Quality Assurance For Nurses and Other Members of the Health Care Team

As professionals, we can no longer rely upon our own judgement to monitor the standard of patient care. The government and the purchaser demand objective structured measurement of the quality of the care offered to our patients. At the same time, an ever-increasing workload brings its own pressures....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sale, Diana
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Macmillan Education UK 1996, 1996
Edition:2nd ed. 1996
Series:The Essentials of Nursing Management Series
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:As professionals, we can no longer rely upon our own judgement to monitor the standard of patient care. The government and the purchaser demand objective structured measurement of the quality of the care offered to our patients. At the same time, an ever-increasing workload brings its own pressures. The second edition of this successful book addresses these issues. It outlines the theoretical background of quality assurance and provides practical guidelines on the implementation of a variety of monitoring tools. The approach has been designed to give the reader an easy grasp of the main principles associated with the tool, and to enable successful implementation of the system
Physical Description:XII, 152 p online resource
ISBN:9781349141975