quality assurance in nursing practice

1. -NIDHI CHAUHAN
M.SC NURSING PRE. 2017
GCON, JODHPUR
Quality assurance in
nursing

2. INTRODUCTION

3. DEFINITION
 It is a system for monitoring outcome of
professional interventions and departmental
activities which are compared with established
standards to evaluate and document
appropriateness and effectiveness of practices.
 It involves-
1. Identifying standards for excellence,
2. Evaluating care against those standards,
3. Taking action to correct deficiencies and to
reach these standards.
Zimmer (1974)

4. PURPOSE
To introduce code of ethics
and professional conduct
To prepare nursing personnel
for implementation of quality
assurance model

5. OBJECTIVES
Develop confidence of receiver
Increasing professionalism in nursing
Strengthening documentation of
nursing care
Provide optimum utilization of
resources

6. COMPONENTS
Defining
Promoting
Monitoring
Taking
action

7. APPROACHES
General
Credentialing
Licensure
Accreditation
Certification
Specific
Nursing audit
Standards

8. GENERAL
APPROACH

9. CREDENTIALING
 It is the process of determining and
maintaining competence in nursing practice.

10. LICENSURE

11. ACCREDITATION

12. CERTIFICATION

13. SPECIFIC
APPROACH

14. NURSING AUDIT

15. STANDARDS

16. MODELS OF
QUALITY
ASSURANCE

17. SYSTEM MODEL
Input
Throughput
Output
Feed back

18. AMERICAN QUALITY ASSURANCE MODEL

19. PROCESS OF QUALITY
ASSURANCE

21. NEED FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE

24. SUMMARY