Quality is an overriding principle in the AACN BSN Essentials document. Essential II specifically describes the role of the baccalaureate nurse in quality improvement. As you complete this course, reflect on how you will implement lessons learned about quality improvement into your future nursing practice. Provide details about what you plan to do to improve quality in your current or ideal future professional nursing position. Think big!
Sherwood, G., & Barnsteiner, J. (Eds.). (2012). Quality and safety in nursing: A competency approach to improving outcomes. Ames, IA: Wiley-Blackwell.
Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper that discusses the following:
- Identifies one innovation that has influenced the health care industry.
- Discuss and explain how clinical research has influenced the innovation that you chose:
- What reserach has been done and what does it show about the innovation?
- What type of research is needed in the future?
- Compare and describe the external factors that influence research on the health care innovation that you chose, for example: stakeholders, funding sources, needs of the patient population.