Explain how you will maintain ongoing improvement in this area long-term. The changes I made are making a significant impact on my work life balance. They aren’t difficult to maintain because I am able to use my phone for alarms, Writing my tasks each morning improve my ability to function throughout the day and not waste time.

Project Knowledge Within the Nursing Workplace Assignment

Personal Improvement Project Plan

Quality improvement is essential in the healthcare system, especially for healthcare facilities and nursing staff. That is because it helps ensure that the healthcare facilities provide the safest and quality healthcare services to the patients while ensuring that nursing staff balances their overall work for productivity and well-being (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2019-c).

Project Aim

My improvement project aims to improve how I handle and balance my work and home life and work closer to my standard 40 hours a week. Currently, I am working well over 40 hours, thus failing to meet my goal of spending quality time with my family. Therefore, the table will incorporate my workdays but exclude the weekends. The main reason for prioritizing my work and home life balance is because I have identified that my mental health status has been deteriorating ever since I accepted the nurse manager role. Prioritizing my time management will create a culture of well-being and will allow me to recharge instead of depleting my happiness. Project Knowledge Within the Nursing Workplace Assignment

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My concerns with my lack of home and work life balance, is creating a doubt in my mind that maybe I am not the right person for this nurse manager role. However, I am hopeful I will become more productive in my work and improve my relationships with my husband and children through my personal quality improvement project on time management. I will incorporate some crucial components in my project, including process analysis, measurement, changes, and project reflection and application.

Process Analysis

Quality improvement projects require engaging with effective models and procedures to identify the issues that may lead to an adverse effect. For instance, if I do not identify the main issue that influences my work-life balance, it may affect my well-being and relationship with my family. My plan will involve a root cause analysis method to identify all loopholes that may influence my quality improvement approach (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2019-d). Hence, the process I plan to take is to start with an improvement in my daily work hours each week for four weeks.

As Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (2022) postulates, process mapping

in a project is essential since it helps one identify the process and task owners and outline the expected timelines. As a result, I will build on each step by adding another tool to try and improve my hours. For example, in week 1, I will not engage any tool to evaluate how many hours I will work to act as my improvement process control. In week 2, I will write down the estimated time and tasks needing to be covered within that week. For Week 3, I will incorporate an alarm as a prompt to control the hours I work, especially in marking the completion of my hours. Lastly, in week 4, I will add an alarm to help me complete all tasks without delay. That will involve a 15-minute alarm that will notify me 15 minutes before departure. Furthermore, I will ensure that these alarms are on repeat mode to prevent me from forgetting to set them. The process mapping was made possible by collaborating with my director.

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Measurement

According to Wolfe, Taylor, and Subramanyam (2021), quality improvement measurement results in various improvement activities while looking at defining key processes or outcomes; the collection of relevant and substantial data; and analyzing and interpreting these data. Measurement helps evaluate current performance, set realistic goals, and monitor improvement interventions and efforts (Johnson & Sollecito, 2020). In that case, I chose to do my data collection by tallying every day’s work for the four weeks (Figure 2).

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