Quality Improvement (class)

There is so much that goes into quality improvement. There is always something that needs needs to be reviewed and changed in order for it to be the best. Quality improvement is a very important aspect of healthcare. Three questions that will help determine what change needs to be made and if the changes made were a change for the good are. What are we trying to accomplish? How will we know that a change is an improvement? What changes can we make that will result in an improvement? Another thing that can be helpful in quality improvement is the PDSA cycle. PDSA stands for plan, do, study, and act. This means that when implementing a change you will make a plan, implement it on a small scale, study the results, and then implement on a larger scale if the results are the intended results.
Something I liked from the discussion in class was the "Swiss Cheese" model that was brought up in class. Often there are different safety checks that have to be bypassed or a few different things that have to go wrong in order for an event to be completely catastrophic, but there are times when this does happen, and it is something that has to be learned from and improved so it it does not happen again.