Staff nurse initiated total quality management projects achieve quality nursing outcomes
By: Diane R. LaRochelle and Nayereh Shahinpour, guest editors
Contributors: LaRochelle, Diane R; Shahinpour, Nayereh
Series: The Nursing clinics of North America -- v.30, no.1; Nursing clinics of North America -- v.30, no.1
Publisher: Saunders
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
Subjects: Nursing -- Quality control; Nursing audit
Notes: "March 1995"

Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: value: Use of total quality management sparks staff nurse participation in continuous quality improvement; value: Protecting the provider from tuberculosis exposure; value: Improving quality of patient care services for outpatient observation patients; value: Improving the admission process from the emergency departments to the critical care areas; value: Reducing central line catheter infections in bone marrow transplant patients; value: Expansion of the seizure monitoring program: a collaborative approach; value: Needlestick injuries: a multidisciplinary concern; value: The medical-psychiatric consultation liaison nurse: meeting psychosocial needs for medical patients in the acute care setting; value: Contracted visiting hours in the coronary care unit: a patient-centered quality improvement project; value: Renovation of a semiprivate patient room: Bowman center geriatric rehabilitation unit; value: Continuous quality improvement for peritoneal dialysis patients; value: It all comes down to degrees: the QI process between two units; value: Where does it hurt? an interdisciplinary approach to improving the quality of pain assessment and management in the neonatal intensive care unit