Quality assurance in nursing care: from inspection to opportunity.
Describes alternative approaches to quality assurance in nursing and traces the historical shift from one approach to the other; quality as inspection to quality as opportunity. Early proselytizing approaches were superseded by an emphasis on quantitative measurement and attempts at "objective" evaluation which involved the development of the generic audit. More recently, the move has been towards locally developed audit and standard setting.
Department of Nursing Studies, King's College, London.
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D006302:Health Services Research / Q000379:methods; D009731:Nursing Audit; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000592:standards*; D009738:Nursing Service, Hospital / Q000592:standards*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000639:trends; D006113:United Kingdom; D014481:United States; D016526:Workload