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Quality Assurance

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  • © 1990

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Authors:
  1. Diana Sale
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Part of the book series: The Essentials of Nursing Management Series (ENMS)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. An introduction to quality assurance

    • Diana Sale
    Pages 1-8

  3. Standards of care

    • Diana Sale
    Pages 9-17

  4. Quality assurance measures — performance. Nursing audit

    • Diana Sale
    Pages 18-23

  5. Quality assurance measures — performance. Quality Patient Care Scale (Qualpacs)

    • Diana Sale
    Pages 24-28

  6. Quality assurance measures — performance. ‘Monitor’

    • Diana Sale
    Pages 29-36

  7. Quality circles

    • Diana Sale
    Pages 37-41

  8. Measuring outcome standards

    • Diana Sale
    Pages 42-48

  9. Quality now and the future

    • Diana Sale
    Pages 49-51

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 52-57
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About this book

An outline of some of the most commonly used methods for assuring the quality of care and their advantages and disadvantages aimed at assisting the charge nurse or ward sister choose the most appropriate measuring tool for his or her clinical area.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Quality Assurance

  • Authors: Diana Sale

  • Series Title: The Essentials of Nursing Management Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10189-4

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1990

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-10189-4Published: 18 June 1990

  • Series ISSN: 2947-0536

  • Series E-ISSN: 2947-0544

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 57

  • Topics: Nursing

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