Nurse Leadership: Sustaining a Culture of Quality and Safety
Program Date/Time: Tuesday, November 19, at 1 p.m. ET / 12 p.m. CT
Nurse leaders engage in multiple activities that drive, improve, and manage the quality of care and safety in increasingly complex and high-risk clinical settings. Two of the most crucial aspects of leadership ensure the quality and safety of patients and that clinical practices are performed with accuracy and care.
Activities for keeping patients safe and protected with quality care such as embedding a culture of safety, assess and manage safety risks, maintain high reliability principles to improve quality and safety, evaluating team performances, and sharing and educating patient safety measures, among others. They provide a critical opportunity for leading and delivering change when improving patient care and safety while transforming services across multifaceted systems. Nursing quality improvement programs and initiatives transform and advance patient care effectiveness and operational efficiency.
Quality and safety, core values aimed at improving health outcomes and reducing harm, require system effectiveness and individual performance. This presentation explores some of the most useful examples of quality improvement initiatives in nursing. We will look at the important roles that nurse leaders engage in to improve quality and safety when measuring, reporting, and comparing healthcare outcomes to ensure safe, high-quality services.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe quality improvement (QI) in nursing.
- Consider three challenges to quality improvement in healthcare.
- Discuss three strategies to help Nurse Leaders create an empowering culture of quality and safety when aligning clinical and managerial priorities.
- List three nursing organizations that work to promote healthcare quality improvement and safety.