Quality Assurance in Nursing
QUALITY ASSURANCE IN NURSING
INTRODUCTION:
Quality control is a specific type of controlling refers to activities that evaluate, monitor or regulate serves provided to consumers .in nursing the goal of quality care would be to ensure quality while giving nursing care to the clients as per nursing care plan.
HISTORICAL ASPECTS:
The field of quality assurance is an old as modern. Florence nightingale introduced the concept of quality in nursing care in 1855 while attending the soldiers in hospital during the Crimean war. It is a matter of pride for nurses that the nursing profession has attained a distinct position in the search for quality in health care.
DEFINIATIONS:
QUALITY: Quality is defined as the extent of resemblance between the purpose of health care and the truly granted care (Dunedin 1985)
Bull 1985 defined: quality assurance as the monitoring of the activities of client care to determine the degree of excellence attained to the implementation of the activities.
IN NURSING: In quality assurance is the defining of nursing practice through well written nursing standards and the use of those standards as a basis for evaluation on improvement of client care (maker 1998)
CONCEPT OF QUALITY ASSURANCE:
Quality assurance is a dynamic process through which nurses assume accountability for quality of care they provide .It is a guarantee to the society that services provided by nurses are being regulated by member of profession.
METHODS OF QUALITY ASSURANCE:
Donabedian introduced 3 major method of evaluating quality care a) Structural evaluation:
The method evaluates the setting and instruments used to provide care such as facilities equipment characteristics of the administrative organization and qualification of the health provider b) Process evaluation: This method evaluates management of the client care, data for this can be collected through observation of provider encounters and review of records, audit, check list, approach and the mapping approach
INTRODUCTION:
Quality control is a specific type of controlling refers to activities that evaluate, monitor or regulate serves provided to consumers .in nursing the goal of quality care would be to ensure quality while giving nursing care to the clients as per nursing care plan.
HISTORICAL ASPECTS:
The field of quality assurance is an old as modern. Florence nightingale introduced the concept of quality in nursing care in 1855 while attending the soldiers in hospital during the Crimean war. It is a matter of pride for nurses that the nursing profession has attained a distinct position in the search for quality in health care.
DEFINIATIONS:
QUALITY: Quality is defined as the extent of resemblance between the purpose of health care and the truly granted care (Dunedin 1985)
Bull 1985 defined: quality assurance as the monitoring of the activities of client care to determine the degree of excellence attained to the implementation of the activities.
IN NURSING: In quality assurance is the defining of nursing practice through well written nursing standards and the use of those standards as a basis for evaluation on improvement of client care (maker 1998)
CONCEPT OF QUALITY ASSURANCE:
Quality assurance is a dynamic process through which nurses assume accountability for quality of care they provide .It is a guarantee to the society that services provided by nurses are being regulated by member of profession.
METHODS OF QUALITY ASSURANCE:
Donabedian introduced 3 major method of evaluating quality care a) Structural evaluation:
The method evaluates the setting and instruments used to provide care such as facilities equipment characteristics of the administrative organization and qualification of the health provider b) Process evaluation: This method evaluates management of the client care, data for this can be collected through observation of provider encounters and review of records, audit, check list, approach and the mapping approach
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