Download or read book Improving the Quality of Care in Nursing Homes written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1986-02-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As more people live longer, the need for quality long-term care for the elderly will increase dramatically. This volume examines the current system of nursing home regulations, and proposes an overhaul to better provide for those confined to such facilities. It determines the need for regulations, and concludes that the present regulatory system is inadequate, stating that what is needed is not more regulation, but better regulation. This long-anticipated study provides a wealth of useful background information, in-depth study, and discussion for nursing home administrators, students, and teachers in the health care field; professionals involved in caring for the elderly; and geriatric specialists.
Download or read book Nursing Quality Assurance written by Patricia S. Schroeder and published by Aspen Publishers. This book was released on 1984 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Quality Assurance in Rehabilitation Nursing written by Adrianne E. Avillion and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now you can save months of time developing a quality assurance program on your own. With Quality Assurance in Rehabilitation Nursing, you'll find it easy to set up, implement, monitor, and evaluate a QA program specific to rehabilitation. All stages of the process are covered, with sample forms, questionnaires, and charts you can photocopy and use or adapt to your facility.
Download or read book Quality Assurance in Healthcare Service Delivery Nursing and Personalized Medicine Technologies and Processes written by Lazakidou, Athina and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quality of life is difficult to define and even more difficult to measure; as such, outcomes from nursing in continuing care are not easily articulated. Quality Assurance in Healthcare Service Delivery, Nursing and Personalized Medicine: Technologies and Processes offers a framework for measuring quality of service in the healthcare industry as it pertains to nursing, with insight into how new technologies and the design of personalized medicine have improved quality of care and quality of life. Assessment and feedback are a vital part of developing and designing personalized medicine, and this book details case studies and the latest research in the field of healthcare service delivery assessment. In addition to describing assessment methodology, the book is also a compendium of the latest research into new medical technologies.
Download or read book Crossing the Quality Chasm written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2001-07-19 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second in a series of publications from the Institute of Medicine's Quality of Health Care in America project Today's health care providers have more research findings and more technology available to them than ever before. Yet recent reports have raised serious doubts about the quality of health care in America. Crossing the Quality Chasm makes an urgent call for fundamental change to close the quality gap. This book recommends a sweeping redesign of the American health care system and provides overarching principles for specific direction for policymakers, health care leaders, clinicians, regulators, purchasers, and others. In this comprehensive volume the committee offers: A set of performance expectations for the 21st century health care system. A set of 10 new rules to guide patient-clinician relationships. A suggested organizing framework to better align the incentives inherent in payment and accountability with improvements in quality. Key steps to promote evidence-based practice and strengthen clinical information systems. Analyzing health care organizations as complex systems, Crossing the Quality Chasm also documents the causes of the quality gap, identifies current practices that impede quality care, and explores how systems approaches can be used to implement change.
Download or read book Issues and Strategies for Nursing Care Quality written by Patricia S. Schroeder and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 1991 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nursing
Download or read book Quality Assurance in Nursing Practice written by Nan Kemp and published by Butterworth-Heinemann Medical. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Quality Assurance in Health Care Services written by Ross H. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Quality Assurance in Nursing written by Heather Marr and published by Nelson Thornes. This book was released on 1994-01 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wide-ranging changes currently taking place in health care provision have resulted in an increased awareness of the concepts, methods and application of quality assurance. This book deals with all of these aspects of the topic, and will have particular relevance for those involved in the delivery of health care, including practising nurses, managers and students at both diploma and undergraduate level. The first part of the book deals with the concept of quality in nursing and with methods of evaluating, improving and assuring quality. The approach is unit-based and practitioner-led, and the learning outcomes and study activities given in the text can be used to stimulate reflection and discussion when the book is used in a teaching situation. The second part illustrates the methods in practical use through a series of factual experiences. These examples show how groups can evaluate nursing practice by using a dynamic approach, setting standards and evaluating criteria. They are included here to demonstrate how programmes of quality assurance can be applied to everyday working situations.
Download or read book Patient Safety and Quality written by Ronda Hughes and published by Department of Health and Human Services. This book was released on 2008 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nurses play a vital role in improving the safety and quality of patient car -- not only in the hospital or ambulatory treatment facility, but also of community-based care and the care performed by family members. Nurses need know what proven techniques and interventions they can use to enhance patient outcomes. To address this need, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), with additional funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has prepared this comprehensive, 1,400-page, handbook for nurses on patient safety and quality -- Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses. (AHRQ Publication No. 08-0043)." - online AHRQ blurb, http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nurseshdbk/
Download or read book The Manual of Nursing Quality Assurance written by Howard S. Rowland and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Manual of Nursing Quality Assurance is an encyclopedic source that covers every facet of nursing quality assurance. Not a theoretical manual, it represents the actual working experience of the nations finest nursing departments and QI experts, with proven approaches and practical techniques and procedures that work in the real world. The manual has hundreds of specific forms, checklists, and procedures developed and scrutinized by QI administrators, professional associations, major medical libraries, and government agencies.
Download or read book Quality Assurance in Nursing written by National Nursing and Midwifery Consultative Committee and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Quality Assurance in Nursing Practice written by Nan Kemp and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Quality Assurance written by Diana N. T. Sale and published by Springer. This book was released on 1990-06-18 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An outline of some of the most commonly used methods for assuring the quality of care and their advantages and disadvantages aimed at assisting the charge nurse or ward sister choose the most appropriate measuring tool for his or her clinical area.
Download or read book Quality Assurance written by Diana Sale and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1996-11-11 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As professionals, we can no longer rely upon our own judgement to monitor the standard of patient care. The government and the purchaser demand objective structured measurement of the quality of the care offered to our patients. At the same time, an ever-increasing workload brings its own pressures. The second edition of this successful book addresses these issues. It outlines the theoretical background of quality assurance and provides practical guidelines on the implementation of a variety of monitoring tools. The approach has been designed to give the reader an easy grasp of the main principles associated with the tool, and to enable successful implementation of the system.
Download or read book Quality Assurance in Nursing Practice written by Nan Kemp and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Future of Nursing written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Future of Nursing explores how nurses' roles, responsibilities, and education should change significantly to meet the increased demand for care that will be created by health care reform and to advance improvements in America's increasingly complex health system. At more than 3 million in number, nurses make up the single largest segment of the health care work force. They also spend the greatest amount of time in delivering patient care as a profession. Nurses therefore have valuable insights and unique abilities to contribute as partners with other health care professionals in improving the quality and safety of care as envisioned in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) enacted this year. Nurses should be fully engaged with other health professionals and assume leadership roles in redesigning care in the United States. To ensure its members are well-prepared, the profession should institute residency training for nurses, increase the percentage of nurses who attain a bachelor's degree to 80 percent by 2020, and double the number who pursue doctorates. Furthermore, regulatory and institutional obstacles-including limits on nurses' scope of practice-should be removed so that the health system can reap the full benefit of nurses' training, skills, and knowledge in patient care. In this book, the Institute of Medicine makes recommendations for an action-oriented blueprint for the future of nursing.
