8.1 What Can We Do Tomorrow?
- 5 minutes

This module brings everything together by focusing on practical tools, strategies, and relationships you can use immediately to move from learning to action. It emphasizes how small, consistent steps can build momentum and embed quality improvement into everyday practice.
Key Focus Areas: Proactive safety tools, focus studies, mentorship and peer learning, and building sustainable QI resources and habits.
What You Will Be Able To Do: Identify immediate actions you can take, apply practical tools to improve safety and processes, use short-term studies to generate insights, and leverage mentorship and resources to sustain and grow improvement efforts.
Getting Started: Begin with “What Can We Do Tomorrow?” to identify one small, actionable step. Choose a tool or approach from this module and apply it in your setting to start building momentum right away.
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Explore simple, actionable steps your team can take immediately to strengthen quality improvement efforts and build momentum for lasting change.
Learn how proactive safety tools, such as safety huddles, FMEAs, trigger tools, and checklists, help identify risks and improve patient safety before harm occurs.
Discover how focus studies provide quick, practical insights into workflows and processes, helping teams identify opportunities for improvement without extensive resources.
Learn how mentorship builds quality improvement knowledge, confidence, and leadership while fostering a culture of continuous learning and collaboration.
Explore tools, mentorship resources, and professional networks that support quality improvement efforts and help build long-term organizational capacity.
Review the key concepts from Module 8, including practical quality improvement tools, proactive safety strategies, mentorship, and resources that support continuous improvement.
Assess your understanding of practical quality improvement tools, proactive safety strategies, mentorship, and resources that support ongoing improvement.
View the complete list of references and source materials cited throughout Module 8.