NUR428 Quality Improvement and Patient Safety

Catalog description

This course will focus on the processes and practices of quality assessment and quality improvement in healthcare. Students will examine a variety of healthcare indicators that nurses are accountable for achieving. Students will examine patient safety, risk appraisal, and medical error reduction. Exposure to models for quality, healthcare-associated infections, and preventable harm will be introduced and developed. Teamwork, event analysis, communication and the importance of the human factor will be discussed. Students will be given tools to help develop cognition and decision making, and to improve patient safety.