Reducing 30-Day Hospital Readmissions
• Choose a nursing issue that impacts your practice. The nursing issue may involve a structure, process, or outcome. Examples might include an increased number of patient falls, long wait times in the Emergency Department, high staff turnover, poor medication compliance in an outpatient setting, mandatory overtime
• Review the literature (including a minimum of eight peer-reviewed articles published within the last five years) related to the nursing issue.
• Your team is in charge of establishing a committee to address this issue.
• Establish membership of your committee including which disciplines should be represented and what individual responsibilities are.
• Provide goals and objectives for your committee.
• Provide a timeline for expected resolution of the issue and dissolution of committee.
• Provide guidelines for communication among committee members, including resolution of conflict.
• Provide budgeting, cost benefit analysis, and marketing plans.
• Describe how you will implement your evidence-based solution to the issue, addressing and measuring the effectiveness of your model.
• Students are expected to interview nursing and other healthcare leaders at their facility to help develop their committee.
• Students are also expected to attend interdisciplinary or interprofessional meetings to gain insight on the workings of teams and apply what they learned to their ideal team.
• Student groups will submit one 8–10 page paper for their group.
• Additionally, students will develop a 15–20 slide PowerPoint or Prezi presentation about their team and present to classmates.
• Students are expected to lead the discussion about their ideal team and the issue it is working to solve.
