Fundamentals of Quality Improvement
Modern healthcare has reached many major milestones regarding medical knowledge improvement and innovations, but the United States health care system still falls short in the areas of quality, cost, outcomes and equity (Institute of Medicine, 2013). It has been identified that our healthcare delivery often is carried out in silos and it is up to our leaders to identify and bridge the gaps. Successful improvement can only be developed when we view healthcare through multiple lenses versus a single lens focus (Nash, Joshi, Ransom, et al., 2019). The Triple aim
framework was introduced by the Institute for Health Care Improvement (IHI) in 2006 to address these concerns. The IOM also introduced six health care aims for improvement in response to their 2001 published report titled ‘Crossing the health care Chasm (Institute for Healthcare Improvement, n.d.). Each of the developed aims provide a crucial segment of the healthcare quality landscape.
Nursing leadership has often been described as the artwork of influencing others in improving the quality of care delivered. Quality and safety in healthcare must be at the forefront of every leaders’ priorities, regardless of the known gaps between best practice and actual current practices.
The fundamentals of quality improvement are an essential role of the nursing leader according to the Institute of Medicine (2013). The leader must be able to create the links between investing in quality improvement, clinical outcomes, guest experience, and financial impact (Storkholm, Mazzocato, Savage, et al., 2017). In order to further aid in understanding the fundamentals of quality improvement please review the attached
video and reading materials provided and answer the following questions:
Questions:
1-Briefly describe each of the 6 IOM aims of healthcare improvement framework.
2-Patient centered care is listed as one of the six IOM framework. 3-What initiatives are in place in your organization to address the need for patient centered care?
4-What is the IHI Triple Aim framework approach? Why is it important to healthcare leaders?
5-Imagine you are a nurse manager in the acute care setting, your Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) has asked that you prepare a quality improvement project to help the organization’s readiness with Triple Aim approach, what areas would you focus on?
