Question

You are trying to reduce admission time to your unit from the emergency department. You have completed several PDSA cycles and have reduced the time by 21 minutes. But in the most recent PDSA, the time actually increased by 6 minutes. What stage of the PDSA cycle should the team go to in order to plan the next steps?

Answer 1

Answer: Study.

Step-by-step explanation:

The PDSA cycle has four stages:

Plan: mapping the process through which the change is going to be implemented.

Do: refers to performing the test or change, by collecting the data and beginning the analysis.

Study: refers to the collection of data both before and after the change and analyzing the impact it had.

Act: designing the next cycle or full implementation.

In the Study stage, the analysis of the data gets completed, in addition to the data being compared to predictions, and a summary is made of what was discovered.