Signature Assignment: Information Management: Defining the Scope
“NURSING SHORTAGE”
Consider both qualitative and quantitative data.
Examples of these include:
-Leader and peer interviews
-Patient/customer surveys
-Quality improvement (QI) reports from the facility
-Bench marking studies/baseline data.
If baseline data is available:
-What are the goals?
-Are current practices meeting the organizational goals?
-Are the prescribed practices followed?
Determine the scope of the problem, consider, select, and discuss appropriate qualitative and quantitative data points for your project, using the examples above.
Apply any relevant key quality improvement tools to your problem. “NURSING SHORTAGE”
Review and aggregate the information you collected on the selected problem.
Determine the level of risk and frequency of the problem “NURSING SHORTAGE”. This will provide you with the scope and significance of the problem.
