Quality And Safety Gap Analysis

As a nurse leader, you must be able to assess your organization’s ability to deliver safe, high-quality patient care. In so doing, you may be required to perform a gap analysis of a quality or safety issue as the first step in improving outcomes. Failure to meet benchmarks for safe and effective patient care can have reimbursement, regulatory, and legal consequences. Quality And Safety Gap Analysis

This assessment provides an opportunity to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes required to successfully implement changes that improve patient outcomes by:

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• Evaluating the current culture of an organization.
• Performing an outcome gap analysis.
• Determining what changes are needed to bridge the gap.
• Examining current thinking on this topic contained in the literature.

Quality and safety are everyone’s responsibility as a team of interprofessional care delivery partners. Together, we develop policies that support quality and safe care delivery. As part of the interprofessional team, nurses are leaders in care and thus are responsible and accountable for leading and providing safe, quality care.

Health care delivery is structured around evidence-based information. Quality is defined by exploring proven, evidence-based information. After reviewing and defining evidence-based information, the interprofessional team applies this knowledge to assess the organization’s or the practice setting’s ability to provide evidence-based care delivery. When a gap in care is identified, it is important to propose an evidence-based change and to execute a plan for improved care.

Quality And Safety Gap Analysis