NURS 6305 - Quality Management in Nursing and Health Care

3 credit hours

Prerequisites: Admission to the TN eCampus MSN program; NURS 6000, NURS 6001, NURS 6101, and NURS 6003; prerequisite or corequisites: NURS 6301 and NURS 6302. Provides a multidisciplinary background in the science of health care quality management. Covers the evolution of the quality movement, theories and thought leaders, current quality of care issues, research and innovations, intervention strategies, and instruments as well as an analysis of quality management system models in health care. Opportunity will be provided to develop and plan for execution of quality improvement plans and will use a quality indicator assessment program, such as AHRQ or NDNQI as the framework to develop a paper that identifies quality indicators, their measurements, and the nursing interventions to improve the quality measurement. Value-based purchasing will be defined and interventions to assure quality and cost containment discussed. Offered spring, summer, and fall semesters.

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