Assignment 3 – Quality Improvement Initiative
Instructions and Rubric:
Create a power point presentation for this assignment. Your target audience is the nursing staff.
Select a problem or process at your organization that needs improvement.
(THE
PROBLEM IN MY ORGANIZATION IS LACK OF MENTAL HEALTH EDUCATION
FOR NURSES)
Perform an in-depth, literature review (10+ citations) to determine what evidence is
available on this topic.
Please use headings to reflect areas for which points will be awarded to organize your
presentation except for the last criteria - power point length, APA, spelling, and grammar.
Component
Percent
of
Grade
Details
Introduction
and Problem
30
Identify a problem or process at the
organization that needs improvement
Literature
review
90
Provide a synthesis of the literature on
the topic (at least 10 research citations).
Identifies 3 common themes.
Root causes
30
Analyze the root causes or variations
from quality standards
Interventions
30
Identify interventions found in the
research literature to address the
quality improvement initiative
Change
model
30
Identify a change model that you can
use to implement this project
Benchmarks
30
Describe the benchmarks that will you
use to measure the expected outcomes
Timeline
30
Develop a
timeline
for implementation and expected
outcomes
Formatting
30
APA format: paper limited to 7 slides,
