title: Peer Review in Nursing: Essential Components of a Model Supporting Safety and Quality.
abstract: This article introduces an accountability-focused nursing framework to systematically organize and promote quality and safety nursing outcomes. The 4 essential components of this framework include a responsive environment; shared decision making, personal empowerment, and transformational management. These elements promote a professional practice environment that supports clinical nurses to practice at their highest level of autonomy and promotes accountability for patient outcomes. The often-misunderstood concept of peer review is foundational to 2 of the model components.
authors.affiliation: Author Affiliations: Independent Consultants and Owners, Nursing Consulting Partners, LLC, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
authors.forename: Vicki
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: George
authors.forename: Barb
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Haag-Heitman
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards*; D003657:Decision Making; D004650:Employee Performance Appraisal; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D016294:Models, Nursing; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000592:standards*; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000592:standards*; D061214:Patient Safety / Q000592:standards*; D010380:Peer Review; D017009:Professional Autonomy; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000592:standards; D014481:United States