Quality Improvement
Definition
"Use data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and use improvement methods to design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of health care systems."
KSAs
To review the proposed knowledge, skills and attitudes (KSAs) for nursing education on Quality Improvement, see the following pages:
Annotated Bibliography(ies)
For a list of resources on Quality Improvement, see the following page:
Related Teaching Strategies
Clinical settings
- Clinical Evaluations Using KSA's:Developing Tools and Strategies
- Rapid Improvement Strategies: Slide Presentation (Graduate Level)
- Senior Nursing Student Capstone Clinical Integration Paper: Incorporating Quality and Safety Competencies
- Medication Reconciliation
- Staff work-arounds assignment
- Website Evaluation Exercise
- Data Mining: Directed data collection exercise
- Interdisciplinary CQI Course Syllabus (Graduate Level)
- Student Interdisciplinary Team CQI Field Project (Graduate Level)
- Little Room of Errors
- Student Innovator Award
- Quality Improvement Exercise for Seniors
- Focusing on QSEN competencies during high-fidelity simulation The role of the observers
Skills or simulation laboratories
- Developing A QSEN Competency Checklist for Simulation Experiences
- Little Room of Errors
- Quality Improvement Exercise for Seniors
- Integrating QSEN Competencies into a Capstone Simulation
Online or web-based modules
- Rapid Improvement Strategies: Slide Presentation (Graduate Level)
- Interdisciplinary CQI Course Syllabus (Graduate Level)
- Using Process Flow Charts to Improve Clinical Care (Graduate Level)
- Introduction to Quality and Safety in Nursing
Classroom
- Rapid Improvement Strategies: Slide Presentation (Graduate Level)
- Medication Variance Report: Authentic Assessment Exercise
- Medication Reconciliation
- Interprofessional Curriculum in Patient Safety and Quality Improvement
- Interdisciplinary CQI Course Syllabus (Graduate Level)
- Student Interdisciplinary Team CQI Field Project (Graduate Level)
- Using Process Flow Charts to Improve Clinical Care (Graduate Level)
- Introduction to Quality and Safety in Nursing
- Student Innovator Award
- Quality Improvement Exercise for Seniors
- Quality and Safety Education for Nurses: An Introduction to the Competencies and the Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes