Decreasing births < 39 weeks gestation without
medical indication and improving birth registry
accuracy project
Creating Your Team Storyboard
Instructions and Tips for Success
Storyboard Instructions
• Use the 13 slides in this outline to create a storyboard that
describes your team’s work and improvements in the project. The
storyboard will allow you to share your successes, your challenges
and what you have learned.
• These slides should be customized to reflect your team’s efforts.
Feel free to insert pictures, graphs and narratives to create a
storyboard in the format you think best describes your team’s
progress.
• When you are finished adapting these slides, make a copy of each
one and bring them with you to the 5/30/13 Learning Session.
• You will be given a 40”x30” poster on a tripod and push pins to
attach your storyboard. You will also be given the opportunity during
the learning session to discuss your storyboard with other teams.
• Questions? Contact Beth White at [email protected] or
419.343.2166
Decreasing births < 39 weeks gestation without
medical indication and improving birth registry
accuracy project
(Insert Your Team’s Name)________Storyboard
Your Hospital
• Describe:
– Your hospital’s location
– Demographics of those you
serve
– Your health system’s
characteristics, perhaps your
mission statement, and/or
logo
– Some thing interesting that makes
your hospital unique
Tell us About Your Team
• The 2 keys to an effective team are a manageable size
and diversity.
1. If your team has a name, tell us how you chose the name
3. Tell us how you chose your team members
• Because of expert knowledge of OB? QI? IPHIS?
• Those who can work well together?
• A mix of administrative, medical, management, clerical and
bedside clinical care?
Team Picture
1
Introduce Your
Team Members
Leadership Support
• Insert an short comment or two about how your
hospital’s administrative and medical leadership facilitate
your work on this project
– Are they motivated and excited about the project?
– Are they active participants on calls and when sharing ideas?
– Do they help make the work of the team visible to other
departments?
– Do they allocate adequate time and other needed resources?
Your Team’s Experience with Peers
and Hospital Leadership
• Insert information through narrative or pictures
or graphs to describe some notable experiences
of your team.
• Tell us about how your team’s work is
understood and accepted by the unit staff and by
the medical staff and hospital administration.
• Explain what you have learned about getting
support from others who will influence the
success of your proposed changes.
Insert Your Aim Statement
The (your site)………………………………..
Intends to:………………………………………..
………………………………………….................
By date:………………………..……………
For (population):………………………………
Because:………………………………………………
………………………………………………………
……………………………………………………
Journey to Your Aim
• Explain how you decided what your aim will be.
• What is important to your team? Your patients?
Your organization?
• Did your team brainstorm different approaches
to your aim?
Insert Your Numeric Goals
• This shows how your team will answer the
second question of the Model for
Improvement: How we will know our
change is an improvement?
• Make sure your goals line up with your aim
Insert Your Process Flow Diagram
• Show your baseline process flow diagram
Your IPHIS-Patient Medical Record
Checklists
• Show your baseline and most recent
percentage of patient medical record to
IPHIS accuracy results
• You can choose to use a graph to show
your progress, or use one of the checklists
with summary information, or perhaps a
comparison chart showing progress in
accuracy of each of the variables.
Insert Your Tests of Change
• Display one or two…or more if you have
space…. of your PDSA cycles
Final Word
• You have the final word.
• What do you want to be sure
everyone knows is important
to your team?
• What is missing?
• Any advice for other teams?
• What would your team like to express?
In acknowledgement to IHI for
contributions to the structure
of this storyboard outline