Introduction and quality concern
Identify a quality issue/patient safety issue and provide a rationale.
Background and scope of the problem
Analyze the problem from a literature review and a practical point of view.
Goals of improvement
Identify three goals to improve the problem.
Quality philosophy application
Using a quality model, analyze the patient safety concern and the intervention to bridge the gaps.
Identification of the regulatory guidelines and internal/external benchmarks or EBP standards for this issue
Discuss all related factors to this problem and explain what the expectation is and why.
Quality process tool and improvement recommendation
Apply appropriate quality improvement tools to improve the quality outcome; provide illustrations for all tools used (flowchart, gap analysis, root cause analysis, etc.). Choose at least two tools for implementation.