Scholarly Activities in Nursing
Throughout the RN-to-BSN program, students are required to participate in scholarly activities outside of clinical practice or professional practice. Examples of scholarly activities include attending conferences, seminars, journal club, grand rounds, morbidity and mortality meetings, interdisciplinary committees, quality improvement committees, and any other opportunities available at your site, within your community, or nationally.
You are required to post at least one documented scholarly activity by the end of this course. In addition to this submission, you are required to be involved and contribute to interdisciplinary initiatives on a regular basis.
Submit, by way of this assignment, a summary report of the scholarly activity, including who, what, where, when, and any relevant take-home points. Include the appropriate program competencies associated with the scholarly activity as well as future professional goals related to this activity. You may use the "Scholarly Activity Summary" resource to help guide this assignment.
Scholarly Activities
Student’s Name
Institution
Scholarly Activities
Overview
The scholarly activity I participated in was the quality improvement committee (QIC) at the organization I work for. A QIC is a group of people assigned the responsibility of managing and implementing quality improvement activities within a healthcare organization (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality(AHRQ), n.d.). They also investigate issues relating to the quality of care and evaluate clinical outcomes. Usually, the QIC reports directly to the chief executive officer (CEO) or the board members of an organization. These are the primary target market. In addition, healthcare providers such as nurses and physicians are also the target market for QIC because they can use the information from investigative/evaluation reports to improve the quality of care. The activity was beneficial to me because it allowed me to see how quality improvement programs are developed, implemented, and monitored.
Problem
A QIC addressed quality-related issues. Some of the problems that a QIC is designed to solve include:
* Patient safety incidents- These are issues that could have or did lead to patient harm (Carlfjord et al., 2018). Patient safety incidents not only threaten the safety of patients but also risk the reputation of the provider and the organization
* Healthcare providers’ complaints- These are issues raised by healthcare providers concerning the quality of care, such as insufficient training or high workload that could threaten patient safety.
* A nurse participating in QIC could learn about the various reporting mechanism to prevent patient harm from incidents and other issues.
Solution
One key solution to patient safety incidents is establishing strong and effective incident reporting systems. According to Carlfjord et al. (2018), incident reporting involves identifying safety issues that can harm p...