Quality Improvement

Quality Improvement

The Nurse of the Future uses data to monitor the outcomes of care processes, and uses improvement methods to design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of health care systems [QSEN, 2007].

In order for healthcare providers and hospital workers to improve quality of care I believe it comes back to the 6 dimensions of health care quality this includes, Safe: avoiding injuries, Timely: reducing wait or delay of treatment, Effective: science-based knowledge, Efficient: avoiding waste-equipment, supplies, ideas and energy, Equitable: providing care without bias, and Patient-centered: care that is respectful and responsive to individual patients. As healthcare providers we can improve our quality of care but we have to have to will to want to improve, we must have ideas and we must execute to make it happen. Nursing is one profession where we have to be constantly learning, we learn from past mistakes and failures as well as from new evidence-based practice. It is very fascinating if you ask me. During the BSN program the classes that I have taken have opened my eyes to understanding how important quality improvement is to how we are as nurses. The knowledge that I have gained during the healthcare policy class as it relates to regulatory issues in the hospital setting and core measures only improves our patient care as well as our patient satisfactory.

I have added three documents that I am pretty passionate about, and have a really good representative of quality improvement.