Discussion: Personal Improvement Project Status
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At the start of a new year, gyms are flooded with people who have made a resolution to be healthier. By March, the flood has dwindled to a stream. Though people may have the best of intentions, sometimes their goals do not come to fruition. How are you monitoring progress toward your personal improvement goal?
A benefit of this course is that you have a place to test out tools, methods, and processes that may be beneficial to you as a nurse executive engaged in CQI. You can take a risk, you can experience challenges or even fail, and you can learn from those challenges, within the confines of the classroom. Your colleagues are doing the same.
For this Discussion, you will evaluate progress on your Personal Improvement Project, taking a hard look at the measures you have chosen to track and whether the data are aligning with your intended goal. You will also share insights, methods, and tools with your colleagues in order to support one another.
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To Prepare:
Reflect on the steps you have taken in your Personal Improvement Project.
Access and examine the data you have gathered.
Evaluate the tools available to you and how you plan to use them.
By Day 3 of Week 3
Post an assessment of your progress with your Personal Improvement Project.
Challenges and Successes: What have you found challenging about the Personal Improvement Project and what have you found easier than expected? How so?
Alignment of Measures: Consider whether the data you have collected thus far is giving you the data you need to meet your goal. Why or why not? If not, then adjust your approach accordingly.
Tools: What tools have you found useful or not useful? What diagrams are you planning to use? How are you going about developing your process map?
Personal Improvement Project
Time is among the most precious things that everyone is given in equal measure regardless of age, gender, religion, political affiliations, and other attributes of humanity. However, different people utilize time differently, leading to varied outcomes such as success and failure for others. Time management is a timely topic in healthcare because healthcare outcomes are time-sensitive. My project is to use time management tools and other techniques to help in enhancing productivity. As a healthcare provider, I intend to practice time management so as meet a target of at least 15 patients per day.
According to Zafarullah and Pertti (2017), effective time management helps professionals improve their job efficiency by allocating their time appropriately, increasing efficiency and productivity. In healthcare, I intend to record the total number of people I attend daily. With effective time management, I will achieve my target of at least 15 people daily. Recording the number of people I attend will help me identify my deficit and adhere to my schedule.
I intend to measure how effective time management can help me be more productive by seeing more patients daily. One method of ensuring that I achieve my goals is recording and comparing. For my project, a Pareto chart remains essential t. I intend to adopt some changes to achieve my time management goals. Some of the necessary changes I must adhere to include avoiding multitasking, lateness and setting well-defined goals.
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After achieving my goals, I will emphasize the application of the tools that I have used and the experience I have gained to better my efforts and increase the number of patients I attend daily. The field of nursing requires the application of evidence in informing best practices (Camargo et al., 2018). Therefore, if I achieve my project successfully, I will then implement such projects in the future to inform other quality improvement projects.
One major challenge that I have experienced in my project is overcoming procrastination. Procrastination is one of the hindrances to time management, and I have struggled to overcome it. I have, however, found adhering to most schedules much easier than I had initially thought. Once I set a goal at a certain time, I have always tried to achieve the outcome more so for tasks with short deadlines. The data I have collected is sufficient to give me the required information to meet my goal. The data I was collecting is on the number of patients I have attended, and I feel it is essential in accomplishing my project. The tools that I found useful are Pareto charts because they are efficient in highlighting the ordered frequency counts for values on different levels on a given variable, such as the number of patients I attend per day.
References
Alkiayat, M. (2021). A Practical Guide to Creating a Pareto Chart as a Quality Improvement Tool. Global Journal on Quality and Safety in Healthcare, 4(2), 83-84.
Camargo, F. C., Iwamoto, H. H., Galvão, C. M., Pereira, G. D. A., Andrade, R. B., & Masso, G. C. (2018). Competences and barriers for the evidence-based practice in nursing: an integrative review. Revista brasileira de enfermagem, 71, 2030-2038.
Zafarullah, S., & Pertti, V. (2017). Effect of time management on the job satisfaction and motivation of teacher educators: A narrative analysis.