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.
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. Then identify which professional wellbeing measures you will integrate into this project.
Quadruple Aim Quality Improvement Guide
List of Professional Wellbeing Measures
Customizable materials
Explore customizable graphics and promotional materials to communicate about professional wellbeing efforts with your staff.
- 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].
- 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.
- After inserting the logo, be sure to save your customized poster.
- Freeley D [2017]. The triple aim or the quadruple aim? Four points to help set your strategy. Boston, MA: Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
- 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.