title: Teaching quality improvement.
abstract: Practicing nurses are required to engage in quality improvement work as a part of their clinical practice, but few undergraduate nursing education programs offer course work and applied experience in this area. This article presents a description of class content and teaching strategies, assignments, and evaluation strategies designed to achieve the Quality and Safety Education in Nursing competencies related to quality improvement and interdisciplinary teams. Students demonstrate their application of the quality improvement process by designing and implementing a small-scale quality improvement project that they report in storyboard format on a virtual conference Web site.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, Quality Resources Department, University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 53792-2455, USA. nemurra1@wisc.edu
authors.forename: Marry Ellen
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Murray
authors.forename: Stephen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Douglas
authors.forename: Diana
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Girdley
authors.forename: Paula
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Jarzemsky
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003142:Communication; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003479:Curriculum; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D011361:Professional Competence; D015397:Program Evaluation / Q000379:methods; D017751:Safety Management / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology; D013663:Teaching / Q000458:organization & administration; D017749:Total Quality Management / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014922:Wisconsin