Propose a high-level quality improvement initiative for a selected departmental strategic priority, and choose an effective method of presenting your proposal to executive leaders and other stakeholders in the organization and community.
Preparation
Choose one strategic priority from the departmental strategic plan you developed in Assessment 3 as the focus of a proposed quality improvement initiative.
Note: The assessments in this course must be completed in the order presented; subsequent assessments should be built on both your earlier work and your instructor’s feedback on earlier assessments. If you choose to submit assessments prematurely, without considering and integrating your instructor’s feedback, your assessment may be returned ungraded, resulting in your loss of an assessment attempt.
Instructions
Develop a presentation of your proposed high-level quality improvement ?initiative for executive leaders and other stakeholders in the organization and community.
Be creative in showcasing your proposal. Choose a presentation method you consider to be both engaging and likely to garner the necessary support and buy-in. For example, you might consider any of the following methods, or something different.
Marketing brochure.
Newsletter.
The following tasks correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide, so be sure to address each point in the presentation of your proposed quality improvement initiative. Read the performance-level descriptions for each criterion to see how your work will be assessed.
Explain the rationale for establishing a strategic priority.
Describe the overarching aim and focus of your proposed quality improvement initiative.
Use the evidence-based literature to provide broad rationale for establishing this priority.
Consider the organization’s political landscape and strategic priorities.
Explain the value of stakeholder feedback and the process for collaborating with stakeholders on the proposed quality improvement initiative.
Explain how one contemporary change theory could be used to facilitate changes inherent in implementing a quality improvement ?initiative.
Justify your recommendations.