Explain The Key Component Of Quality Nursing Care

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The key component of quality nursing care is patient safety. Nurses promote patient safety and improve quality at a workplace because they are having the ability of critical thinking. They use their nursing ability for the take care of the patients. In the Nursing program they are prepared for the patient care. Nursing educators provide specific training for promote patient safety. Nursing administrators continuously addressing the complex dynamics that influence the ability of nurses. They are developing polices for safe nursing practice (Ballard, 2003).
Errors mostly occurs when planned activity fails to achieve the intended outcome and this failure could not be attributed. We can report errors and near misses to nation’s health care system.

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