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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.

Write 4-page paper, excluding the title and references page. This is an interview assignment, so you must interview a registered nurse in the U.S. who has quality improvement and quality assurance certification to write this assignment.

The nurse can either be certified in quality/safety/compliance/informatics or has to have a quality improvement decision-making position.