A nursing instructor is evaluating a student's understanding of ...

[Lobcity]

A nursing instructor is evaluating a student's understanding of the primary difference between QA and QI. Which response by the student would indicate that the student understood?
 
  a. QI is reactive, and QA is proactive.
  b. QA's emphasis is on maintaining minimum standards of care, and QI's emphasis is uponidentifying real and potential problems.
 c. QA documents quality, and QI reports incidents and errors.
  d. QI is more a single program, and QA is more a management approach.

Question 2

A local hospital is implementing a systematic process of organization-wide participation and partnership in planning and implementing improvement methods to test evidence-based practices at all levels of the services.
 
  The hospital is most likely implementing which of the following? a. QI c. QM
  b. QA d. TM

[gstein359]

Answer to Question 1

B
The primary focus of QA (quality assurance) is upon maintaining the minimum standards of care, and
it tends to be reactive rather than proactive. The main focus of QI (quality improvement) is on the
identification of real and potential problems, and it tends to be proactive instead of reactive.

Answer to Question 2

A
QI (quality improvement) is an organization (system-wide) process of organization-wide participation
and partnership in planning and implementing improvement methods to understand and meet customer
needs and expectations. It is proactive in its approach, and other terms that may be used
interchangeably for QI are TQM (total quality management) and PI (process improvement).

[Lobcity]

Correct answers!

[gstein359]

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