Demonstrate leadership skills to enhance quality nursing care and improve health outcomes.
Guiding Curriculum Elements
PSLO2:Demonstrate leadership skills to enhance quality nursing care and improve health outcomes.
PSLO 3:Evaluate best available evidence utilizing informatics to guide decision making
PSLO 6:Promote ethical practice and research within the nursing discipline and organizational and political environments
CO 3: Participate in a quality improvement project focused on change within the healthcare system.
CO 5: Evaluate system effectiveness in reducing risk of harm to clients and providers.
Competencies (2f, 2i, 2j, 2k, 2l, 2m, 3i, 6i)
2f) Use improvement methods, based on data from the outcomes of care processes, to design changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of health care.
2i) Participate in quality and patient safety initiatives, recognizing that these are complex system issues, which involve individuals, families, groups, communities, populations, and other members of the healthcare team.
2j) Demonstrate an awareness of complex organizational systems.
2k) Apply concepts of quality and safety using structure, process, and outcome measures to identify clinical questions and describe the process of changing current practice.
2l) Apply quality improvement processes to monitor performance measures, including nurse sensitive indicators in the micro system of care.
2m) Participate in the development of imaginative and creative strategies to enable systems to change.
3i) Evaluate strategies to continuously improve the quality and safety of health care.
6i) Employ principles of quality improvement, healthcare policy, and cost effectiveness to assist in the development and initiation of effective plans that will improve the quality of healthcare delivery.
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