Improving the Quality of Nursing Care

Improving the quality of care for nursing home patients.

Improving quality of care in nursing homes: what works?

published in this issue of CMAJ, is notable for framing its approach to intervention in a multidisciplinary chronic disease model of care. This is an important contribution to improving care in nursing homes because it integrates process measures with outcomes that are important to the resident’s functional status and quality of life. In contrast, much of the North American research on care in ...

Improving the quality of geriatric nursing care: enduring outcomes from the geriatric nursing education consortium.

The nation's aging demography, few nursing faculty with gerontological nursing expertise, and insufficient geriatric content in nursing programs have created a national imperative to increase the supply of nurses qualified to provide care for older adults. Geriatric Nursing Education Consortium (GNEC), a collaborative program of the John A. Hartford Foundation, the American Association of Colle...

Improving the Quality of Healthy Aging Care, Participatory Action Research

Objectives: In elderly care provided by health centers, healthy elderly are neglected in care and education. This qualitative study aimed to standardize healthy ageing care. Methods & Materials: This participatory action research was conducted from 1395 to 1397 in Motahari Health Center of Mashhad, with the participation of 11 health care provider, 54 healthy elderly and 54 family members. The...

Improving nursing home quality of care through outcomes data: the MDS quality indicators.

BACKGROUND The quality of care provided to nursing home residents is a continuing source of concern throughout the world. In the United States, the Health Care Financing Administration mandated the use of a standardised resident assessment instrument, called the Minimum Data Set (MDS) which facilitated the development of a set of nursing home quality of care indicators. METHODS The MDS Qualit...

Assessing quality of nursing care.

In parallel with developments in medicine much has been written in the nursing press, particularly over the past few years, on quality assurance and audit. In nursing early approaches focused on broad, proselytising statements about the nature of nursing, why quality was often not achieved, and the changes required.'1 Later, nursing practice was compared with pre-formulated standards and criter...