Understanding Quality Patient Care and the Role of the Practicing Nurse

作者：Owens Laura D; Koch Robert W^*

来源：Nursing Clinics of North America, 2015, 50(1): 33-+.

DOI：10.1016/j.cnur.2014.10.003

• Health care quality
• Affordable Care Act
• Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
• Institute of Healthcare Improvement (IHI)
• The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
• National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI)

Nurses play a vital role in improving the safety and quality of patient care. The authors provide the front-line nurse providers with an overview of critical concepts related to quality management of patient care. A historical approach provides the reader with an overview of the trajectory or the quality in health care movement. Furthermore, the article provides the nurse with a basic understanding of national and international organizations that focus on quality patient care. A brief introduction of measures of quality care is presented as well as implications for nursing practice.

• 出版日期2015-3