Quality and Safety
This course focuses on quality and safety in healthcare. Historical and contemporary trends in quality and safety are addressed and major initiatives for quality and safety in healthcare are examined. The course is structured around the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses initiative.
This course is for RN-BSN students.
Outcomes: 1) Understand historical forces and events shaping quality and safety initiatives in health care; 2) Differentiate between quality and safety in healthcare and professional nursing practice; 3) Relate key knowledge, skills, and attitudes of patient-centered care, teamwork and collaboration, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, safety, and informatics to the contemporary health care system and professional nursing practice; 4) Understand the dimensions of patient-centered care and the factors influencing those dimensions; 5) Analyze the effectiveness of interprofessional teams; 6) Relate informatics and evidence-based practice to quality and safety for individuals, groups, communities, and populations; 7) Apply tools and processes in quality and safety initiatives.
This course is for RN-BSN students.
Outcomes: 1) Understand historical forces and events shaping quality and safety initiatives in health care; 2) Differentiate between quality and safety in healthcare and professional nursing practice; 3) Relate key knowledge, skills, and attitudes of patient-centered care, teamwork and collaboration, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, safety, and informatics to the contemporary health care system and professional nursing practice; 4) Understand the dimensions of patient-centered care and the factors influencing those dimensions; 5) Analyze the effectiveness of interprofessional teams; 6) Relate informatics and evidence-based practice to quality and safety for individuals, groups, communities, and populations; 7) Apply tools and processes in quality and safety initiatives.