Topic: Identify one quality improvement strategy to improve health. How could you apply it to your current nursing practice? How does the assimilation of quality improvement strategies enhance leadership?

Topic: Identify one quality improvement strategy to improve health. How could you apply it to your current nursing practice? How does the assimilation of quality improvement strategies enhance leadership?

Comment 1: Sheila
In healthcare, we always want to find new ways and modify existing interventions on how we can improve our patient’s health. Implementating new strategies as a nurse is a great way to get everyone involved, such as the individuals in leadership positions. One qualiy improvement stratgety that I believe is often overlook is the simply the importance of giving a good handoff report. I recently recognize that at my hospital a lot of nurses don’t give report as they should. Sometimes report is all over the place, which can lead to misinformation or missing information, or the nurse does not have all the information that is actually needed. I believe that if we are able to improve how report is given, then we would get to know our patients better, which will help us provide the best possible care for them. I believe that overtime, nurses may forget how to give a good report. It would be great to have leaders of the organization involved in this matter so that we can all strategize on ways on how we can improve this siutation.