Quality Management in Nursing and Health Care (Professional Reference-Nursing)

This book is about the management of quality, both as a specialty and as a philosophy to be integrated into health care practices. Content includes the international and national health care context, history of the quality movement in health care, conceptual underpinnings, related processes, applications in practice, roles and settings, and concludes with trends, issues, and opportunities related to the management of quality.-- theoretical foundation provides users with a strong conceptual base upon which to build application knowledge-- 40 expert contributors, representing various disciplines, present state-of-the-art, authoritative content-- current, comprehensive and relevant material provides users with "the best of the best"-- international and national setting guides users to an understanding of the environmental context of quality managementQuality Management in Nursing and Health Care (Professional Reference-Nursing), 1st was published 1995 under ISBN 9780827360563 and ISBN 0827360568.