NURS 704 Chatham University Quality Improvement in Healthcare Discussion

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1. The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice. The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care (www.dartmouthatlas.org) contains data about primary care, care of people with chronic illnesses, hospital and physician capacity, and so on.

• Go to the website and click on the data tab, then on Interactive Maps. From there, select an area of interest to you. Your discussion post will report the data from your search, including:

• What did you learn that could beneficial to DNP nurses leading quality improvement initiatives?
• What information was surprising to learn?
• What more do you want to know?

1. National Alliance on Mental Illness. Mental Health by the Numbers (org/Learn-More/Mental-Health-By-the-Numbers“>https://www.nami.org/Learn-More/Mental-Health-By-the-Numbers) provides some infographics and statistics about the prevalence and impact of mental illness in the United States.

• Review the (1) children and teen infographic, (2) the mental health facts infographic, and (3) the multicultural mental health facts infographic.

• • What did you learn that could be beneficial to DNP nurses leading quality improvement initiatives?
  • What information was surprising to learn?
  • What more do you want to know?

1. Institute for Healthcare Improvement. IHI Triple Aim Initiative (http://www.ihi.org/Engage/Initiatives/TripleAim/Pages/default.aspx) provides information related to advancing health system performance.

• The IHI developed the Triple Aim, which has now become the Quadruple Aim. Review the IHI video, success stories, and data measures and why the fourth aim was added. After reviewing, answer the following:

• What did you learn that could beneficial to DNP nurses leading quality improvement initiatives?