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Curing PDSA Phobia Making PDSA Easy as PIE. Beth Hercher Laurie Gyscek Barbara Meadows. Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) What it Really Means. Plan —What is the situation or problem? Do-- What did I do about it? Study —Did it work? Act —Based on what I learned, what am I going to do now?.
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Curing PDSA Phobia Making PDSA Easy as PIE Beth Hercher Laurie Gyscek Barbara Meadows
Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) What it Really Means • Plan—What is the situation or problem? • Do-- What did I do about it? • Study—Did it work? • Act—Based on what I learned, what am I going to do now?
Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) The building block for change “That’s too complicated; I don’t have time for things like that.” “I’ve got patients to care for and situations to deal with.”
Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) The building block for change, cont. “I don’t have time to do PDSA cycles; I’m too busy trying to solve all these problems!”
Curing PDSA Phobia It’s simple as… P I E
Plan Implement Evaluate
Plan: • Identify the problem. • What steps you will take to try • to fix the problem? • Different actions? • New interventions? • Different equipment?
Implement: • Put your plan into action. • Test your interventions.
Evaluate: • Did your plan work? • Yes? OK, what now? • No? Why not? • What else can we try? Your answers will lead you right back to…
P I E Your next P I E cycle… Plan – Implement – Evaluate
Thank You! Nursing Home Patient Safety Teams 1-800-528-2655 This presentation and related materials were prepared by QSource, the Medicare quality improvement organization for Tennessee, under contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services. Contents do not necessarily reflect CMS policy.QSOURCE-TN-PS-2009-09