Abstract

Accrediting organizations for academic nursing programs lack prescriptive processes for quality improvement. To prepare its undergraduate and graduate nursing programs for the accreditation process, leaders in one school of nursing translated healthcare's predominant quality assurance and performance improvement (QAPI) model as a transformational strategy to standardize its quality management program.

Author Details

John Leger, PhD, MBA, RN; Sharron R. Forest, DNP, APRN, NNP-BC -- School of Nursing, University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston, Galveston, Texas, USA

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Keywords:

Accreditation, QAPI, Quality Improvement

Conference Name

31st International Nursing Research Congress

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Sigma Theta Tau International

Conference Location

Virtual Event

Conference Year

2020

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Transforming an academic quality program: Collaborating to integrate a Quality Assurance/Performance Improvement (QAPI) Model

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Accrediting organizations for academic nursing programs lack prescriptive processes for quality improvement. To prepare its undergraduate and graduate nursing programs for the accreditation process, leaders in one school of nursing translated healthcare's predominant quality assurance and performance improvement (QAPI) model as a transformational strategy to standardize its quality management program.