"Quality improvement is a key competency expected of nursing students and of staff in health care organizations. This text provides nurses with a clear framework to plan, implement, and lead continuous QI initiatives regardless of healthcare setting. It equips practicing nurses and nursing students at all levels with the knowledge and competencies required to engage in continuous quality improvement, leading to measurable improvement in health care services and patient outcomes"-- Provided by publisher.

Healthcare Quality -- Quality Improvement: Ethics, Standards, Regulatory, Accreditation, and Legal Issues -- Healthcare Professions Core Competencies to Improve Care -- Change and Healthcare Delivery -- Entering the Quality Improvement World -- Patient and Family Engagement in Quality Improvement -- Quality and Safety: Basic Understanding -- Setting the Stage for Quality Improvement -- The Quality Improvement Plan -- A Toolbox to Monitor, Measure, and Analyze Care Quality -- Creating and Sustaining Quality Care: Prevention of Quality Care Problems -- Nursing Leadership for Quality Improvement.