Recently, we shared tools designed for taking your QAPI pulse using the QAPI Self-Assessment. After taking the assessment, you may have realized that you’re unfamiliar with your organization’s guiding principles.

“Every time you start out on a journey, you need something that guides you,” says Robert Floyd, PhD, Institute for Healthcare Improvement Open School instructor, in his whiteboard video, Model for Improvement.

To create a meaningful QAPI plan, you must know how/if the care provided by your facility is guided by a fundamental purpose or philosophy.

Use the QAPI Guide to Develop Purpose, Guiding Principles and Scope to help you identify your facility’s principles, as well as the QAPI Step 4: Identifying Guiding Principles Worksheet from the QAPI Companion Guide. Additional tools include

• Embracing QAPI webpage
• Nursing Home Change Package (particularly Strategy 1b: Let the mission drive your actions)

For in-depth help with QAPI, join atom Alliance nursing home collaborative.