Identify the role of the BSN nurse in the quality improvement process as a member of the collaborative interprofessional team.

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 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..
  • 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.
  • After you have developed your responses, type your responses directly in your saved Milestone 1 Template.