NURP 675 Quality Improvement in Health Care
The course focuses on the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that when acquired and applied effectively, can assure a high-quality and safe patient and family health care experience in a variety of practice settings. Current health policy issues related to assuring safe, high-quality, effective, equitable, timely, patient-centered, and efficient care will be addressed. Given the importance of patient- and family-centered care, interdisciplinary teamwork and collaboration, and positive practice environments, these areas of study will enrich the course content. Building cultures of safety that are fair and just and assuring high accountability and reliability in care processes will also be studied. Access and cost issues will be addressed, including pay for performance, quality outcomes, and nurse-sensitive outcomes. Health care reform’s focus on quality will be considered.