Dec 26, 2024  
2023-2024 Graduate Bulletin 
    
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2023-2024 Graduate Bulletin [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

NURS 5305 - Quality Management in Nursing and Health Care

Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission to the MSN program; NURS 5000 , 5001 , 5002 , 5003 ;;
Pre/Corequisite: NURS 5301 , 5302 ;
Description: This course provides a multidisciplinary background in the science of health care quality management. The history and evolution of the quality movement, theories and thought leaders, current quality of care issues, research and innovations, intervention strategies, and instruments will be covered; as well as an analysis of quality management system models in health care.  The student will learn to develop and plan for execution of quality improvement plans and will use a quality indicator assessment program, such as AHRQ or NDNQI, as the framework to develop a paper that identifies quality indicators, their measurements and the nursing interventions to improve the quality measurement. Valued‐based purchasing will be defined and interventions to assure quality and cost containment will be discussed.