Personal Improvement Projects Examples of Posters

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Personal Improvement ProjectsExamples of Posters

• Exempler fra Norge og Sverige

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Personal Improvement Project Exercise is
healthy during the whole year

• Student Agnes Lovise Jacobsen
• Nursing program
• Faculty of Health Social Sciences
• Bergen College, Norway

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Improvement areaPhysical exercise

• Problem
• To little physical exercise
• The body is not in shape
• Wish more surplus
• Over all a wish to be in better shape, physically
  and psychically

• Goal
• Start exercise twice a week in addition to bike
  to and from the school
• Increase to 3-4 times after a while

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PDSA cycle
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A
D
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• Plan
• Record my exercises
• Make a flow-chart to map my day and possibilities
  of exercising
• Map why Im not exercising
• Exercise twice a week jogging, aerobic, walking,
  biking
• Alone or with friends
• Do
• Start jogging twice a week
• Record exercise/jogging

• Act
• There is other ways to exercise than using health
  studios
• Jogging shoes is the only thing you need
• Increase the frequence of exercise to 4 times a
  week
• Study
• The result shows that Im on my way to exercise
• twice a week in addition to biking to and from
  school

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Check sheet week 49-2
Biking to and from school
Jogging
Walking
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FLOW-CHART Possibilities for exercise
Exercise?
Wake up
Morning toilet
Breakfast
Bike to school
No
Schoolday
Yes
Exercise
Bike from school
Exercise?
Exercise?
Exercise?
No
No
Yes
Dinner
Schoolwork
Friends
Yes
Yes
Exercise
No
Exercise
Exercise
Supper
Sleep
TV
Evening toilet
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Cause / Effect-diagram
Others
Time
Studies
Lack of money
TV
Headache
Boyfriend
Darkness outside
Housework
Family
Cinema
Friends
Backpain
To little exercise
Bad shape
Early awake
Stress
Sleep late
Long schooldays
Jogging is boring
Cold icy
Bad eating habits
Long time since last time
Little surplus
Tiredness
Motivation
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Lessons learned

• Physical exercise is free of charge
• Jogging shoes is the only need
• Tiredness and motivation are the main causes not
  to exercise
• More difficult to start when I delay the problem
• I have always time for exercise - it is about
  priority
• Important to make realistic goals and increase
  the demands when goals are achieved!

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Personal Improvement Project Improving study
habits

• Student Iren Hovlid
• Nursing program
• Faculty of Health Social Sciences
• Bergen College, Norway

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Improvement areaStudy habits

• Problem
• I am not reading enough to get through the
  syllabus before the examination

• Goal
• Read 150 pages per week

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PDSA cycle 1
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D
S

• Act
• Have to organise my day, and find out why I am
  not reading enough
• New PDSA-cycle
• Study
• 79 pages are read
• The problem is documented

• Plan
• To get an overview of my study habits I have to
  map when, how often and how much I am studying
• Do
• Record number of pages and time used to study
• Data analysis

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Check sheet 1
79 pp this week (the goal is 150 pp) Tendence to
study less towards the end of the week Much of
the study time is ineffective
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FLOW-CHART From waking up to bedtime
Study?
No
Wake up
Morning toilet
Breakfast
Schoolday
Hungry?
Yes
Yes
Eating
Study
No
Study?
Yes
Study
No
Study?
Study?
No
No
Sleep
TV, eat, social activities
Do other things
TV
Yes
Yes
Study
Study
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Cause / Effect-diagram
Social
Time
Working
Friends
TV
Boyfriend
Housework
Family
Cinema
To little studies
Phone calls
Boring reading material
Tired
Food making
Reading is boring
Reading other things
Other more fun things to do
TV
Difficult to get starting
Lack of motivation
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Frequent causes for not studying(number of
events)
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PDSA cycle 2
P
A
D
S

• Act
• Important to keep on reading until the goal is
  achieved
• New PDSA-cycle is not necessary
• Study
• 148 pages are read this week
• The goal is achieved

• Plan
• Continue reading
• Goal 150 pp per week
• Do
• Be focused when reading
• Do not wait to start
• Record number of pages and time used to studying

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Check sheet 2
148 pp this week (the goal 150 pp is achieved)
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Run chart Number of pages read each day
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Run chart Number of reading hours each day
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Personal Improvement Project

• Resident Ewa Henckel
• Department of Pediatrics, Huddinge University
  Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

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INCREASE TIME SPENT WITH MY HUSBAND
PROBLEM Too little time spent with my husband
GOAL Double the time spent with my husband
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PDSA cycle
PLAN How much time can I spend with my husband?
What are the hinders?
DO Measure time spent together and the quality
of it every day for 2 weeks
ACT Other steps possible to take to have more
quality time?
STUDY Evaluate how time is used and our
priorities
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Time spent together during 2 weeks (in hours)
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How do we spend time together? (measured in hours)
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When do we find time together?
Time together
Good Morning
Breakfast together?
Yes
No
Work
Good Night
Time together
Home?
Y e s
N o
Yes
Own activity
Own Activity
Time together?
No
Home
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Reasons for too little time spent together
Other
Household
Decorating
Friends
Too little time spent with my husband
Laundry
Exercise
Shopping
Hobbies
Cooking
Cleaning
TV
Education/ courses
Research
Medical litterature
Husbands work
Own work
Studies
Work
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Result

