SL500159: Quality improvement project
[Page last updated: 27 November 2024]
| Academic Year: | 2024/25 |
| Owning Department/School: | Department of Life Sciences |
| Credits: | 15 CATS credits |
| Notional Study Hours: | 150 |
| Level: | FHEQ level 7 |
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| Assessment Summary: | CW 100% |
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| Learning Outcomes: |
On completion of this unit students will be able to:
1. Conceptualise a small work based project aimed at improving a key process, product or service (knowledge and understanding; key skill) 2. Evaluate key processes and activities in practice to determine whether there is scope for continuous improvement (professional practical skill; key skill) 3. Identify, critically assess and select an appropriate quality improvement tool and approach to enhance their own and others' practice (knowledge and understanding; professional practical skills; key skill); 4. Apply the relevant improvement tools to key practice processes and generate data and areas for improvement 5. Write up the findings of the project in a report suitable for presenting to employers or other key stakeholders. |
| Aims: | To apply key tools from the Quality Improvement movement to the continuous enhancement of pharmacy practice in specific professional settings. |
| Skills: | Knowledge and understanding (Quality improvement tools)
Professional practical skills (continuous improvement of practice) Transferable and Key skills (project design, report writing). |
| Content: | Key principles of quality improvement
Quality improvement approaches Quality improvement tools in practice (following Institute of Health Improvement approach): * Stage of Project tools * Type of Task tools * Type of Approach tools * 7 Ways to no delays * Patient Pathways How to produce a structured, work-related report. |
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SL500159 is Optional on the following courses:Department of Life Sciences
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