Baseline data will J.B. want to collect

    Case Study - Specifics: Scholarly writing, APA 7th Edition, and limit to five pages (including references and title page). J.B. is a DNP student whose scholarly project will focus on decreasing or improving ANY quality metric (XXX) on her 40 -bed med/surg unit. Note: You choose a quality metric of importance, ie., COPD readmissions, VAP, CLABSI, CAUTI, Falls, Medication errors, or other, etc. QUESTIONS 1. What baseline data will J.B. want to collect before she plans her improvement work? 2. J.B. wants to compare the annual rate of XXX at her hospital to other hospitals. What national statistics will help her in this comparison? 3. Where might J.B. go to find evidence-based approaches to decreasing or improving XXX metric on a med/surg unit? 4. Which colleagues would be appropriate to invite to join J.B.’s XXX quality improvement team? answer? 5. What kind of data tools might J.B. use to analyze the cause of XXX on her unit and display XXX data over 6 month?