Quality improvement into practice

Embedding Quality Improvement Change into Nursing Practice

Kai Tiaki Nursing Research September 2012 vol 3 no 1 24 Patricia Mitchell Involving clinicians, especially nurses, is critical to improving quality in health care. In this paper, we report on a study that explored nurses’ perceptions of quality improvement (QI) change. Health care organisations and governments, both in New Zealand and other developed countries, are striving to reduce escalating...

Quality improvement in general practice

Integrating quality improvement into pre-registration education.

Healthcare organisations around the world are adopting new strategies to improve the quality of patient care in response to reports of negative patient outcomes and cuts to public service expenditure. However, many nurses lack the knowledge, skills and attitude to improve the systems within which they work, calling for a radical redesign of nursing education to integrate quality improvement sci...

Achieving quality oncology practice initiative certification through quality improvement.

The public and healthcare payers are increasingly looking to specialty designations and certifications to determine the quality of cancer centers. The Quality Oncology Practice Initiative (QOPI®) Certification Program is one way for cancer centers to demonstrate commitment to high-quality patient care. Achieving QOPI certification for the author's cancer center was driven by a nurse-led quality...

Echocardiography Practice: Insights into Appropriate Clinical Use, Technical Competence and Quality Improvement Program

Echocardiography accounts for nearly half of all cardiac imaging techniques. It is a widely available and adaptable tool, as well as being a cost-effective and mainly a non-invasive test. In addition, echocardiography provides extensive clinical data, which is related to the presence or advent of different modalities (tissue Doppler imaging, speckle tracking imaging, three-dimensional mode, con...