Unit name | Quality Improvement in Healthcare |
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Unit code | MEEDM0034 |
Credit points | 0 |
Level of study | M/7 |
Teaching block(s) |
Academic Year (weeks 1 - 52) |
Unit director | Dr. Grant |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
Registration on the two linked units ie Patient Safety & Risk Management (0 credits) and the Healthcare Improvement Capstone Unit (40 credits). |
School/department | Bristol Medical School |
Faculty | Faculty of Health Sciences |
This unit aims to enhance learners ability to develop knowledge and skills around the use of Quality Improvement initiatives in the workplace. The learners will have the opportunity to plan, develop and implement their own QI project using their reflection of a patient safety event from the previous unit, Patient Safety and Risk Management.
The aim of this unit will be to:
1. Provide students with a detailed understanding of the rationale for and philosophy of Quality Improvement projects in the workplace context.
2. Provide students with a detailed understanding of the methodology involved in implementing a QI project, including planning, designing the project and analysing key stakeholder relationships to allow that implementation.
On completion of the unit, students should be able to:
A: Knowledge and Understanding:
B: Intellectual Skills /Attributes:
C: Other Skills /Attributes (Practical/Professional/Transferable):
The unit will be delivered through a mixture of self-guided study materials, real time and recorded lectures, web-based tutorials and discussions, case study work, readings, and activities. There will be some compulsory pre-course work which will include core readings and critical analysis which the students are required to carry out. The use of the Blackboard online learning environment will be actively pursued to develop students’ understanding and engagement with the unit content.
Formative Assessment:
1: Draft a written proposal on the implementation of a Quality Improvement project. This is then presented to tutors and the group. The proposal must be based on previous case report findings in the Patient Safety Unit formative assessment.
Student feedback given.
2: Write a 3000 word analytical report on the planning, delivery and implementation of that QI project. This report will form part of the Capstone report.
Students must successfully engage with this unit, which will be assessed by engagement with synchronous and asynchronous online activities and engagement with the formative assessment tasks.
No summative assessment is linked to this 0 credit unit. Assessment is delivered, and credit awarded, via the Healthcare Improvement Capstone Assessment Unit. Students will be expected to build on this formative written proposal in the Assessment Unit with a summative written project.
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How much time the unit requires
Each credit equates to 10 hours of total student input. For example a 20 credit unit will take you 200 hours
of study to complete. Your total learning time is made up of contact time, directed learning tasks,
independent learning and assessment activity.
See the Faculty workload statement relating to this unit for more information.
Assessment
The Board of Examiners will consider all cases where students have failed or not completed the assessments required for credit.
The Board considers each student's outcomes across all the units which contribute to each year's programme of study. If you have self-certificated your absence from an
assessment, you will normally be required to complete it the next time it runs (this is usually in the next assessment period).
The Board of Examiners will take into account any extenuating circumstances and operates
within the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes.