The patient and family are at the center of quality health care. Engaging patients in the their care supports improved outcomes, increases satisfaction for patient and provider, and restores dignity and control. Core concepts include: respect and dignity, information sharing, participation, and collaboration.
Background and information on CCTM Study Day, conducted by and used with permission from Akron Children's Hospital.
Quality RN job description, used with permission of Beacon Health System.
Patient Navigator job description, used with permission of East Tennessee Children's Hospital.
The Readiness Ruler is a helpful tool to support the use of Motivational Interviewing (MI), the evidence-based treatment, by service providers.
Part of IHI's Partnering in Self-Management Support: A Toolkit for Clinicians.
Created in 1984, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is an independent, volunteer panel of national experts in prevention and evidence-based medicine. The Task Force works to improve the health of all Americans by making evidence-based recommendations about clinical preventive services such as screenings, counseling services, and preventive medications.
The Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) Worksheet is a useful tool for documenting a test of change. The PDSA cycle is shorthand for testing a change by developing a plan to test the change (Plan), carrying out the test (Do), observing and learning from the consequences (Study), and determining what modifications should be made to the test (Act).
Fully updated and revised by authors T. Heather Herdman, PhD, RN, FNI, and Shigemi Kamitsuru, PhD, RN, FNI, NANDA International Nursing Diagnoses: Definitions and Classification 2018-2020, Eleventh Edition is the definitive guide to nursing diagnoses, as reviewed and approved by NANDA International (NANDA-I).
As part of the implementation of MIPS, clinician performance is measured through the data clinicians report in four areas - Quality, Improvement Activities, Advancing Care Information, and Cost.
Lean Six Sigma is simply a process for solving a problem. It consists of five phases: Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, & Control. This process is also known as DMAIC, the acronym for thosefive phases. DMAIC is a five-step method for improving existing process problems with unknown causes.