit level
• List ways to collect unit-based quality improvement data
• Discover how to analyze data through benchmarking
• Identify how to disseminate data to frontline staff
• Show staff nurses how to understand data
• Identify best practices to hold staff nurses accountable for conducting quality improvement projects

BONUS TOOLS

In addition to the expertise and advice presented during this audio conference, you'll also receive a slide presentation of the program materials and

1. Scorecards to help your staff members understand and stay on top of your scores
2. HCPro’s article titled Improve patient outcomes by disseminating data to frontline staff, from HCPro’s Advisor to the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®, August 2008.

These materials are provided with PDF links.

MEET THE SPEAKERS

Barbara J. Hannon, RN, MSN, CPHQ, is the coordinator of the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program® for the University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinic. She chairs the Professional Nursing Practice Committee and Nursing Retention Committee and is involved in QI activities for the department.

Sharon Courage, RN, MPH, is vice president of hospital services and a senior consultant with The Greeley Company. She brings over 20 years of healthcare experience to her work assisting clients with the development and implementation of a variety of healthcare programs, including quality management. Courage has served as the director of quality and clinical programs for several hospitals and health systems.

WHO SHOULD LISTEN?

Quality improvement coordinators, ANCC Magnet Recognition Program® project directors, CNOs/VPs of patient care, nurse educators, nursing directors, nurse managers, staff nurses, and quality nurses.

AUDIO ON-DEMAND

In addition to the regular purchase options for HCPro audio conferences, we are pleased to offer another option, an audio on-demand. Audio on-demand allows you to download the program and play it back at your convenience through your computer or MP3 player. Purchase a CD or audio on-demand of the program and listen when you can. It's also a perfect training tool for new staff or as a refresher for veteran staff.

• Audio Conferences

• Other Nursing Products