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JONA: The Journal of Nursing Administration, 1983
A meaningful quality assurance program comes only with appropriate knowledge, communication, and accountability for all quality assurance functions among nurses at all levels. Describing the implementation of their quality assurance program, these authors tell of their eventual realization that, in fact, they had merely implemented a quality assurance ...
C H, Smeltzer, B, Feltman, K, Rajki
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A meaningful quality assurance program comes only with appropriate knowledge, communication, and accountability for all quality assurance functions among nurses at all levels. Describing the implementation of their quality assurance program, these authors tell of their eventual realization that, in fact, they had merely implemented a quality assurance ...
C H, Smeltzer, B, Feltman, K, Rajki
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Quality Monitoring in Nursing Homes
Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 1987Nursing home nurses have a great need for quality monitoring instruments that incorporate professional nursing standards.
K L, Roberts, J, LeSage, J R, Ellor
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Quality Management in Neurosurgical Nursing
2001During the past the increasing public interest in cutting down health care expenses and the growing awareness of the need for quality control in health care delivery necessitated to develop new ways of nursing care for hospitalised inpatients. These requirements do not only include trials to cut down costs by reducing the number and duration of in ...
E, Uhl, M, Heinlein
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Auditing quality of nursing care
Intensive and Critical Care Nursing, 1995Nurses working in intensive therapy units (ITU) may perceive that they provide a good quality of nursing care to patients and relatives in the ITU. But how can this be assessed, to enable nurses to have an indication of the actual quality of nursing care?
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Quality, research and ritual in nursing
Nursing Standard, 1993The purchaser/provider system has brought the dynamic association between quality, volume and cost into clear focus. Any consideration of this tri-partite relationship is incomplete, however, unless the additional dimensions of research and ritual are also included.
D, Benton, G, Avery
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Prerequisites for quality improvement in nursing
Journal of Nursing Management, 1998This study examines how the characteristics of nurses, working communities and leadership affect the prerequisites for quality improvement in nursing.Knowledge of the phenomena affecting nurses' action is needed, since quality of care is seen as a result of an individual carer's professional skills, work motivation and commitment to work.Material for ...
M, Koivula, M, Paunonen, P, Laippala
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A review of nursing quality assurance
Journal of Advanced Nursing, 1992This paper presents an overview of frameworks used in nursing quality assurance, an outline of the quality assurance movement in nursing, and its current concerns It is argued that quality assurance activity appears to be propelled by market forces, regulation, coercion and professionalism The concern with measurement places quality assurance activity ...
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Assessing Quality in Nursing Homes
Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, 1988Quality assurance (QA) in nursing homes requires recognition of differences between acute and long-term care in goals, technology, and pace. This article outlines an approach to nursing home QA that would both generate an information system for a facility to review its performance compared to external regulations, and also allow a proactive stance on ...
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Developing Nursing: The Contribution to Quality
International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, 1988The part played by quality assurance and the setting of standards in enhancing the motivation of nurses is described. The involvement of nurses themselves in developing “professional practice” has played a key role in reducing sickness, absence and turnover rates.
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Quality assurance in nurse education
Nurse Education Today, 1993Nurse education in common with all areas of health is undergoing rapid and wide-ranging change. The selection and implementation of quality assurance strategies is now very much a current issue in colleges of nursing up and down the United Kingdom. In this article the author examines one model of quality assurance and looks at possible strategies for ...
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