PSQCM
PSQCM
PSQCM
Care Movement
University of South Florida
College of Nursing
Hannah Lai
Introduction & Objectives
Define what is the Patient Safety and Quality
Care Movement (PSQCM)
Explain the origin of the PSQCM
Describe the different types of safety errors
Identify Institute of Medicine (IOM) key concepts
Discuss the significance of PSQCM to the nursing
profession
Discuss the personal significance of PSQCM
Patient Safety and Quality Care Movement
• Patient safety:
• “the prevention of harm to patients”1
• Quality care:
• “the degree to which health services for individuals and populations
increase the likelihood of desired health outcomes and are consistent
with current professional knowledge”1
• IOM report (1999): To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System2
• 98,000 hospital deaths per year due to medical errors
• Cost of medical errors
• A “bad apple” problem?
• Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century5
• The Six Domains of Health Care Quality6:
Safe
Effective
Patient-centered
Timely
Efficient
Equitable
Significance to Nursing
The “front line” and the “last line”7
Personal Significance
• Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN)9
• My goals and contributions as a new graduate nurse:
• Provide patient-centered care
• Work in interdisciplinary teams
• Employ evidence-based practices
• Apply quality improvement
• Utilize informatics
Conclusion
Improve
is a verb
Practice “pivotal
nursing”