Quality Improvement Essay

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Continuous Quality Improvement is an organizational method in healthcare that allows for the development of a continuous flow of improvements to provide quality healthcare that meets or exceeds what is expected. A quality improvement program is usually created to improve the overall processes of how patients receive care through evaluating of the organizational performance procedures.
There is always room to improve operations and processes when it comes to providing a product or service and the focus of continuous quality improvement in the healthcare organization is to focus on improving delivery, quality, efficiency, and outcome of patient care and services. This is usually done through an organized assessment of information provided through ongoing monitoring, evaluating, and improvement activities.
Every facility you work in has some sort of quality management in place. Quality management can be defined as a way for ensuring that all activities necessary to design, develop and implement a product or service are effective. It can be divided into three main components one of them is quality improvement.
I believe the goal of quality improvement program in a facility is the ongoing improvement of the delivery, quality, efficiency, and outcome of patient care and services. This can be accomplished through continuous monitoring, evaluation of any activities that need improvement. For example some hospitals have QI teams made up of nurses, physicians and other healthcare workers. These teams’ helps in ensuring QI are done in an efficient manner. According to (L.Long, 2003) “Influencing nurses to accept and implement best practice and continuous quality improvement into everyday nursing activities and to change practice is a significant challenge for any nursing service.” I believe including nursing in quality improvement teams can help influence them into
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