Preparing the Assignment
Follow these guidelines when completing each component of the assignment. Contact your course faculty if you have questions.
The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) ensures the quality of client care using defined standards. Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS)Links to an external site. is a performance measurement tool millions of health insurance plans use. HEDIS includes six domains of care:
- Effectiveness of Care
- Access/Availability of Care
- Experience of Care
- Utilization and Risk Adjusted Utilization
- Health Plan Descriptive Information
- Measures Collected Using Electronic Clinical Data Systems
Expand each HEDIS domain to review the associated performance measures. Select one NCQA HEDIS performance measure related to your future practice area.
General Instructions
- Download the Week 5 Nurse Practitioner Quality Measures Worksheet TemplateLinks to an external site.. Use of this template is required. If the template is not used, a 10% deduction will be applied. See the rubric. Save the template and include your name in the file name.
- Follow APA grammar, spelling, word usage, and punctuation rules consistent with formal, scholarly writing.
- Provide an in-text citation from three scholarly sources to support your writing.
- Abide by Chamberlain University’s academic integrity policy.
Include the following sections (detailed criteria listed below and in the grading rubric).
- Identification of the Selected Performance Measure
- Identify the selected performance measure.
- Analyze the selected performance measure for clinical significance and evidence base.
- Describe practical implications for practice.
- Provide an in-text citation from one scholarly source to support your writing.
- Implementation Planning
- Develop a quality improvement plan for implementing the selected performance measure in your current or future practice, including:
- Strategies for client education
- Clinical workflow integration
- Documentation
- Provide an in-text citation from one scholarly source to support your writing.
- Develop a quality improvement plan for implementing the selected performance measure in your current or future practice, including:
- Measurement
- Identify a tool or data collection technique to measure the outcomes of implementing the selected performance measure. (e.g., survey, statistical analysis, etc.)
- Describe how the tool can be successfully implemented.
- Provide an in-text citation from one scholarly source to support your writing.
- Application to Practice
- Discuss how the interventions can improve client outcomes.
- Discuss how the interventions can improve cost savings for the practice.
- Discuss how the interventions can improve client ratings (on an NP’s client scorecard).
- Provide an in-text citation from one scholarly source to support your writing.
- Reflection
- Reflect on the importance of using NCQA HEDIS performance measures in clinical practice.
- Identify two key takeaways to apply to your current or future practice.
Week 5 Assignment Update – HEDIS Information – Please Read!
Dear Students:
Please see the information below to help you complete your Week 5 assignment.
HEDIS Domains
Effectiveness of Care
Access/Availability of Care
Experience of Care
Utilization and Risk Adjusted Utilization
Health plan descriptive information
Measures reported using electronic clinical data systems
In each of these domains are specific performance measures. Please see the attached document that outlines the specific measures under each of these HEDIS domains. You must use a specific performance measure for this assignment. DO NOT use the broad domain for your discussion.
For instance, under Effectiveness of Care, you will see in the document “Lead Screening in Children.” The abbreviation for this specific performance measure is LSC. You could use this topic to complete this Week 5 assignment.
