Public Health Question

Learning Goal: I’m working on a public health report and need an explanation and answer to help me learn.

There are several Quality Improvement models used in healthcare go by various names, including total quality management and continuous quality improvement models. A widely used one is the Plan, Do, Check, Act (PDCA) cycle that has 4 stages:

Plan: Determine goals for a process and needed changes to achieve them

Do: Implement the changes

Check: Evaluate the results in terms of performance

Act: Standardize and stabilize the change or begin the cycle again, depending on the results.

This assignment is designed to help you identify the PDCA evidence-based practice model and barriers and will be graded according to the Guidelines and Rubric for Models and Barriers.

INSTRUCTIONS:

• Cite specific examples of barriers you have encountered or potential barriers in your particular institution.
• How might you begin to overcome those barriers? List 4 ways.
• Discuss how you would use the PDCA model in your institution. Why?
• The PDCA Cycle: Define the PDCA Cycle and explain why you think this
  model might work in your organization
• Barriers: What barriers might you encounter
• Overcoming Barriers: How do you as a nurse overcome barriers
• Use APA format- no more than 2 pages excluding title page and reference page