JM PhD, Health System Researcher and quality improvement officer in Tehran Heart Center Hospital, Department of quality improvement (head of department), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
The first was attended by 9 practitioners (ED nurses - 8, quality improvement officer - 1) the second by 8 practitioners (emergency physicians - 2, geriatrician - 1, occupational therapists - 2, physiotherapists - 2, social worker - 1).
Liz Gray (Quality Improvement Officer Languages and Literacy, City of Edinburgh Council) and Gillian Tee (Director of Education, City of Edinburgh Council) opened the conference while Sarah Breslin from Scottish Centre for Information on Language Teaching (SCILT) gave an overview of the recent reforms in language teaching in Scotland.
Until they were fired without explanation on June 1, Mrs. Mitchell and Mrs. Galle had worked a combined 47 years at Winkler County Memorial Hospital here, most recently as its compliance and quality improvement officers.
A survey of staff (n = 119), including managers, health informatics officers (HIOs), quality improvement staff, registered nurses (RNs), enrolled nurses (ENs)/endorsed enrolled nurses (EENs) and assistants in nursing (AINs) was carried out in four residential aged care facilities in New South Wales and Victoria, Australia.
Parand A, Dopson S, Vincent C. The role of chief executive officers in a quality improvement initiative: a qualitative study.
Standards were established by a Quality Improvement Team, which is a multidisciplinary team made up of the District Health Officer (a nurse-midwife), Safe Motherhood Coordinator (a nurse-midwife), midwives, nurses, clinical officers, anaesthetic technicians and laboratory technicians.
Galle headed quality improvement and utilization management for the hospital, while Mitchell served as its compliance officer.
CREST: Critical Care Excellence in Sepsis and Trauma; MUSC: Medical University of South Carolina; MOA: Memorandum of Agreement; KII: Key Informant Interview; QI: Quality Improvement; ED Emergency Departmentt; REACH: Remote Evaluation of Acute Ischemic Stroke; SC DMH South Carolina Department of Mental Healthh; CEO: Chief Executive Officer.
At one service, three senior positions (executive officer, medical director and a dedicated systems manager) took responsibility for quality improvement activities.
Tools such as the World Health Organization's Workload Indicators of Staffing Need (WISN) could help identify staffing requirements aligned to workload., Orientation of medical officers to the latest guidelines could help convince them to support quality improvement practices.