• Time spent together every week comes to around 32
  hours
• Time together have different qualities
  householdwork, meals, friends, activity with
  family etc
• Necessary to find more quality-time with husband

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Suggestions for improvement without taking away
hobbies

• Get help with cleaning
• Stop watching television (TV)
• Have more meals together, for instance try to
  have breakfast together
• New PDSA-cycle includes testing of new ideas

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Personal improvement projectMore time to study
ethics

• Resident Elisabeth Kullenberg
• Department of Pediatrics, Ängelholms Hospital,
  Ängelholm, Sweden

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Improvement areaTime to study ethics

• Problem I am not organizing my time to get time
  to study ethics and write my thesis

• Goal To organize my day and get enough time to
  study ethics and write my thesis

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PDSA cycle 1

• Act
• I have to organize my day better
• New PDSA-cycle
• Study
• 3 hours and 30 minutes of studying this week

• Plan
• I have to find out how I use my time by making a
  flow-chart of a normal working day, register how
  much time I use to study and the reasons why I am
  not studying enough
• Do
• Register the time I am studying during one week
• Document and make diagrams

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Cause / Effect-diagram
Social
Work
Phone calls
Meetings
Friends
Courses daytime
Husband
TV
Overtime
Evening work
Children
Help father
Evening courses
Trade union
Events
To little studying
Laundry
No inspiration to start
Newspaper
Cooking
The subject
Structure the content
Shop
Time
Housework
Others
Lack of motivation
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Flowchart How do I use a normal day?
Work 8.00 17.00
No
Yes
Home 18.00 Eat, read etc.
Spare time?
Good morning
Breakfast, Newspaper
Home?
Yes
No
No
Ethical studies
Time to study?
Work/meeting
Yes
Home 21.30
Yes
Ethical studies
Time to study?
No
Evening shower
Other activities
Good night
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Check sheet 1
Total studytime 3 hours and 30 minutes
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Run chart 1 Number of reading hours each day
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PDSA cycle 2

• Act
• Have created more time for studying
• Continuing to organize my day this way
• Study
• Analyse the data
• 7 hours and 30 minutes studying this week

• Plan
• Find more time to study ethics
• Do
• Less time reading newspapers in the morning
• Be more motivated in general
• Less/shorter phonecalls
• Register time studying during one week

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Check sheet 2
Total studytime 7 hours and 30 minutes
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Run chart 2 Number of reading hours each day
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Personal Improvement Project A clean desk

• Resident Karin Åkesson
• Department of pediatrics, Ryhov County Hospital
• Jönköping, Sweden

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Improvement areaA messy desk

• Problem
• My desk is never clean enough.

• Goal
• To get a clean desk by organizing the things that
  always are lying there

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PDSA cycle 1
P
A
D
S

• Act
• What changes can I do to reach my goal a clean
  desk?
• New PDSA-cycle
• Study
• Analyse the data
• A lot of different papers are left on the desk
  each day

• Plan
• To get an overview of my desk I have to know what
  is on it and why things are still there.
  Flow-chart my working day at home
• Do
• Register what I put on the desk each day during
  two weeks
• Document and make diagrams.

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New papers on the desk during 2 weeks
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Run chart Number of new things on the desk each
day during 2 weeks
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FLOW-CHART A working day at home
Start working
Turn on my computor
Work
Put papers on the desk
Time to pick up in daycare
Clean the desk?
Papers left on the desk
No
Clean the desk?
No
Yes
Stop working
Papers left on the desk
Pick up in daycare
Bedtime
Dinner
Papers left on the desk
Put more papers on the desk
Work
No
Clean the desk?
Yes
Put the kids to bed
Work
Bedtime for the kids
Put more papers on the desk
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Cause / Effect-diagram
Social
Time
Friends
Cooking
Phone
Cleaning
Unplanned interruptions
Husband
Working short periods
Children
A messy desk
Find things anyway
Put too many new things on the desk
Priorite other things
No good system
Noone but me sees the desk
The amount
Lack of motivation
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PDSA cycle 2
P
A
D
S

• Act
• Important to keep on putting things back until
  the goal is achieved
• New PDSA-cycle is not necessary
• Study
• Only five extra things were on the desk this
  week
• The goal is almost achieved

• Plan
• Make folders to organize the different papers
• Goal a clean desk
• Do
• Never let the desk be messy
• Put things back in folders were they belong
• Continue to measure things that still are on the
  desk

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New papers on the desk before and after taking
action
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Run chart Number of new things on the desk
before and after taking action