Quality Council
The Quality Council monitors the appropriateness and effectiveness of the care provided by the nursing staff while assessing and ensuring compliance with established standards of care and practice.
The Quality Council activities include:
- Annually evaluates, revises, and approves the Nursing Quality Improvement Plan for nursing care.
- Integrates the nursing quality improvement process with the hospital plan to detect trends and patterns of performance that affect more than one department or service.
- Monitors and ensures compliance with established standards of the Practice, Quality, Leadership, and Professional Development Councils.
- Ensures compliance with reporting schedule for Performance Improvement.
- Endorses and monitors unit specific performance improvement activities.
- Collaborates with other disciplines to monitor and evaluate compliance to standards and makes recommendations for continuous quality improvement.
- Monitors and ensures compliance with established state, federal and regulatory standards.
- Evaluates outcomes of any work redesign initiatives.
- Represents the nursing perspective in ethical/legal issues within NCBH.
For more information please contact:
Judy B. McDowell, Professional Practice Manager
Randy L. Williams, Professional Practice Coordinator