| Week and Chat Date: Wednesdays |
WEEKLY TOPICS |
Objectives: At the end of the week, the participant will be able to: |
Assignments and Student Activities |
| Week
1: 04 Sep 2002 |
Introduction to CQI and DMAICú in Extracorporeal Therapy
Services (ECT)
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- define and comprehend the basic terminology and steps of
process improvement (PI)
- appreciate the historic development of TQM and Six-Sigma
PI
- describe the regulatory body requirements for the role of
CQI in their clinical practice
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- Read R&S: Pages _____
- Complete Module 1 on-line
- Contribute to the threaded discussion for week 1
- Participate in Chat Room
- Complete Week 1 Quiz after Chat Room session
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| Week 2: 11 Sep 2002 |
Defining clinical problems: Health Care Failure Mode and Effect
and Analysisú |
- define and appreciate FMEA in health care
- apply FMEA to their clinical practice
- comprehend and appreciate the team approach to clinical
error reduction
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- Read R&S: Pages _____
- Complete Module 2 on-line
- Contribute to the threaded discussion for week 2
- Participate in Chat Room
- Complete Week 2 Quiz after Chat Room session
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| Week 3: 18 Sep 2002 |
Measuring and reporting clinical events and errors |
- organize a method to identify events and errors in their
care area(s)
- identify a patient-related problem(s) in their clinical
practice
- select and analyze a problem or process to improve
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- Read R&S: Pages _____
- Complete Module 3 on-line
- Contribute to the threaded discussion for week 3
- Participate in Chat Room
- Complete Week 3 Quiz after Chat Room session
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| Week 4: 25 Sep 2002 |
Analysis of variables; Basic statistical approach to error
reduction |
- appreciate the computer-based tools available to perform
basic statistical analysis
- perform basic descriptive statistical analysis for a data
set of clinical observations
- create a basic report for clinical error reporting
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- Read R&S: Pages _____
- Complete Module 4 on-line
- Contribute to the threaded discussion for week 4
- Participate in Chat Room
- Complete Week 4 Quiz after Chat Room session
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| Week 5: 02 Oct 2002 |
Statistical approach to error reduction (Con't.) |
- appreciate the computer-based tools available to perform
event trend and comparison analysis
- appreciate the difference between common cause and special
cause variation in clinical event trending
- identify a significant clinical trend in a set of
observations
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- Read R&S: Pages _____
- Complete Module 5 on-line
- Contribute to the threaded discussion for week 5
- Participate in Chat Room
- Complete Week 5 Quiz after Chat Room session
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| Week 6: 09 Oct 2002 |
Improving health care processes; Personal project design |
- step from analysis to planning protocol changes to affect
improvement
- appreciate the importance of team cooperation in PI
- select a personal PI project based on their clinical site
event monitoring
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- Read R&S: Pages ___
- Complete Module 6 on-line
- Contribute to the threaded discussion for week 6
- Participate in Chat Room
- Complete Week 6 Quiz after Chat Room session
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| Week 7: 16 Oct 2002 |
Controlling health care processes; Personal project design |
- outline the change in a clinical protocol to affect an
improvement in an event of clinical outcome variable
- appreciate how to communicate a PI plan to teammates
- share their selected PI
- describe, appreciate and communicate the CQI DMAIC circle
as it applies to their personal course project
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- Read R&S: Pages ___
- Complete Module 7 on-line
- Contribute to the threaded discussion for week 7
- Participate in Chat Room
- Complete Week 7 Quiz after Chat Room session
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| Week
8: 23 Oct 2002 |
Individual project abstract presentations; Discussion of
personal projects |
- post and present their individual clinical project on-line
- to read, react to and provide feedback for classmatesâ
individual projects
- accept feedback from classmates in regard to their
individual project
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- Read R&S: Pages ___
- Complete Module 8 on-line
- Contribute to the threaded discussion for week 8
- Participate in Chat Room
- Complete Week 8 Quiz after Chat Room session
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| Week 9: 30 Oct 2002 |
Individual project abstract presentations (Cont.) |
- update their individual PI project based on classmatesâ
feedback
- continue to read, react to and provide feedback for
classmatesâ individual evolving projects
- continue to accept feedback from classmates in regard to
their individual project
- collect data for their individual project if possible
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- Read R&S: Pages ____
- Complete Module 9 on-line
- Contribute to the threaded discussion for week 9
- Participate in Chat Room
- Complete Week 9 Quiz after Chat Room session
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| Week
10: 06 Nov 2002 |
Selected case scenarios; Wrap-up |
- continue to update their individual PI project based on classmatesâ feedback
- continue to read, react to and provide feedback for classmatesâ individual evolving projects
- summarize and share their individual project plan and results
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- Read R&S: Pages ____
- Complete Module 10 on-line
- Contribute to the threaded discussion for week 10
- Participate in Chat Room
- Complete Week 10 Quiz after Chat Room session
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This CQI-ECT syllabus is subject to change at
anytime. Last update: 17 August, 2002
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