Postgraduate Quality Improvement Seminar Series: Organizing your Improvement Project (November 14, 2024)
Program Information
There is a major movement underway in healthcare nationally to develop ways to improve the results of care and make care safer for patients and families. These issues have been the subject of many reports by the Institute of Medicine and are being discussed in all health professional disciplines (nursing, medicine, behavioral health, pharmacy, health administration, and others). In addition to the agreement that we must improve care, there is broad support for enhancing the learning of health professionals to include topics and experiences that will prepare health professionals to lead the changes that will result in a better system. In addition, feedback from former residents, postdocs, and fellows suggested they appreciated the opportunity to engage in quality improvement during their training.
The QI Seminar Series is designed to provide trainees with an opportunity to develop the knowledge and skills to improve care. The series offers multiple tools and ways to use them that trainees will be able to try in their own work, and then explore using further in their work after training.
Target Audience
This activity is appropriate for the following audiences:
- Postgraduate Nurse Practitioners - Family, Psychiatric Mental Health, Adult-Gerontology, and Pediatric
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to do the following:
- Enhance the knowledge and skills of learners to increase confidence and competence of caring for a complex patient population in FQHCs and other safety net settings.
- Enhance the skill of learners to increase confidence and competence of designing, implementing and assessing a change related to the health care system in which learners are practicing.
Presentation Slides
The slide deck is available at the bottom of this page.
Session Recording
The session recording will be available here within 1 week of each live session.
Recommended Resources
The two videos lined below will provide a brief introduction to how a group does brainstorming:
Additional Information
Attachment | Size |
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Fishbone Diagram Template.xlsx | 42.01 KB |
Global Aim Statement Template.pptx | 432.24 KB |
Session III QI Seminar Slides 11.14.24 Final.pptx | 865.16 KB |
QI Seminar Series Schedule
Below are the topics and dates of the sessions for the 2024-2025 Program Year.
- An overview of Quality Improvement (10/10/24)
- Care Observations & Stakeholder Considerations (10/24/24)
- Organizing your Improvement Project (11/14/24)
- Global Aim and Fishbone Diagram (12/12/24)
- Process Mapping (Flowcharts) (1/9/25)
- Measurement to Inform Change (1/23/25 & 1/30/25)
- An Approach to Testing a Change (2/13/25)
- Communication about your Improvement Effort (2/27/25)
- Stakeholder Analysis & Conflict Management (3/13/25)
- Managing Up and Gaining Leadership Buy-In (3/27/25)
- Negotiation (4/10/25)
- Negotiation and More About Cycles of Change (4/24/25)
- Sustaining your Improvement Effort (5/8/25)
- Resident Presentations (5/22/25, 6/12/25, 6/26/25)
Weitzman Institute Disclosure Statement
It is the policy of the Weitzman Institute to ensure that Continuing Education (CE) activities are independent and free of commercial bias. To ensure educational content is objective, balanced, and guarantee content presented is in the best interest of its learners' and the public, the Weitzman Institute requires that everyone in a position to control educational content disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies within the prior 24 months. An ineligible company is one whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Examples can be found at accme.org.
Faculty participating in a Weitzman Institute-sponsored activity must disclose to the planning committee and audience all financial or other relationship(s) with ineligible companies.
Accreditation Statement
In support of improving patient care, Moses/Weitzman Health System Inc. and its Weitzman Institute is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credential Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
By completing this activity, you provide Moses/Weitzman Health System Inc. the permission to share completion data with the ACCME and the certifying board(s).
Please note that continuing education credit requirements differ by state, jurisdiction, and licensing agency. It is your responsibility to confirm if your licensing/credentialing agency will accept the credits offered by this activity.
Available Credit
- 1.50 AAPA Category I CMEThrough Joint Accreditation, Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is able to provide American Academy of PAs (AAPA) credit to physician assistants at its activities. Participants should only claim commensurate credit with the extent of their participation in the activity.
- 1.50 ANCCThrough Joint Accreditation, Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is able to provide American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) nursing credit to nurses at its activities.
- 1.50 APAThrough Joint Accreditation, Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is able to provide American Psychological Association (APA) credit to psychologists at its activities.
- 1.50 Participation Hour(s)You are able to download an unaccredited Participation Certificate for your records if you are not able to use any of the credit types provided for this activity or if this activity does not offer accredited CME/CE credits.
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Required Hardware/Software
- This online activity requires use of a device connected to the Internet, such as a computer tablet or mobile device.
- The activity will take place over Zoom, which must be accessed directly from within the activity.