Israeli quality survey: research 'spin-offs'.
Quality assurance surveys in nursing are worthless unless the results can be translated into practical action. The author demonstrates how one such survey in Israel inspired Masters' students at Tel Aviv University to base their projects and theses on the survey findings, and produced intervention models and tools for improving care in several important areas of nursing. Encouraging the students to conduct these studies as 'spin-offs' from a major piece of national research has fostered a much broader understanding of quality assurance which has had a direct impact on patient care, and provides an example which nurses, educators and students in other countries can emulate.
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D006801:Humans; D007557:Israel; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000592:standards*; D015399:Nursing Research / Q000379:methods; D009738:Nursing Service, Hospital / Q000592:standards*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care