Key task: • Use administrative and clinical data to recommend and prioritise quality improvement activities Suggested strategies: You should use data to identify risks, plan improvement strategies,...

Key task:
• Use administrative and clinical data to recommend and prioritise quality
improvement activities
Suggested strategies:
You should use data to identify risks, plan improvement strategies, and address gaps and
inconsistencies in your systems for the prevention and management of pressure injuries.
This may involve specific action at unit or service level as well as organisation-wide
changes such as improving policy or modifying training resources.
Actions may include:
• working with clinicians to analyse data and develop local solutions to identified issues
• resolving systems issues that may be identified (for example, timely access
to necessary equipment)
• making amendments to policy, procedures and/or protocols
• providing additional education and training for clinicians
• improving or developing communication material and information resources
for clinicians, patients and carers
• using an accepted practice improvement method to act on data showing areas for
improvement. This may include taking a multidisciplinary approach and the use
of Plan, Do, Study, Act cycles.
Outputs of improvement processes may include:
• relevant reports on analysis of pressure injury information
• risk register or log that includes actions to address identified risks
• quality improvement plan that includes actions to address issues identified
• examples of system-wide quality improvement activities that have been implemented
• examples of improvement activities that have been adapted and adopted at the local
level to reduce the frequency and severity of pressure injuries in high risk areas
• educational resources and records of workforce attendance at training on pressure
injury prevention and management
• communication material, including brochures, factsheets and posters developed
for the workforce and patients and carers.