Quality Course for Nurses
Overview
The purpose of this course is to familiarize the audience with the concept of quality and the process of quality improvement across the Health Care continuum. This course focuses on the history and evolution of quality, its terms, principles, theories, and practices. The audience is introduced to a diverse collection of methods of improving quality, including but not limited to healthcare quality, planning/ accreditation/certification, document control, and documentation, data management, incident report/ root cause analysis, quality improvement, international standards & guidelines six sigma and other tools that are an integral component of Process improvement and customer satisfaction.
Course Objectives
By the end of this program, participants will be able to:
- Understand total quality concepts and techniques for managing, controlling, and improving quality.
- Improve nurses’ knowledge, skills, and practice of health care quality.
- Explain the different meanings of the quality concept and its influence.
- Describe several techniques and quality management tools.
- Predict the errors in the measuring process, distinguishing their nature and the root causes.
- Understand regulations and phases of the quality system certification process.
Duration
From: 06/08/2023 – 17/09/2023 (Sunday)
Target Audience
Post Graduate Nurses
Course Schedule
| Date | Time | Topic | Speaker |
| Sunday,06/08/2023 10:00am – 11:00am | 60 min | Disclosure& Pretest | Mrs. Gehan Mohamed |
| 11:00am – 12:00pm | 60 min | Introduction to Health Care Quality | Dr. Sherry Elkess |
| 12:00pm – 02:00pm | 120min | Planning/ Accreditation/ Certification | Mrs. Nahed Ramadan |
| Sunday,13/08/2023 10:00am – 11:00am | 60 min | Quality of Care Initiatives in Infection Control | Dr. Noor Allah Ahmed |
| 11:00am – 12:00pm | 60 min | Document Control and Documentation | Mrs. Noha Ahmed |
| 12:00pm – 01:30pm | 90 min | Data Management | Dr. Mohamed Abdelhamed |
| Sunday,20/08/2023 10:00am – 11:30pm | 90 min | Introduction to Risk Management | Mr. Belal Ebrahim |
| 11:30am – 01:30pm | 120min | Quality Improvement Tools (PDCA) | Mrs. Nahed Ramadan |
| Sunday,27/08/2023 10:00am – 12:00pm | 120min | Incident Report/ Root Cause Analysis | Dr. Noor Allah Ahmed |
| 12:00pm – 01:00pm | 60 min | FMEA | Mr. Belal Ebrahim |
| Sunday,03/09/2023 10:00am – 11:00am | 60 min | Quality Improvement Tools “Six Sigma” | Mrs. Nahed Ramadan |
| 11:00am – 01:00pm | 120min | Patient Safety | Mr. Hady Elhussien |
| Sunday,10/09/2023 10:00am – 11:00am | 60 min | International Standards & Guidelines | Mrs. Nahed Ramadan |
| 11:00am – 12:00pm | 60 min | Patient Tracer & Quality Audit | Mrs. Nahed Ramadan |
| 12:00pm – 02:00pm | 120min | Environmental Safety | Mr. Belal Ebrahim |
| Sunday,17/09/2023 10:00am – 11:00am | 60 min | Evaluation & Post test | Mrs. Gehan Mohamed |
NCPD Hours
This course is offering 22 ANCC credit hours provided by Nursing Continuing Professional Development Unit (NCPD) in Children’s Cancer Hospital Egypt, which is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.