title: Teaching the quality improvement process to nursing students.
abstract: During the past decade, there has been increasing emphasis on nurses leading and participating in quality improvement (QI) activities, creating a need for nursing students to learn QI skills. There is minimal information that explains how to teach QI skills or provide nursing students with the opportunity to participate in actual QI projects. Faculty in a prelicensure diploma RN program developed a project that provides an opportunity for senior students to participate in an interdisciplinary team related to the development, planning, and implementation of QI projects in a geriatric setting.
authors.affiliation: Watts School of Nursing, Durham, NC 27705, USA. Barbara.dotson@duke.edu
authors.forename: Barbara J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Dotson
authors.forename: Lisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Lewis
mesh_terms: D004510:Education, Nursing, Diploma Programs; D005851:Geriatric Nursing / Q000193:education; D006126:Group Processes; D006801:Humans; D009657:North Carolina; D015397:Program Evaluation; D058996:Quality Improvement