October 2023 Newsletter
We are encouraged by the initiative and tenacity that our participants have shown, from bringing this opportunity to your emergency department (ED) to continued work with your hospital administration and legal departments to secure access to the National Pediatric Readiness Quality Initiative (NPRQI) data portal.
As we enter Phase 3 in the PRQC journey, we are seeing participating sites organizing their multidisciplinary teams, finalizing the selection of a clinical area of focus, and utilizing NPRQI to collect baseline data.
Over the next three months, your ED team will embark on your first Plan, Do, Study, Act (PDSA) cycle.
The Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle is shorthand for testing a change — by planning it, testing it, observing results, and acting on what has been learned.
Plan
At the end of these three months, your team will decide whether to adopt, adapt, or abandon the current cycle within your ED. Your team will reflect on this performance and collectively decide whether to embrace or discard this change strategy, thereby completing a PDSA cycle. Feel free to abandon a change strategy; there are no failures in QI, just learning.
Do
Study
Act
We would love to hear from YOUR site about your plans for this first PDSA cycle. If you would like to share any small or big success you have experienced, your SMART Aim, or a change strategy your team feels inclined to implement, please share at collaboratives@emscimprovement.center. We are excited to highlight all the work and would like to provide opportunities to learn from one another and exchange ideas. These presentations will start during our next session on October 17.
Is your site ready to implement its first change strategy?
Make sure you have:
- Completed the environmental scan
- Developed an implementation plan
- Identified a clinical area of focus
- Entered 25-30 patient encounters for baseline data
Please make every effort to complete baseline data entry to ensure your site keeps pace with the collaborative and completes 3-4 PDSA cycles by December 2024. By working through at least 3-4 PDSA cycles, your site will develop and implement strategies that ensure the sustainability of your efforts, ultimately leading to improvements that will surpass the initial performance achieved in the first few PDSA cycles.
View PRQC overall data entry status as of October 6, 2023.
Issues accessing the NPRQI data portal?
If you have received your secure login credentials and still having issues with accessing the NPRQI data portal, please email Clario Support Team. If you need to add or remove users, please email liza.hinojosa@austin.utexas.edu.
Haven't registered yet? Register today for NPRQI!
REGISTER TODAY FOR THE OCTOBER 17, 2023 PRQC SESSION