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Scientific Proceedings Of The Texas Children’S Hospital’S 16th Session Of The Advanced Quality Improvement And Patient Safety Program, Arjun M. Dangre Bds, Mph, Kelly Wallin Ms, Rn, Chse, Gertrude A. Leidich Mba, Rn, Angelo P. Giardino Md, Phd Nov 2018

Scientific Proceedings Of The Texas Children’S Hospital’S 16th Session Of The Advanced Quality Improvement And Patient Safety Program, Arjun M. Dangre Bds, Mph, Kelly Wallin Ms, Rn, Chse, Gertrude A. Leidich Mba, Rn, Angelo P. Giardino Md, Phd

Journal of Nursing & Interprofessional Leadership in Quality & Safety

The Texas Children’s Hospital’s Advanced Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (AQI) Program is a six month mixed didactic and experiential learning experience designed to improve patient care, lower costs, change the culture, and develop quality leaders. As a part of AQI program participants are grouped into teams and each team completes a healthcare related Quality Improvement (QI) project. Each project demonstrates use of various QI tools including process maps, fishbone diagrams, and key driver diagrams. The projects use the IHI ‘Model for Improvement’ as the primary QI methodology to achieve their aim. Three or more Plan-do-study-act (PDSA) cycles are required …


Quality Improvement And Safety In Healthcare: Reflections On Essential Frameworks To Guide Applied Scholarship That Promotes Transformation And Innovation, Angelo P. Giardino Md, Phd, Mph Sep 2016

Quality Improvement And Safety In Healthcare: Reflections On Essential Frameworks To Guide Applied Scholarship That Promotes Transformation And Innovation, Angelo P. Giardino Md, Phd, Mph

Journal of Nursing & Interprofessional Leadership in Quality & Safety

The publication of the inaugural issue of the Journal of Nursing and Interprofessional Leadership in Quality and Safety (JONILQS) is a unique milestone that is the culmination of visionary leadership, scholarly effort, and keen attention to the many tasks necessary to launch a journal. The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston’s School of Nursing launches this journal to address the focus on quality and safety initiatives and research that helps to make the health care we provide safer and better. This journal seeks to highlight practical work from the field that will change things for the better for …