WGU C157 Questions and Answers
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PDSA ✔✔Plan, do, study, act
Quality improvement is used to make ✔✔improvements to a process
Quality improvement focuses on making an entire ✔✔system's outcomes better
What exactly are we going to do? ✔✔Plan
When and how did we do it? ✔✔Do
What were the results? ✔✔Study
What changes are we going to make based on our findings? ✔✔Act
Aim characteristics ✔✔time specific, measurable, define project
Plan: ✔✔Select your goals
Write down the goals with a ✔✔timeline
Do: ✔✔Implement change
Do: assign one person to be ✔✔responsible
, The surgery department's monthly case review revealed the need for the development of a new
innovation to meet better surgical patient outcomes. Which of the following would the Advance
Practice Nurse need to consider having as part of the innovation committee? ✔✔Surgeon, scrub
nurse, patient
An MSN needs to assign a staff member to assist a medical director in the development of a quality
program for a newly established service. Which of the following staff members is most appropriate
for this project? ✔✔a competent staff member who has good interpersonal skills
The MSN leader is regularly monitoring the number of inappropriate referral, the timeliness of
discharge planning, and the number of days of discharge delays. What additional monitor should
the MSN leader recommend to the Discharge Planning Team to be added to the process for
evaluating the appropriateness of discharge planning interventions? ✔✔attainment of discharge
planning goals
Pharmacy services and nursing are having difficulty developing an action plan for medication
errors. Pharmacy services states that nursing services cause the majority of the problems related to
errors, while nursing services states the opposite. The MSN Leader's role in resolving this problem
is to: ✔✔facilitate discussion between the groups to enable them to assume ownership of their
portions of the problem
In beginning a new quality improvement innovation, the designated committee identifies a need
for change in the medication reconciliation process, and creates a new documentation form that
covers all essential elements of the process. The committee also develops a way to assess monthly
compliance with use of the new form. These tasks represent which step of the PDSA model?
✔✔planning a change
An acute care hospital wants to change their information sharing policy. They currently share the
following information with patients only: diagnoses, care planning, medications, activity, and
discharge information. The change to the HIPAA privacy policy will enable personal health
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PDSA ✔✔Plan, do, study, act
Quality improvement is used to make ✔✔improvements to a process
Quality improvement focuses on making an entire ✔✔system's outcomes better
What exactly are we going to do? ✔✔Plan
When and how did we do it? ✔✔Do
What were the results? ✔✔Study
What changes are we going to make based on our findings? ✔✔Act
Aim characteristics ✔✔time specific, measurable, define project
Plan: ✔✔Select your goals
Write down the goals with a ✔✔timeline
Do: ✔✔Implement change
Do: assign one person to be ✔✔responsible
, The surgery department's monthly case review revealed the need for the development of a new
innovation to meet better surgical patient outcomes. Which of the following would the Advance
Practice Nurse need to consider having as part of the innovation committee? ✔✔Surgeon, scrub
nurse, patient
An MSN needs to assign a staff member to assist a medical director in the development of a quality
program for a newly established service. Which of the following staff members is most appropriate
for this project? ✔✔a competent staff member who has good interpersonal skills
The MSN leader is regularly monitoring the number of inappropriate referral, the timeliness of
discharge planning, and the number of days of discharge delays. What additional monitor should
the MSN leader recommend to the Discharge Planning Team to be added to the process for
evaluating the appropriateness of discharge planning interventions? ✔✔attainment of discharge
planning goals
Pharmacy services and nursing are having difficulty developing an action plan for medication
errors. Pharmacy services states that nursing services cause the majority of the problems related to
errors, while nursing services states the opposite. The MSN Leader's role in resolving this problem
is to: ✔✔facilitate discussion between the groups to enable them to assume ownership of their
portions of the problem
In beginning a new quality improvement innovation, the designated committee identifies a need
for change in the medication reconciliation process, and creates a new documentation form that
covers all essential elements of the process. The committee also develops a way to assess monthly
compliance with use of the new form. These tasks represent which step of the PDSA model?
✔✔planning a change
An acute care hospital wants to change their information sharing policy. They currently share the
following information with patients only: diagnoses, care planning, medications, activity, and
discharge information. The change to the HIPAA privacy policy will enable personal health
