As you are getting started on your 2018 quality
initiative, make sure to review the Onboarding
Checklist and begin by
following these steps:
1. Attend a Welcome Webinar and the ongoing
Coffee Breaks. Twice a month we hold
Coffee Breaks that take place in
combination with our Welcome Webinars.
These webinars provide an opportunity for newly enrolled
sites to become acquainted with the team and other
participants, and receive a streamlined presentation of
the onboarding process for getting started.
Save
the date! Our
next Coffee Break and Welcome
Webinar will be held
on this Monday, June 4th, at 3pm
ET. We will be holding the
Welcome Webinar for the first 45-minutes, directly
followed by a Coffee Break. If you have previously
attended a Welcome Webinar, feel free to dial in
solely for the Coffee Break.
2. Assemble a few
champions for your project. Ideally, project
champions are clinicians who are interested in
malnutrition care and can help support this effort
in your facility and engage others to
help enhance malnutrition care. Project
champions will help generate buy-in and support for
the effort at the leadership level of your
organization. You may find the MQii Learning
Collaborative educational video on “Engaging Your
Leadership” featuring Beverly
Hernandez Ph.D., R.D. Director, Clinical Nutrition
Services at Tampa General Hospital helpful for
this. The slides for this presentation are
attached to this email for
easy access to the helpful links presented.
3. Put together your
Project Team. Your project team
should be comprised of few individuals who will help
you run and manage your effort (e.g., assist with
assessing your current workflow, identifying your
project, training members of your care team). Watch
our educational video on “Building
Your Interdisciplinary Team” featuring Jill
Johnston, Clinical Nutrition Manager at West
Virginia University Hospital, for tips on assembling
your project team. The slides for this presentation
are also attached to this email.
4. Begin performing your
workflow mapping to assess how your facility
currently delivers care and where there might be
gaps. You can do this by
talking to other clinicians involved in the delivery
of malnutrition care to see what standard practice
is and compare it to the best practices outlined in
the Toolkit resources; pulling some initial data to
see where there might be gaps in the care being
delivered; or walking through the Care Assessment and
Decision
Tool to identify where your
facility's activities could be better aligned with
best practices.