Identify a process within your organization on which you would like to create a QI plan for a specific process and for which you would like to make recommendations for the implementation of the QI plan.

Read Chapter 1 in Ross, T. K. (2014). Health care quality management: tools and applications. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Read pages 2-3 in U. S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration (2011). “Developing and Implementing a QI Plan.” Retrieved from: https://www.hrsa.gov/sites/default/files/quality/toolbox/508pdfs/developingqiplan.pdf

• Watch Improvement Foundation (2016, Jun 7). “What is the difference between quality assurance and quality improvement?” Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDXf2xmv_QQ.

Identify a process within your organization on which you would like to create a QI plan for a specific process and for which you would like to make recommendations for the implementation of the QI plan. You should choose your own work department or departments that you have some familiarity as to how it operates and a specific process such as patient processing through a facility, a process on a patient floor, laboratory services, or an operating room process to analyze and recommend improvements.