Quality Improvement: A Guide For Integration In Nursing (a Guide For Integration In Nursing)

By (author) Finkelman Anita
Short description/annotation:
Focusing on quality improvement in patient care, the guide empowers nurses at all levels to integrate QI into daily practice for error reduction and enhanced safety. It provides tailored responsibilities, engaging activities, evolving case studies, and regular companion website updates to support learning.
Description:
Quality Improvement: a Guide for Integration in Nursing, Second Edition is an integral resource for both nursing students and professionals. Quality improvement (QI) is a crucial part of healthcare and one that nurses are charged with implementing daily as they care for patients. This text is completely focused on teaching the importance of QI through patient care and error reduction. It also reinforces the concept that nurses in all positions and healthcare settings must understand how QI works as well as how to integrate it into their daily work to create and maintain a culture of safety.

Quality Improvement: a Guide for Integration in Nursing, Second Edition can be used broadly across nursing degree programs and professional practice. It outlines the foundation for quality improvement and features new advanced practice content applicable for APNs and DNPs by moving beyond the basics throughout each chapter. In addition, the author will release monthly QI-related content via the Navigate Companion Website to keep up with current trends and literature findings.

Key Features:
- New QI responsibilities section in each chapter will show how to apply QI content for three roles: staff nurse, nurse manager, and advanced practice nurse/DNP.
- Apply CQI section at the end of each chapter includes activities, exemplars, and evolving case studies to encourage further critical thinking.
- Monthly content updates covering the latest quality improvement news and literature.
- "Engaging Students in Quality Improvement" faculty teaching/learning strategies.
Biographical note:

Anita Finkelman, MSN, RN is a nurse educator and consultant.She is currently a visiting lecturer at the Recanati School for Community Health Professions at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.''Previously, she served as visiting faculty at the School of Nursing BouvÉ College of Health Sciences Northeastern University and was chair for the Northeastern School of Nursing CCNE Self-Study Task Force.''Some of her past positions include Assistant Clinical Professor of Nursing at University of Oklahoma College of Nursing where she taught undergraduate and graduate nursing research online, served as course coordinator for undergraduate nursing research, and was awarded a VA Nursing Academy program grant to develop a special undergraduate long-term experience at the VA and develop a summer internship and a post-graduate nurse residency program. At the University of Cincinnati she was Associate Clinical Professor and also Director of the Undergraduate Program. She has managed several projects to migrate nursing curriculum to distance learning. Her BSN is from TCU Harris College of Nursing, master’s degree in psychiatric-mental health nursing/clinical specialist from Yale University. She completed post-master’s graduate work in healthcare policy and administration at George Washington University with additional health policy work as a fellow at the Health Policy Institute, George Mason University. Her experience of thirty-five plus years includes clinical, educational, and administrative positions, and considerable experience with curriculum, developing distance learning programs and other online products related to simulation learning, and teaching online, She has also served as Director of Staff Education for two acute care hospitals and as Director of Continuing Education at the University of Cincinnati College of Nursing.As a consultant Ms. Finkelman works in the areas of curriculum particularly wi