NUR 400 Milestone One Guidelines and Rubric The milestone assignments in this co

NUR 400 Milestone One Guidelines and Rubric
The milestone assignments in this course are to help you prepare for the final project PowerPoint (PPT) presentation. Milestone One sets the stage for the proposal of your initiative. You will identify a patient care issue that provides an opportunity for a quality improvement initiative. You will then use evidence-based resources to support the proposed initiative and its development. Your instructor will provide feedback for each milestone. You should incorporate this feedback into the final project PPT presentation.
Prompt: For this milestone, use evidence-based resources to address the following topics:
I. Introduction and Proposed Initiative
a) Analyze a healthcare organization to determine the key characteristics (including organizational values, if applicable) impacting its quality of care, with a
focus on the relationship between quality outcomes and healthcare reimbursement.
b) Articulate a quality outcome problem involving patient care and impacted by financial considerations that provides a quality improvement opportunity.
c) Articulate a proposed initiative, including recommendations of interprofessional strategies to improve the patient care problem.
d) Articulate a SMART goal that the leadership role can support in the planning, analysis, and implementation of the quality improvement initiative.
e) Assess a quality improvement model for its applicability and use to promote change with the quality improvement initiative.
The milestone assignments in this course are to help you prepare for the final project PowerPoint (PPT) presentation. Milestone Two provides the support for the quality improvement initiative with details about the leadership style and existing interprofessional strategies within the healthcare organization. You will survey evidence-based resources to support your quality improvement initiative, analyze the impact on healthcare reimbursement, and assess models or theories of change. You will continue to use the patient care issue that you chose in Milestone One as the focus of this work. Use evidence-based resources to provide support for each section. Your instructor will provide feedback for each milestone. You should incorporate this feedback into the final project PPT presentation.
Prompt: For this milestone, use evidence-based resources to address the following critical elements:
II. Support
a) Analyze the current leadership style and its role in the planning, analysis, and implementation of quality improvement initiatives within the
organization.
b) Detail existing interprofessional strategies within the organization that may influence or impact new and existing quality improvement initiatives.
c) Appraise evidence-based resources for their support of the quality improvement initiative as a method of advancing quality patient care outcomes
and healthcare reimbursement.
d) Analyze the effect the quality improvement initiative will have on the relationship between the healthcare problem and healthcare reimbursement.
e) Assess a change theory or model for its applicability to the quality improvement initiative.
Rubric
Guidelines for Submission: Your submission should be a Word document approximately 6–8 pages in length (not including title and reference pages) and should
be formatted using proper APA publication format. This submission should include at least four evidence-based references published within the last five years.