ABQAURP Quality Improvement: Questions/Solutions
What is quality? Right Ans - Degree to which health services for
individuals and populations increase the likelihood of desired health
outcomes and are consistent with current professional knowledge
Nurses can provide high-quality care by participating in _____ and _____.
Right Ans - quality improvement and quality management
What is quality improvement? Right Ans - systematic and continuous
actions that lead to measurable improvement in healthcare services and
the health status of targeted patient groups
What are some examples of quality improvement? Right Ans - using
advance directives
following privacy laws
striving to reduce errors
What is quality management? Right Ans - evaluates medical and nursing
processes for quality and effectiveness compared to accepted standards in
order to correct problems before they are clients and to prevent errors in
treatment
aims to provide cost-effective care by preventing overuse, misuse, and
underuse of medical resources
Quality improvement affects what? Right Ans - physiological outcomes
legal and ethical issues - clinical trials require legal consent and
researchers must confirm that new treatment is ethical
informatics system - to accurately record a client's medical history and
results of diagnostic tests
How can healthcare quality be improved? Right Ans - properly using
advance directives
following privacy laws
striving to reduce errors
What are the six aims for improving the healthcare system? Right Ans -
safe
effective
, patient-centered
timely
efficient
equitable
What are federal initiatives aimed at quality improvement in healthcare?
Right Ans - US department of health and human services (USDHHS)
American Medical Association
American Nurses Association
What are some programs and documents that aim to collect and provide
data that identify areas for improvement? Right Ans - national database
of nursing quality indicators
Patient safety and quality (an evidence-based handbook for nurses)
National patient safety goals (by the joint commission)
What is the patient protection and affordable care act (PPACA or ACA)?
Right Ans - changes implemented between 2010 and 2020 to make
healthcare affordable for all Americans
What is the national strategy for quality improvement in health care?
Right Ans - - better care: improve the overall quality by making healthcare
more client-centered, reliable, accessible, and safe
- Healthy people/healthy communities: improve the health of the US
population by supporting proven interventions to address behavioral,
social, and environmental determinants of health in addition to delivering
higher-quality care
- Affordable Care: reduce the cost of quality health care
What are the six priorities the National Quality Strategy focuses on?
Right Ans - 1) make care safer by reducing harm caused in the delivery of
care
2) ensure that each individual and family is engaged in their care
3) promote effective communication and coordination of care
4) promote the most effective prevention and treatment practices for the
leading causes of mortality
5) work with communities to promote wide use of best practices to enable
healthy living
What is quality? Right Ans - Degree to which health services for
individuals and populations increase the likelihood of desired health
outcomes and are consistent with current professional knowledge
Nurses can provide high-quality care by participating in _____ and _____.
Right Ans - quality improvement and quality management
What is quality improvement? Right Ans - systematic and continuous
actions that lead to measurable improvement in healthcare services and
the health status of targeted patient groups
What are some examples of quality improvement? Right Ans - using
advance directives
following privacy laws
striving to reduce errors
What is quality management? Right Ans - evaluates medical and nursing
processes for quality and effectiveness compared to accepted standards in
order to correct problems before they are clients and to prevent errors in
treatment
aims to provide cost-effective care by preventing overuse, misuse, and
underuse of medical resources
Quality improvement affects what? Right Ans - physiological outcomes
legal and ethical issues - clinical trials require legal consent and
researchers must confirm that new treatment is ethical
informatics system - to accurately record a client's medical history and
results of diagnostic tests
How can healthcare quality be improved? Right Ans - properly using
advance directives
following privacy laws
striving to reduce errors
What are the six aims for improving the healthcare system? Right Ans -
safe
effective
, patient-centered
timely
efficient
equitable
What are federal initiatives aimed at quality improvement in healthcare?
Right Ans - US department of health and human services (USDHHS)
American Medical Association
American Nurses Association
What are some programs and documents that aim to collect and provide
data that identify areas for improvement? Right Ans - national database
of nursing quality indicators
Patient safety and quality (an evidence-based handbook for nurses)
National patient safety goals (by the joint commission)
What is the patient protection and affordable care act (PPACA or ACA)?
Right Ans - changes implemented between 2010 and 2020 to make
healthcare affordable for all Americans
What is the national strategy for quality improvement in health care?
Right Ans - - better care: improve the overall quality by making healthcare
more client-centered, reliable, accessible, and safe
- Healthy people/healthy communities: improve the health of the US
population by supporting proven interventions to address behavioral,
social, and environmental determinants of health in addition to delivering
higher-quality care
- Affordable Care: reduce the cost of quality health care
What are the six priorities the National Quality Strategy focuses on?
Right Ans - 1) make care safer by reducing harm caused in the delivery of
care
2) ensure that each individual and family is engaged in their care
3) promote effective communication and coordination of care
4) promote the most effective prevention and treatment practices for the
leading causes of mortality
5) work with communities to promote wide use of best practices to enable
healthy living
