Quality and Safety for Transformational Nursing : Core Competencies,9780132724128

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Quality and Safety for Transformational Nursing : Core Competencies

by Amer, Kim

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1st

ISBN13:

9780132724128

ISBN10:

013272412X

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Paperback

Pub. Date:

8/16/2012

Publisher(s):

Prentice Hall

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Summary

QUALITY AND SAFETY FOR TRANSFORMATIONAL NURSING: CORE COMPETENCIES helps nurses become leaders in providing safer, higher-quality care. Thorough and up-to-date, it reflects best practices identified by AACN, Institute of Medicine, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and others. Coverage includes: quality theory, philosophies, and models; strategies for improvement, innovation, empowering nurses, and driving change; using metrics and technology; Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCSB); and much more. Key concepts are illuminating through case studies, clear objectives, Best Evidence boxes, and other proven pedagogical features.

Chapter 1: Risk and Threats to Safe Quality Care in Hospital Settings

Chapter 2: Quality and Safety Models

Chapter 3: Transition to Practice: An Essential Element of Quality and Safety

Chapter 4: Power, Empowerment, and Change in Nursing and Health Care

Chapter 5: Quality and Safety Education Strategies

Chapter 6: Evaluating a Program: Metrics and Stakeholders

Chapter 7: Interprofessional Team Building

Chapter 8: Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB) Experience: Innovations, Improvements, and Quality

Chapter 9: Informatics and Nursing: Using Technology to Improve Quality

Chapter 10: Patient-Centered Care

Chapter 11: Quality Health Care, Policy and Law

Chapter 12: Future-Focused Quality Nursing