New Nurses’ Views of Quality Improvement Education
The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient SafetyPublished 1 January 2010
Christine Kovner, Carol S. Brewer, Siritorn Yingrengreung, Susan Fairchild
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Abstract
Registered-nurse educational programs need to improve education about and application of QI concepts and to consider focusing QI content into a separate course to have some confidence that faculty will teach it. Despite the strong focus on QI in hospitals, new nurses do not see the connection between QI education and successfully performing their hospital jobs. Both nursing programs and hospitals should help new nurses make the connection.
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