Quality Improvement In Nursing

In the attempt to call the attention to the importance of improving the quality and health care outcomes, in 1999 the Institute of Medicine had submitted a report called To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System. Although more than ten years ago, this report stressed the need of a redesign in the process of the patient’s care, little progress in the improvement of quality and safety has been achieved (Clark, 2013). Even though there were some important initiatives in the implementation of quality and safety after the report, only in 2013 The Joint Commission made a significant contribution in order to accelerate the process and enforced quality and safety through standards such as National Patient Safety Goals and Core Measures of nursing …show more content…
This movement toward a restructuration of the patient’s care process had led to the incorporation of the Core Competencies and Standards of Quality into their curricula and most of the nursing programs are currently in the process of change. The objective of this curricular redesign is to ensure that the nurses of the future fulfill the requirements necessary to perform a quality care (AACN, …show more content…
In first place, the average age of the nursing workforce was 47 years in 2008 and expected to be 44.5 years by 2012, which leads to the consideration that twenty years ago Quality Improvement was not within the core competencies of the nursing practice and curricula (AACN, 2012a). As a result, this group of nurses within the healthcare system and actively practicing may lack of knowledge, skills, and attitude to completely engage the Quality Improvement required