You are a director of the quality improvement department for a large trauma center. For your department, you feel there is a need to purchase a full-scale simulation room. This simulation room would be outfitted with the latest tools and simulations for wound management, sterile surgical process, infection control, and line placements

Part one:

You are a director of the quality improvement department for a large trauma center. For your department, you feel there is a need to purchase a full-scale simulation room.

This simulation room would be outfitted with the latest tools and simulations for wound management, sterile surgical process, infection control, and line placements.

The overall goal would be to decrease reinfection rates. The capital need for the simulation center is $500,000, with producing a decrease in cost for reinfection rates of $120,000 per year.

Q1) What type of analysis do you need to do?
Q2) Who are the stakeholders you need at the table?

Part Two:

Reflect on a time that you or a family member were a patient.

• Q1 Describe the healthcare setting and the overall care delivery experience.
• Q2 Did you or your family member participate in a patient experience survey?

Part three:

As part of the effort to increase your organization’s reliance on data for planning, operation, and management, your data analytics team is looking at ways to better collect and analyze data in your organization. Based on what you learned this week, address the following:

Q1) Highlight the benefits of employing data analytics for decision making in your organization.

Q2) What are some of the limitations of predictive analytics? Consumer behaviors may change and this may limit the validity of your analysis, for example.