Activities you can undertake to campaign for qi
- 1. Rachel Duffy Phomolo Madome Eva van Swaaij
- 2. In Europe PH is focused on “adding life to years” (healthy ageing) Make people aware about how they want their life to be when they're old. General public: campaigns, commercials or workshops at schools, community centers, companies, train/bus stations, facebook,
- 3. Start from 1 to 2 then to 4 and so on Use the few that are interested to educate others Give them tasks to research on quality improvement projects that have been done before Hold work-shops with them more often Always try make reference to recent quality improvement changes
- 4. Establish a work-place Quality Committee Have Quality as a standing agenda item in your regular staff meetings If you have an established occupational health and safety (OH&S) Committee, include Quality into the terms of reference (TOR). Think about creating Quality Champions amongst your staff Have weekly/fortnightly Quality quizzes and games
- 5. Create a Continuous Quality Improvement Log and ask staff to identify one workplace activity or procedure that could be improved (however small). Reward and recognize improvement. One of the easiest ways to engage staff members in QI is positive reinforcement through reward and recognition of their efforts. Publicize all QI projects and outcomes, or encourage a friendly competition between units and reward with food, small gifts.
- 6. Forming unit-level improvement teams that had decision-making responsibility for change Involving staff in brainstorming sessions designed to identify problems and generate ideas for change Encouraging staff to experiment with little changes by conducting many small, rapid tests of change Enabling staff to measure the effects of the rapid tests on care processes and outcomes Encouraging staff to use these measures to decide whether to abandon, adapt, or adopt the change
- 7. Pearson, M. L., Needleman, J., Parkerton, P. H., Upenieks, V. V., Soban, L. M., & Yee, T. (2009). Participation of Unit Nurses. American Journal of Nursing, 109 (11). 66-70. Retrieved from http://www.nursingcenter.com/library/JournalArt icle.asp?Article_ID=940604 Psychiatric Disability Services of Victoria Inc. (2010). What is Continuous Improvement? Retrieved from http://www.vicserv.org.au/quality-and- ohs/continuous-improvement/ci-faqs.html
- 8. Eva: I brainstormed about ideas that you could use to encourage QI campaigning in PH. Phomolo: I tried to find some scholorly articles on Ebscohost and google scholor but i did not find any thing so i had to brainstorm. Rachel: I found searching for quality improvement activities quite difficult- I used my home universities search engine and used the keys words "engaging staff in quality improvement activities".
Editor's Notes
- #5: Psychiatric Disability Services of Victoria Inc. (2010). What is Continuous Improvement? Retrieved from http://www.vicserv.org.au/quality-and-ohs/continuous-improvement/ci-faqs.html
- #6: Psychiatric Disability Services of Victoria Inc. (2010). What is Continuous Improvement? Retrieved from http://www.vicserv.org.au/quality-and-ohs/continuous-improvement/ci-faqs.html
- #7: Pearson, M. L., Needleman, J., Parkerton, P. H., Upenieks, V. V., Soban, L. M., & Yee, T. (2009). Participation of Unit Nurses. American Journal of Nursing, 109 (11). 66-70. Retrieved from http://www.nursingcenter.com/library/JournalArticle.asp?Article_ID=940604