Quality and Safety and Health Care Improvement.

Catalog description

Quality and safety have emerged to provide an evidence-based focused framework for healthcare improvement for systems, safety, and policy. This course is designed to assist professional nurses to utilize the Model for Healthcare Improvement to diagnose, measure, analyze, change, and lead systems improvements in healthcare. Students, working in groups, will analyze clinical problems in their practice setting and develop an improvement science solution using the Plan Do Study Act (Model for Healthcare Improvement) for innovation to improve practice. Prerequisites: Admission to the ELMSN program or permission by instructor.