You are welcome to the world of quality improvement and
patient safety. The provision of
health care services devoid of medical errors is the desire of “All” health
care professionals.
The occurrence of a
preventable deaths, injuries and permanent disabilities in our hospital(s)
usually brings to the fore how tasking and burdensome this task of saving lives
and putting smiles on the faces of patients and their families could be.
During the last decades, quality of health care and
patient safety has received increasing political and public health attention
fueled in part by growing local autonomy and democratization, decentralization
of health systems, and health care reforms. Worldwide, significant efforts are
underway to improve the quality of health care being offered to people and
quality improvement activities are critical to these effort.
To establish and maintain strengthened health care
system in Nigeria, students must be armed with hands on knowledge of quality
improvement methodologies in health care. Our sick health care system can start
to recover when leadership commitment is directed towards continuous quality
improvement taking into excellent cognizance the five dimensions of continuous
quality improvement – patient focused care, process of care focused, Data-based
decision making,continuous empowerment and capacity building of staff, organisational wide scope.
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