Quality and Safety in Professional Nursing Practice
** available as of 06/15/2027
** available as of 06/15/2027
This course focuses on quality and safety as interdependent concepts. Quality and safety from the provider and recipient of care perspectives are emphasized, along with organizational and societal factors that contribute to a culture of safety and quality. The professional nurse role in improving quality and safety individually, and within the intraprofessional and interprofessional care teams is a focus of this course.
Outcomes: Analyze common and distinct attributes and indicators of quality, safety, and cultures of quality and safety; Compare provider, organizational, and societal factors that influence quality and safety; Implement strategies to improve patient care outcomes at the individual, group, and community levels; Compare models and processes of quality, safety, quality improvement, and process improvement; Analyze the nursing role in improving healthcare quality and safety through individual, intraprofessional, and interprofessional actions.
Outcomes: Analyze common and distinct attributes and indicators of quality, safety, and cultures of quality and safety; Compare provider, organizational, and societal factors that influence quality and safety; Implement strategies to improve patient care outcomes at the individual, group, and community levels; Compare models and processes of quality, safety, quality improvement, and process improvement; Analyze the nursing role in improving healthcare quality and safety through individual, intraprofessional, and interprofessional actions.