College of Nursing has found that a large number of new nurses feel
ill-prepared to implement quality improvement measures and more than 12%
have never heard of "quality improvement".
The survey was sent to 436 newly graduated nurses with bachelor and
associate's degrees from around the country. The study found that 38.6%
of those surveyed felt that their degree courses either "poorly" or
"very poorly" prepared them to implement quality improvement measures
and 41.7% didn't feel prepared at all to use national patient safety
resources including the National Quality Forum.
The researchers defined quality improvement as the "use of data to
monitor the outcomes of care processes and use of improvement methods to
design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety
of health care systems." There is debate over just exactly who should
be responsible for teaching quality improvement with some believing it
should be the school and others believe it should fall to the employer.
However, the study's authors note that only 23.3% of those surveyed said
that their employer provided quality improvement training was "very
helpful."
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