The 1st Annual Crossing the Quality Chasm Summit A Focus on Communities: Report of a Summit (2004) / Chapter Skim
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7 Coalition Building
7 Coalition Building
Pages 77-84
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In addition to those topics, a session on coalition building was added in response to feedback received during preliminary inquiries with summit community participants. Since coalitions were viewed as an effective structure for catalyzing change, additional knowledge and skills for developing mechanisms for community engagement were a priority for community participants.
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At the summit, group of people with varied agendas, slowly four community coalitions shared their developing trust, and then building consensus strategies and lessons learned in engaging many on what must be done to achieve a mutually diverse groups around a mutual goal: the desired outcome (Greenleaf, 1983)
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. The former initiative was featured at the summit for its work dedicated to improving pain management in cancer, as well as in other conditions requiring pain control, which spans a range of care settings from physicians' offices to nursing homes and hospices (Farley et al., 2003)
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This multifaceted approach was adopted to ensure that all the forces influencing high-quality asthma care would be addressed in a cohesive fashion. A window of opportunity presented itself to the coalition when the State of New Jersey passed a law requiring that asthma action plans be on file for all children carrying inhalers and that school nurses and personnel receive asthma education- all within a 180-day time frame.
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Box 7-5 · Greater than 95 percent of outlines strategies proposed by this working cancer patients report that their group to heighten awareness of the current gaps pain was less than 5 on a scale in heart failure care within the community, and of 0 to 10. thereby motivate initiatives to achieve the Or needed improvements.
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Hospitals participating in the program are provided with a number of resources, such as an intervention toolkit complete with standing orders, nursing critical pathways, and a discharge contract. Additionally, clinicians and administrators have access to a physiciannurse team trained in guideline implementation, and each participating institution is given a report card documenting performance on standardized heart failure quality indicators.
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Annual Scientific Session Poster Presentation. - Develop local demonstration PowerPoint Presentation.
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