Integrating the nursing process into a nursing quality improvement program.
In 1991, the Joint Commission's nursing services standards scoring guidelines went into effect. Nancy Claflin discusses the changes in the nursing process needed to meet these revised standards under the rubrics of assessment, planning, intervention, and evaluation. She then presents an extensive implementation plan for integrating this revised nursing process into a nursing QI program. The focus of this article is both on the principles of quality improvement and the exigencies of aspects of care, standards of nursing practice, and indicators.
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Carl T. Hayden Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ.
D001130:Arizona; D002763:Cholecystectomy / Q000451:nursing / Q000592:standards; D003625:Data Collection; D004506:Education, Nursing; D006745:Hospital Bed Capacity, 300 to 499; D007591:Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations; D009736:Nursing Process / Q000592:standards; D009738:Nursing Service, Hospital / Q000592:standards*; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D010351:Patient Discharge / Q000592:standards; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*