Action 5: Integrate Professional Wellbeing into Quality Improvement

At a glance

In Action 5, integrate professional wellbeing measures into an ongoing quality improvement project at your hospital. Use the quadruple aim quality improvement framework to make sure that professional wellbeing is a priority in any quality improvement activities.

About the Action

Purpose

Integrate professional wellbeing measures into an ongoing quality improvement project at your hospital. It is important to consider the impact on your workforce when undertaking any quality improvement project and recognize that workers are at the center of healthcare systems.

Action 5 in a six-step sequence. It has an icon of a clipboard with a checklist and large checkmark at the top.
Action 5 is to integrate professional wellbeing into quality improvement.

Key concept

Quadruple Aim Quality Improvement recognizes professional wellbeing as a key outcome that is essential to improving your hospital.1 It helps ensure that quality improvement projects do not compromise professional wellbeing and rather measure the impact of these projects on the workforce.2

Action 5 Resources

Download the resources below to choose an ongoing quality improvement project and identify which professional wellbeing measures you will integrate into this project:

Quadruple Aim Quality Improvement Guide

Action 5 Quadruple Aim Quality Improvement Guide
Action 5 Quadruple Aim Quality Improvement Guide
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Action 5 Quadruple Aim Quality Improvement Guide
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List of Professional Wellbeing Measures

Action 5 List of Professional Wellbeing Measures
Action 5 List of Professional Wellbeing Measures
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Action 5 List of Professional Wellbeing Measures
Action 5 List of Professional Wellbeing Measures
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Customizable material

Explore customizable graphics and promotional materials to communicate about professional wellbeing efforts with your staff.

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Using these materials can help show your commitment to professional wellbeing.
Action 5 Poster
Action 5 Poster
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Action 5 Screensaver
Action 5 Screensaver
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Action 5 Facebook Graphic
Action 5 Facebook Graphic
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Action 5 X Graphic
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  1. Download and open the PDF. You will see a highlighted field of editable text. Each poster has a portion of bracketed text for you to type in your custom message. For example: [INSERT HOSPITAL-SPECIFIC URL].
  2. You can also customize the poster with your hospital’s logo. We recommend using a white logo with a transparent background. The preferred file type is a .png file. To insert the logo, click on the “LOGO IPSUM” graphic — from here, a window will open prompting you to select your logo file.
  3. After inserting the logo, be sure to save your customized poster.
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Content Source:
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
  1. Freeley D [2017]. The triple aim or the quadruple aim? Four points to help set your strategy. Boston, MA: Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
  2. Bodenheimer T, Sinsky C [2014]. From triple to quadruple aim: Care of the patient requires care of the provider. Ann Fam Med 12(6):573-576.