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How should a director of nursing respond to the national quality goal of improving the quality of care transitions and communication across care settings? Create a task force comprised of nursing administration, charge nurses, discharge planners, and staff nurses A healthcare organization has been collecting data about the quality and safety of the nursing care provided within the organization. Consistent with the national priority of ensuring that each person is engaged as a partner in car...

PDSA Plan, do, study, act Quality improvement is used to make improvements to a process Quality improvement focuses on making an entire system's outcomes better What exactly are we going to do? Plan When and how did we do it? Do What were the results? Study What changes are we going to make based on our findings? Act Aim characteristics time specific, measurable, define project Plan: Select your goals Write down the goals with a timeline Do: Implement change Do: assign one person to ...

WGU C157 Essentials of Advanced Nursing Practice Field Experience 1. Vulnerable Populations: Vulnerable populations include patients who are racial or ethnic minorities, children, elderly, socioeconomically disadvantaged, underin- sured or those with certain medical conditions Infants, children, older adults, the ill, the physically and mentally disabled, the illiterate and the poor 2. QIA: Quality Improvement Activity "An activity used to monitor, evaluate or i...

WGU C157 Essentials of Advanced Nursing Practice Field Experience 1. Vulnerable Populations: Vulnerable populations include patients who are racial or ethnic minorities, children, elderly, socioeconomically disadvantaged, underin- sured or those with certain medical conditions Infants, children, older adults, the ill, the physically and mentally disabled, the illiterate and the poor 2. QIA: Quality Improvement Activity "An activity used to monitor, evaluate or i...

WGU C157 Essentials of Advanced Nursing Practice Field Experience 1. Vulnerable Populations: Vulnerable populations include patients who are racial or ethnic minorities, children, elderly, socioeconomically disadvantaged, underin- sured or those with certain medical conditions Infants, children, older adults, the ill, the physically and mentally disabled, the illiterate and the poor 2. QIA: Quality Improvement Activity "An activity used to monitor, evaluate or i...

WGU C157 Essentials of Advanced Nursing Practice Field Experience 1. Vulnerable Populations: Vulnerable populations include patients who are racial or ethnic minorities, children, elderly, socioeconomically disadvantaged, underin- sured or those with certain medical conditions Infants, children, older adults, the ill, the physically and mentally disabled, the illiterate and the poor 2. QIA: Quality Improvement Activity "An activity used to monitor, evaluate or i...

WGU C157 Essentials of Advanced Nursing Practice Field Experience 1. Vulnerable Populations: Vulnerable populations include patients who are racial or ethnic minorities, children, elderly, socioeconomically disadvantaged, underin- sured or those with certain medical conditions Infants, children, older adults, the ill, the physically and mentally disabled, the illiterate and the poor 2. QIA: Quality Improvement Activity "An activity used to monitor, evaluate or i...

WGU C157 Essentials of Advanced Nursing Practice Field Experience 1. Vulnerable Populations: Vulnerable populations include patients who are racial or ethnic minorities, children, elderly, socioeconomically disadvantaged, underin- sured or those with certain medical conditions Infants, children, older adults, the ill, the physically and mentally disabled, the illiterate and the poor 2. QIA: Quality Improvement Activity "An activity used to monitor, evaluate or i...

Vulnerable Populations - ANSWER Infants, children, older adults, the ill, the physically and mentally disabled, the illiterate and the poor QIA - ANSWER Quality Improvement Activity Essentials of Master's Education in Nursing - ANSWER Nursing Standard that: 1. Defines the essential elements of master's education for advanced practice roles in nursing. 2. Provides a framework for designing and assessing master's education programs for advanced practice nursing. National Patient Safe...

Quality improvement assumes that? - ANSWER Most problems with service delivery resilt from process difficulties, not individuals. *QI starts with the assumption that erros occur as a result of system failures, not individual errors. The term "quality" as used in quality improvement usually refers to? - ANSWER Characteristics of a product or service that bear on its ability to satisfy stated or implied needs *Quality rests on the ability to satisfy customer needs Three major differe...