HQS 640 Topic 8 DQ 1

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1 HQS 640 Topic 8 DQ 1 The practice of medicine has gotten very complex and is always looking for ways to improve the care and safety of our patients. To continue to improve patient care and safety, there are many tools that can be used to improve how we provide care and what care is provided. Some of these tools are the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) tool, the Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) tool, and the Root Cause Analysis (RCA). The type of project being done will dictate which tool will be the best one to use. The PDSA model is generally used for smaller scale incremental improvement projects. This model is a cyclic process of planning a change, testing the change, observing the results of the change, and then adjusting the plan based on what’s observed. This cycle can be repeated as often as needed to get the final results the organization is looking to achieve. This is the tool that will be the best fit for my project as we work to develop a nursing handoff tool for the new sepsis protocol. FMEA is a proactive risk management tool that has a close examination of the current process to see where improvements are can be made to improve the process (Spath & DeVane, 2022). The model identifies potential failure modes in the process and prioritize the changes needed based on their impact on the process and how likely the error is to occur. It allows the researcher to develop a mitigation plan so adverse events can be avoided. An RCA was the mandated tool required by The Joint Commission for a sentinel event since 1996 (Pelletier & Beaudin, 2024). An RCA is used to find the system issue that caused an event or a near miss. An RCA is a structured investigation process to find the underlying cause of the incident so a plan can be made to correct the process problem.
2 What a quality team is looking to do will determine which quality tool they should use. Thre is no standardized right answer for which tool is the best to use. It depends on the team and which tool they are comfortable with or what the project is trying to accomplish to determine the best tool for the project. References Pelletier, L. R., & Beaudin, C. L. (2024). Hq solutions: Resource for the healthcare quality professional: Resource for the healthcare quality professional 5th edition (5th ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning. Spath, P. L., & DeVane, K. A. (2022). Introduction to healthcare quality management, fourth edition (1st ed.). Gateway to Healthcare Management.
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