NURS 636 - Quality Improvement in Healthcare

Lecture Hours: 1
Lab Hours: 0
Credit Hours: 1
This course provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary to design, implement, and evaluate quality improvement initiatives within healthcare systems. Students will employ quality improvement methodologies as they identify a complex nursing case issue and the needed variables for tests of change in the clinical setting. Course concepts will include quality improvement strategies for creating, sustaining, and measuring change within interprofessional teams to improve patient-centered healthcare quality, safety, and cost effectiveness. Prerequisite: NURS 612.