Significant changes in the healthcare environment have occurred that offer challenges for
quality improvement and nursing education programs, and thus impact both nursing practice …

Objective Quality and safety are high priorities for US hospitals today. This focus is likely to
intensify, given the rapidly changing and complex health care environment. While health …

Engaging staff in performance improvement and patient safety initiatives is no easy task. It is
not just time that is involved but there is also a definite repertoire of knowledge, skills, and …

Practicing nurses are required to engage in quality improvement work as a part of their
clinical practice, but few undergraduate nursing education programs offer course work and …

In 2001 I coauthored an editorial in the American Academy of Nursing's official journal,
Nursing Outlook, urging undergraduate and graduate nursing education programs to …

Improvements in health care are slow, in part because doctors and nurses lack skills in
quality improvement, patient safety, and interprofessional teamwork. This article reports on …

The Institute of Medicine and the Carnegie Foundation for Health Education have called for
significant changes in nursing education to reduce medical errors and improve health …

Strong partnerships are essential to lead the innovative change needed to prepare future
nurses who demonstrate quality and safety competence. Successful models involve senior …

Responding to the growing concern about medical error and patient harm, nurse educators
are seeking innovative strategies to ensure that nursing students develop the knowledge …

In partnership with a major medical center, senior-level nursing students completed a root
cause analysis and implementation plan to address a unit-specific quality issue. To evaluate …