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burton19126 · **on:** Jul 8, 2018

A nurse manager wishes to implement the Model for Improvement with the rest of the team. The nurse manager knows that the Model for Improvement begins with three questions. Which of the following is not necessarily one of the three questions?

a. What are we trying to accomplish?
b. What change is needed for improvement?
c. What change can we make that will result in improvement?
d. How will we know that a change is an improvement?

Question 2

A student nurse read an article that mentioned PDSA. When the student nurse asks the nurse educator what PDSA is, the nurse educator responds that PDSA is:

a. a national quality improvement campaign.
b. process, demonstrate, supervise, and analyze.
c. an acronym for an EBP model.
d. a type of quality improvement outcome that is part of the 100,000 Lives Campaign.

okolip · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 8, 2018

Answer to Question 1

B
The three primary questions that the Model for Improvement begins with are What are we trying to
accomplish?, How will we know that a change is an improvement? (not What change is needed
for improvement?), and What change can we make that will result in improvement? These three
questions begin the PDSA cycle for improvement for this model.

Answer to Question 2

C
The Model for Improvement, an evidence-based practice (EBP) model, uses the plan-do-study-act
(PDSA) format as the basis for its process.