Experiences of Newly Qualified Nurses' Engagement with Quality Improvement in Practice: A Qualitative Follow-Up Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Nurse education plays an essential role in preparing future nurses to engage with quality improvement (QI) initiatives in their organisations and improve patient care. However, frontline nurses continue to report that a lack of QI knowledge hinders their abilities to engage in improvement work. In the UK, student nurses are now trained in QI within their degree to enable them to contribute to improvements once qualified.

Objectives

This qualitative follow-up study investigated the sustainability of QI engagement in nurses who undertook QI training and a QI project during their degree and explored the factors influencing their engagement in QI once qualified.

Methods

This paper followed the COREQ criteria to report upon 10 semi-structured interviews undertak

SUBMITTER: Armstrong L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11503377 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature