You have just been hired as Director of HIM at General Hospital. Your first task as Director is to develop a quality improvement project for a reduction in medication-related adverse events. The project must address the following:

• Issue/Problem
• Which stakeholders will you include in the project and why?
• Current Process
• Data Collection Tool(s) - actual tool(s) must be created
• Data Collection
  • How much data will you collect? Provide rationale
  • How long will it take to collect the data? Provide rationale
  • What obstacles might you encounter during data collection? How might you avoid these issues?
• After the data has been collected, which display methods will you utilize to display your data to report to the Quality Improvement Committee's dashboard? (you must choose a minimum of two). Why are these display methods the most effective mode of display for your data?
• You now have implemented an improvement based on the information collected. What will you do in order to monitor the implementation and what will determine if the implementation was successful?