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Rapid Improvement Strategies: Slide Presentation


Submitter Information


Name: Shirley M. Moore
Title: Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Nursing
Credentials: RN, PhD, FAAN
Organization: School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University
Email: Shirley.moore@case.edu
Address 1: 10900 Euclid Av.
City: Cleveland
State: OH
ZIP: 44106

Teaching Strategy


Competency Category(s):
Learner Level(s):
  • Pre-licensure ADN/diploma
  • Pre-licensure BSN
  • RN to BSN
  • New graduates/transition to practice
  • Graduate students
  • Staff development
  • Continuing education

Learner Setting(s):
  • Clinical settings
  • Online or web-based modules
  • Classroom
  • Independent study

Strategy Type:
  • Other
Slides that contain most of the content for lecture presentation

Learning Objectives:

Describe the key focuses of rapid improvement strategies Compare traditional and rapid improvement strategies Apply rapid improvement strategies to an improvement initiative

Strategy Overview:

One of the criticisms of CQI is that it can take a long time to plan, test, and evaluate an improvement. Making fast changes lasting and pervasive, rapid improvement strategies speed things up without changing the nature of necessary improvement activities. These slides have been used to teach rapid improvement strategies in both small and large groups and in an electronic course on CQI. They have been used with professional audiences (health professionals engage in quality improvement, and with students learning quality improvement. The students have ranged from undergraduates to physicians and other professionals learning about process improvement. I usually have the group do an in-class on online exercise following these slides in which they redesign a current improvement project they are doing by applying the rapid improvement strategies, thus allowing them to experience the usefulness of these techniques to speed up the improvement process and learn the strategies.


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  • MS Powerpoint documents

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Additional Materials:

I would be happy to provide more information on the use of rapid improvement strategies and how to teach them. I am best reached at Shirley.moore@case.edu


Evaluation Description


This class on rapid improvement strategies has been rated highly by students over the past 6 years. Most important is that they describe in their improvement projects how they applied the rapid improvement strategies. Our students are required not just to do an improvement project, they must show that they integrated rapid improvement strategies.