[Quality assurance in nursing care--approach and implementation of a comprehensive professional and institutional quality assurance project].
In cooperation between a seminar of course of study in nursing science, ambulatory and stationary patient care facilities and a municipal administration, quality assurance is developed in the form of moderated inter-institutional quality circles assembled from overlapping professions. A unit-based approach for quality assurance in the Netherlands has been modified to form the basis of this project's innovative approach. A link between internal and external quality assurance is included in this approach. Resulting experience in quality assurance work indicates that this theory and practice method appears productive and successful in practice as well as for academic studies and knowledge transfer. This article deals with the transfer from theory into practice.
Dangel
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Institut für Pflege- und Gesundheitswissenschaft Berlin. dangel@asfh-berlin.de
Korporal
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D000553:Ambulatory Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D005858:Germany; D006284:Health Plan Implementation / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D008332:Management Quality Circles / Q000458:organization & administration; D009426:Netherlands; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*