NURS 6305

Quality Management in Nursing and Health Care

This course provides a multidisciplinary background in the science of health care quality management. The history and evolution of the quality movement, theories and thought leaders, current quality of care issues, research and innovations, intervention strategies, and instruments will be covered; as well as an analysis of quality management system models in health care. The student will learn to develop and plan for execution of quality improvement plans and will use a quality indicator assessment program, such as Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) or National Database for Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI), as the framework to develop a paper that identifies quality indicators, their measurements and the nursing interventions to improve the quality measurement. Value based purchasing will be defined and interventions to optimize value based purchasing will be discussed.

Units: 3.0