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Izabela Kazana1, Mary Dolansky2
1University Health Services, University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Background:
Quality improvement (QI) competence is included in the American Association of Colleges of Nursing Essentials for pre-licensure and graduate degrees and is invaluable to nurses at all levels of professional practice. Among barriers to integration of QI competency is insufficient QI knowledge and skills among faculty and practicing nurses. Many nurses completed their nursing education before the introduction of the QI competencies in nursing programs, and it is understandable if they lack QI knowledge, skills, and attitudes.
Purpose:
The purpose of this review is to provide information about QI online resources to nursing faculty, nurse leaders, and nurses in clinical practice with educational and training tools and opportunities to broaden their QI competence.
Methods:
The authors completed a comprehensive review of online resources for learning and/or teaching QI in health care and explored the websites of eight organizations.
Results:
Within eight selected websites, the authors chose over 20 online self-study resources to learn and/or teach QI in health care with content for beginner, intermediate, and advanced learners.
Conclusion:
The QI online resources are easily accessible and can enable learning and engagement in QI of nursing faculty, students, and practicing nurses with no or limited exposure to the discipline.
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