Purpose

This assignment is intended to help you learn to use a change model to drive quality improvement change in health care.

Overview

Review the Discussion Guidelines in the Syllabus before starting this assignment.

There are multiple models for change that can be used to assist you as a leader when you are attempting to drive change in processes for quality improvement throughout your organization. Cause and Effect Diagram Discussion Paper As a leader, in order to drive change in an organization, you must also focus on individual change. Organizations are made up of a collection of individuals and in order to orchestrate change for the organization, you must properly manage change among the individuals being impacted by the change. Collaboration, input and teamwork from key stakeholders is imperative. You will use a QI model to address the problem statement below to create change for improved organizational quality.

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Problem Statement

The rapid-acting insulin distribution process is broken and leads to workarounds. This presents a risk of medication errors for patients. Your organization reported 47 medication errors with rapid-acting insulin across all units in the last 6 months over the 22,000 insulin administrations. You are concerned and want to work toward change.

Action Items

Create a post where you discuss Models for Improvement PDSA and other models (Ogrin et al., 2022).

Review the models found in the examples from the IHI Change Models Links to an external site.. Review each model to familiarize yourself with each one.

Those with last name A-M choose one of the first 5 models: Cause and Effect Diagram, Driver Diagram, Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) Tool, Flowchart, Histogram.

Those with last name N-Z choose one of the last 5 models: Pareto Chart, PDSA Worksheet, Project Planning Form, Run Chart and Control Chart, Scatter Diagram.

Use the model you have chosen to develop an improvement plan for the problem that is presented above. Use the templates (see the IHI website) provided to map out your plan. Explain why you chose the model you used for the plan.