Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Poster

Challenge/Expo

The Bax te r Qua l i t y Improvement AwardAwarded du r ing

Pa t ien t Sa fe ty Week a t Os le r November 11 -15 , 2013

The Baxter Quality Improvement Award

• This year’s poster challenge will be sponsored by Baxter. The Baxter Quality Improvement Award will be awarded to outstanding work in the following three categories (approved/requested by Baxter):

• Best Overall Quality Improvement Initiative

• Best Quality Improvement Initiative for building a Culture of Safety

• Best Quality Improvement Initiative towards Safe Medication Practices

A total of $3,000 awarded for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place

• Providing  recognition to nurses, professional practice staff and physicians whose quality improvement work is linked to the following strategic directions:– Promote excellence in quality care by

embracing the principles of unwavering commitment to patient inspired care at Osler.

– Have made an impactful significant change within the hospital or program by delivering exemplary care through patient safety focused quality improvement initiatives

Where to Start?

• Collaborate with your healthcare team and leadership to identify suitable projects for submission

• Identify key lead(s) to organize the poster contents

• Collect your data and information

• Design your poster—be creative!

• Submit your poster name to Patricia (Trish) Geerlinks

Keep in mind…

• You need to present a project that demonstrates improvement

• You need to have measured your quality initiative in order to know it demonstrates an improvement

• Back up your topic with literature/research

• Keep your presentation interesting for the reader—you only have 3-5 minutes to get your point across!

Keep in mind…

• You will be judged on content for sure but also format and presentation so versus saying what was done…show it

• Use pictures and graphics more than wordy sentences on slides

• Format is top to bottom, left to right (see sample slide)

• The template is a guide and you are not restricted to it

• Most of all….have fun!!

Key components of your poster

• Background• Purpose• Literature Review• Determine a Specific Topic and

Goal(s)• Description of Implementation• Knowledge Translation strategies• Evaluation: Quality Improvement• Evaluation: Key Success Factors• Significance of Project• Impact on Practice or the Practice

Environment• Introducing the Team• References

Determine a Specific Topic and Goal(s)

Description of Implementation (can identify Model for Improvement if one was used

Introducing the Team

References

• If you don’t have room on your poster for this slide you can have it printed out and available at the poster table for staff to take away.

Tips and Suggestions

Suggestions for Formatting: guide for use of space

Suggestions for Formatting: guide for content

Suggestions for Formatting: guide for flow of information

Suggestions for Formatting: guide for font use and size

Font UseTitleAuthorsAffiliationsSection HeaderTextAcknowledgments

Font Size96 pt72 pt

36-48 pt32 pt24 pt18 pt

Font type and size should be readable from 3 feet away

Suggestions for Formatting: guide for font colours

Formatting Tips Backgrounds should be complementary

Avoid red/green-colour blindness is common

Red Green

Unify poster- selecting one background colour

Purple suggest rank- do not use with black or grey

Yellow and red is a stimulating combination

Use complementary colour as an accent

Orange with blue or Blue with yellow are complementary

Blue and green are calming and a popular choice

Lighter shades create emphasis on dark backgrounds- Bleu/white or grey /black

White is stark but a high contrast to dark colours and black

Black is dramatic and a good background to bright colours

Suggestions for presenting your poster

• Don’t stand in front of your poster

• Be prepared to give a 1-2 minute overview

• Be prepared to answer questions

• The poster should speak for itself so you are only filling in verbal details

• Smile! Be proud of your success!