Synopses & Reviews
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.
Table of Contents
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