Efficiency and Effectiveness of the Quality Improvement Plan of the Facility The current quality improvement plan undertaken by the facility is dubbed the On-Time Quality Improvement for Long-Term Care Initiative. The effectiveness of this quality improvement (QI) plan is proven in some ways. The plan has significantly reduced the prevalence rate of pressure ulcers among the residents of the facility. Second, it has increased the speed at which the facility’s staff access crucial information relating to the residents. Before the implementation of the plan, access to critical information was an extremely slow process that took days. But presently, it only takes a matter of minutes for data to be accessed thanks to the web-based database. Third, the QI plan has significantly increased the job satisfaction levels of the facility’s staffs mainly because their work has become easier and they are actively involved in the entire process. Efficiency of the QI plan is illustrated by the amount of resources required to carry out certain activities. For instance, at present it only requires one staff to access and retrieve crucial data. In the past, the process was handled by more than one staff. As a result, the facility is now able to provide more services using the same resources (Ralston & Larson, 2005). Strengths and Weaknesses of the Quality Improvement Plan One of the key strengths of the QI plan of the facility is that it is a plan that is being undertaken by all the facility’s employees. As a result, all employees have a role to play in the quality improvement of the facility. This has tremendously increased the workers’ satisfaction as well as their team work ability. Most importantly, the QI plan enables the facility’s staffs to recognize any deteriorating health conditions of the residents and thus take the most appropriate actions before it is too late. This was impossible before the implementation of the plan. The main weakness of the QI plan is that it makes use of advanced computer and web-based technologies. Hence, employees who lack such skills are limited in the plan’s implementation. Recommendations to Improve the Weaknesses Identified Above To improve the weakness mentioned earlier, the facility should carry out regular training sessions for its employees to ensure that they are at par with the technologies and skills. New employees should go through training sessions to make them proficient not only in the technological skills but also in the plan’s execution. The Organization’s Practices for quality management: PDCA The facility makes use of the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) approach to quality management. The PDCA cycle is a tool that helps the facility to identify the processes and measure the outcomes for improvement, assess the approach for change, evaluate the data collected, and implement the QI strategy (Motwani, Klein & Navitskas, 1999). During the ‘Plan’ phase the facility: plans to inform the facility’s employees and families informing them of the new QI plan; plans for education of its employees regarding the QI plan; and plans for the training of its employees regarding the implementation of the QI plan. During the ‘Do’ phase the facility implements the abo