Quality improvement

The purpose of this assignment is to differentiate quality improvement (QI), evidence-based practice (EBP), and research.

Create a graphic image or visual model differentiating quality improvement, evidence-based practice, and research. You can use PowerPoint, that creates a graphic. Be creative in your design. Include the following information in your graphic image or visual model:

  1. Compare and contrast quality improvement, evidence-based practice, and research. Identify at least one similarity and difference for each.
  2. Provide an example of quality improvement, evidence-based practice, and research.
  3. Explain why quality improvement, evidence-based practice, and research would be applied in a health care setting.
  4. This assignment requires a minimum of 4 scholarly sources.

Use APA style is required for the body of this assignment.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

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It is focused on improving patient outcomes and family experience. It also benefits the staff and the organization (Carter et al., 2017). It is focused on improving patient outcomes and family experience. It also benefits the staff and the organization (Carter et al., 2017). Benefits clinicians, the scientific community, and the subjects on some occasions (Carter et al., 2017).
QI efforts are controlled by the organization but influenced by the Centre for Medicaid and Medicare services and others in different regions.   EBP efforts are strictly regulated by the organization. Research is regulated by IRB, state, and local laws, among others, based on the research design.
To reduce drug errors through an increase in nurse’s knowledge and skills for old patients. Nurses adopting the most effective strategies to reduce drug errors in old patients with dementia (Edwards & Axe, 2018) Determining the efficacy of nurse training in reducing drug errors in geriatric care
 Hand hygiene for clinicians and patients to prevent hospital acquired infections. Prevention of hospital-acquired infections through the improvement of nursing care measures and or hand hygiene. A comprehensive model of different strategies.

 

Determine how the qualification of nurses influences the prevalence of hospital-acquired infections.

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Quality improvement