Implementing shared decision making (SDM), recommended in screening mammography by national guidelines for women age 40-49 years, faces challenges that innovations in quality improvement and team ...

When reviewing job growth and salary information, it’s important to remember that actual numbers can vary due to many different factors—like years of experience in the role, industry of employment, ...

A collection of articles and PowerPoint presentations that provide new improvers (people interested in problem solving and process improvement) with an introduction to the problem solving framework ...

The UAB School of Nursing’s Quality Improvement Scholars fellowship offers Doctor of Nursing Practice faculty members the opportunity to work with quality and safety research faculty to ultimately ...

Synthesize knowledge from liberal education, the sciences, and nursing to address the diverse health needs of individuals, families, and communities across the lifespan. Integrate nursing research, ...

CNO-turned-executive director Kerri Scanlon remains passionate about healthcare excellence. As a nurse leader at Northwell Health in New York for more than 25 years, including chief nursing officer ...

A quality improvement toolkit helped hospitals conduct improvement initiatives, although they faced several challenges, according to a study in The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient ...

This paper explores how the evidence-based practice and quality improvement movements are informing our understanding of what counts as quality patient care. Implicit in the debate is that we have ...

Physician burnout is a frontline challenge of US health care, with estimates suggesting a burnout rate approaching 50 percent among practicing physicians. The organizational drivers of burnout in ...

Quality control takes time and money, but it can save your business significant hassles in the long run. Low-quality products can gain you bad publicity and legal sanctions, including lawsuits and ...

Continuous electronic monitoring with telemetry is an important hospital practice for monitoring patients who are at high risk of serious cardiac events. Unfortunately, it is often overutilized. When ...