write a two-page proposal identifying a significant quality issue that you will research for this project. Your paper should include a title page and a reference page. Be sure that you address each requirement. Use headings to differentiate each topic areas. In your proposal, provide the following information:
Write an introduction to the Quality Benchmark Project.
Describe the quality issue to be addressed.
Provide background information on the issue.
Examine previous attempts to address the issue. Some examples may
include but are not limited to:
• Hand hygiene, to include nosocomial infections driving healthcare costs
• Medication errors, to include transcription errors or staffing issues.
• Patient falls, to include alarm fatigue or short hospital stays –
• Bed sores acquired in the hospital.
• Misdiagnosis and how that affects short and long-term patient care. How does that affect
healthcare costs?
• Issues with patient identification – may tie into treatment errors or billing issues.
• Poor documentation and how it negatively affects reimbursement, medication errors and
drives up hospital costs.
• Rural hospital budgets and reimbursement-leading to high rate of rural hospital closures
and impact of healthcare.
• Staffing ratios – is it really a nursing shortage or just budgetary restrictions? How does this
negatively affect quality of care, nursing retention and hospital costs long-term? How does
it affect patient and staff satisfaction?
• Integrating mental health into medical care. Should the current system of medical focusing
on medical and psych focusing on psych be dissolved and instead merge the two into a
comprehensive system?
• Managing health care costs and chronic disease. Consider cost of prevention to keep acute
from becoming chronic and long-term benefit to our society.