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Experiential Learning Assignment

The purpose of this assignment is to allow you to experience, on a first hand basis, what it's like to be a healthcare quality improvement professional in a real-time setting. This effort will help you appreciate the perspectives of behind the scenes and front line professionals involved in improving patient care in your setting.

This assignment counts for the experiential part of the course. If it's impossible for you to identify a professional to work with, notify your faculty IMMEDIATELY.

Assignment Description

• Choose a healthcare quality (QA/QI) professional. It can be a quality/safety/informatics/compliance professional or a nurse in QI decision-making position.
• Do not interview the same person from a previous class activities, or re-purpose a previous interview materials in anyway, shape, or form. This would be considered self-plagiarism.
• Note: Do NOT interview any nurse who is not directly involved with the specialties mentioned above. If you do, you will get fewer points, or you will be asked to re-do the assignment.
• Try to find someone you know or someone from within your organization to interview.
• In an appendix, you must include the interviewee's name, organization, position and business contact info. Personal email or cell phone # are not acceptable. Use the the Interviewee contact form opens in new window to fill out this information.
• You must submit the completed interviewee contact form with your written assignment, otherwise it will not be graded, and you will lose points as a result of any tardiness.
• Arrange to spend approximately 1 hour interviewing and 3 hours interacting with and/or shadowing that individual.
o The time spent can be of various methods such as phone conversation, face-to-face meeting, Zoom meetings etc.
o If the total time does not add up to 4 hours, that is fine.
o Count the time to prep for the interview and preparing the questions and analyzing the data toward the 4 hours spent on this experiential learning assignment.
• Using APA style, write a 3 to 4 page paper excluding title page and references.
• Include 2-3 cited sources, or as appropriate depending on content.
• To get full credit, please address each of the content areas listed in the rubric below.
• Upload the paper to the Dropbox by the posted assignment due date.

Select a professional to shadow/interview:
• Provide the contact information about the professional you interviewed.
• Also provide a description of the workplace where your interviewee is employed.
• Include how/why you chose to interview this particular person.
• Describe how you spend 4 hours interviewing and shadowing this person to learn about the position and the person(s) who are filling this role at the organization.

Describe the educational background of the interviewee:
• Academic Qualification, degree, certification
• Provide details on previous employment and the number of years in the current setting.
• Does the interviewee have CPHQ certification?
• Describe the academic program the professional attended. If this program an accredited by an accreditation body?
• If not, how did the interviewee obtain his/her expertise in quality assessment and quality improvement?

Describe the interview/shadowing experience:
• How did you prepare to talk with the interviewee?
• What kind of research did you do about this specific position?
• List example questions you pre-prepared
• What did you do during the shadowing?
• Where was the interview held?

Describe the work done by the interviewee:
• What is a typical day for this person at work?
• What impact, by this person, did you observe?
• What kind of workload does s/he have?
• List and briefly describe THREE different things that you learned in the interview and shadowing experience with the professional.
• Describe how you might implement or advocate for the TREE things that you learned in your current nursing position.

Writing Style and Structure:
• Well-organized and easy to follow train of thoughts
• Follows APA Format.
• Free of spelling, typographical, grammatical, and APA errors. Hint: have someone proof-read your paper before submitting it.
• Recent sources cited properly (<10 yrs old)
• Include title page and references
• Use headings and subheadings, page #, headers/footers as appropriate
• Sources are cited and referenced properly
• 4 page maximum excluding title and references. Points may be deducted for falling short on or exceeding page limit.