Table of Contents
Overview
In your portfolio project, you will do the following:
- Apply leadership knowledge to your personal practice to improve patient outcomes.
- Advocate for high-quality and safe patient care.
- Analyze organizational structures and cultures to improve leadership and management effectiveness.
- Analyze common issues in nursing management.
- Propose solutions to barriers in implementing an intervention.
- Evaluate management strategies.
- Recommend management and communication strategies to effectively manage staff and improve patient care.
- Formulate a method for evaluating the success of implementation.
You will develop a Quality Improvement plan for an issue that has been identified in your workplace. You will have identified the issue by interviewing a nurse leader at your work. In Module 1, you will need to have conducted the interview and need to create the summary of the interview.
Action Items
- Read the Portfolio Project: Overview.
- Read the grading rubric for this assignment.
- Identify a nurse leader (not in your department) to interview in Module 1.
- Interview the nurse leader (see action item 5 for details).
- In a Microsoft Word document, prepare a summary follows:
- Explain who the person is, his/her role, etc. Write a 3-4 paragraph biography about the person you identified as an effective leader. Describe the characteristics displayed by this person, how his/her leadership improves patient outcomes, and the leadership characteristics and theory (theories) that are exemplified in this person’s leadership.
- When and where the interview took place.
- Identify and briefly describe 3 – 4 priority quality improvement issues that were mentioned by the nurse leader in the interview.
- Select one priority quality improvement issue gleaned from the nurse leader, which you will address in your quality improvement project.
- Address the AIM of the project that is specific, measurable, and addresses why, when, and how the project would improve patient outcomes.
- Review the assignment rubric to confirm that you have completed all elements of the assignment.
- By the due date indicated, upload your work.
Rubric
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Description of Nurse Leader
The student included the description of the nurse leader he/she interviewed. The student explained who the person is, his/her role, etc. The student described the characteristics displayed by this person, how his /her leadership improves patient outcomes.
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Priority Quality Improvement Issues
The student identified and briefly described 3-4 priority quality improvement issues that were mentioned by the nurse leader in the interview; the student clearly explained their significance and implications in relation to the organization.
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One Priority Quality Improvement Issue
The student selected one priority quality improvement issue gleaned from the nurse leader which the student will address in his/her quality improvement project; the quality issue represents an important issue for improvement in the organization; the student justified selection of the issue.
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AIM
The student addressed the AIM of the project that is specific, measureable, and addresses why, when, and how the project would improve patient outcomes.
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Total Points: 100
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