Agency for Healthcare Research Quality (AHRQ) Are you ready to improve. Summarize the key CQI readiness factors

nt/improvement-guide/3-are-you-ready/index.html Blackboard Learn Return to Contents 3.A. Cultivating and Supporting QI Leaders Many health care organizations are highly resistant to change. Employees are not encouraged to solve problems their own, nor do they challenge the status quo. Most are accustomed to following standard operating procedures even when the policies and procedures may seem ineffective and outdated. Given the life and death issues confronted every day in most health care organizations, this risk-averse behavior is neither surprising nor hard to understand. for better solutions and creative new approaches to long-standing