Module Components

• Overview
• Assignments

Topics

• Why performance improvement?
• The performance improvement process
• Data and information technology in improving practice
• Additional Resources

Nurs 659 - Organizational/Professional Dimensions

Module 6: Performance Improvement

Additional Resources

Participants are directed to the course text for a comprehensive listing of valuable print and electronic resources.

The following are advanced readings that are requisite to leading efficient and productive organizations:

Transforming Care at the Bedside (A Robert Wood Johnson initiative to prototype nursing unit-level strategies to improve the work environment and quality of care)

Charting Nursing's Future: (RWJ Briefs)

1. Nursing's Prescription for a Reformed Health System http://www.rwjf.org/files/research/20090408chartingnursing9.pdf
   
2. Strengthening Public Health Nursing
   New Report Identifies Strategies to Strengthen Public Health Nursing http://www.rwjf.org/files/research/20081010chartingissue8.pdf
3. How Nurse Leaders in Policymaking Positions Are Transforming Public Health
   Nurse Leaders in Policy-Making Positions are Transforming Health Care http://www.rwjf.org/pr/product.jsp?id=35349

Seven Leadership Leverage Points for Organizational-Level Improvement in Health Care. A white paper for dramatic system level changes appropriate to any leadership role.

Hospital CEO Survival Guide to Performance Measurement

Newhouse, R.P. & Poe, S. (eds). (2005). Measuring Patient Safety. (2005). Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers

Newhouse, R.P., (2007). Accelerating improvement: Implications of the Institute of Medicine report for nurse executives, JONA, 37(6), 264-268.

Newhouse, R.P. (2006). Evidence and The Executive: Selecting Measures for Safety and Quality Improvement Initiatives. JONA, 36(3), 109-113.