Medical & Healthcare
Research Methodology
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- Difference between direct primary care and concierge medicine
- Stem Cell Technology
- Multiple Chronic Condition Research Network
- Wearables Support Bedside Care and Remote Patient Monitoring
- Telehealth Platform Enable Secure Connections from Anywhere
- Mobile Workstations offer more Seamless Care
- Quality Assurance in Nursing
- Decentralized Approach to Care Management
- New Insights into Complex Role of Mitochondria in Parkinson’s disease
Quality Assurance in Nursing
The assurance of quality is fundamental to the delivery of healthcare. All countries regardless of their economic status share a major common concern to ensure that their health care system and its services meet the requirements of their population. Health care professionals, individually and collectively, should always place great importance on the provision of high quality care to their clients. It is now recognized that the assurance of quality requires a systematized explicit management strategy which is being constantly evaluated and refined. Nursing, being the integral and indispensable part of health services, should be directing its members towards providing quality services at primary, secondary and tertiary level health care institutions.
Fig.1. Quality Assurance in Nursing Education (Semantic Scholar.com)
Quality assurance is an essential part of health care and nursing. While many nurses are familiar with the words “quality assurance,” most are not directly involved in the process. Because of increased requirements for licensure and accreditation, and an increased desire for cost-containment, more nurses will become active participants in quality assurance programs. Some institutions are making participation in quality assurance part of the “clinical ladder/advancement” process.
Quality assurance is to provide a higher quality of care. It is necessary that nurses develop standards of patient care and appropriate evaluation tools, so that professional aspects of nursing involving intellectual and interpersonal activities. Quality will be ensured and attention will be given to the individual needs and responses to patients. The formulation of standards is the first step towards evaluating the nursing care delivery. The. standards serve as a base by which the quality of care can be judged. This judgement may be according to a rating or other data that reflect the conformity of existing practice with the established standards. The standards must be written, regularly reviewed and well-known by the nursing staff.