Week 1 Course project Milestone 1
Course Project Milestone 1 Guidelines and Grading Rubric
Updated 01/2019
Purpose
To apply lessons in quality improvement in nursing to a real-world nursing issue. This Course Project will use the Six Sigma DMAIC process.
Course Outcomes
The Course Project enables the student to meet the following Course Outcomes (COs):
- CO1: Identify the role of the BSN nurse in the quality improvement process as a member of the collaborative interprofessional team. (POs 2 and 7)
- CO2: Discuss effective processes and strategies to improve quality in nursing. (POs 2 and 8)
Points
The entire Course Project is worth 600 points. Milestone 1 is worth 150 points of this total.
Due Date
Submit your completed NR392 Milestone 1 by Sunday, 11:59 p.m. MT, end of Week 1.
Requirements and Guidelines
- Quality improvement is an important issue in professional nursing today. In Milestone 1, the student will define a nursing care issue (not a workforce issue such as staffing) from a current or former workplace or clinical setting that could be impacted by improved quality, and state the desired outcome of the improvement in quality. The student will then provide details about this issue, as well as explain the reason this issue was selected. Milestone 1 is due at the end of Week 1.
- Download the required Milestone 1 Template.
- Save it to your computer in Microsoft Word 2013 (or later) as a .docx file with the file name: Your Last Name NR392 Milestone 1.docx.
- Carefully review the grading rubric criteria for Milestone 1.
- Watch the video that provides a detailed overview of the requirements of Milestone 1.
- After you have developed your responses, type your responses directly in your saved Milestone 1 Template.
Reminder
Before preparing your assignment, please review this “Crediting Sources Made Simple” resource. This tool is intended to help you understand scholarly writing, APA, referencing, and crediting. Please reach out to your instructor with any questions as you prepare your assignment.
Answer preview
The nursing care issue is falls in patients, especially those in the geriatric wards. The increase in falls may lead to injury or death of the patients. Besides, they increase the comorbidity of diseases in patients. This leads to poor patient outcomes and continued stay at the hospital.
Desired Outcome: The desired results would be to minimize the frequency of geriatric patient falls in the hospital. Frequent nursing rounds will increase surveillance and enable nurses to assist patients, thus preventing falls. This will ensure better provision of care and achievement of the desired patient outcomes…
(450 words)