Create a Great Quality System In Six Months
Create a Great Quality System In Six Months

Author: Cathy Balding

Publisher: Cathy Balding Qualityworks PL

Published: 2013-08-28

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13: 0992304415

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Are you looking for a quality system that drives great experiences for your consumers - and your staff? ‘Create a Great Quality System In Six Months: A blueprint for building the foundations of a great consumer experience’ is a step by step, month by month blueprint for building and implementing a quality system that staff will want to use to create a great consumer experience for every person, every time. The ‘3P’ quality system blueprint is based on the literature, applied research and real world experience that formed the basis of my first book ‘The Strategic Quality Manager’. It builds in buy-in: instead of developing your quality system and then starting on the long journey to gaining staff co-operation, ‘Create a Great Quality System’ does both at once – merging quality mechanics with quality mindsets to achieve great results for consumers. CGQS is primarily written for health and aged care, but the principles and steps apply equally to other service industries such as education and hospitality.

Transitions in Nursing eBook
Transitions in Nursing eBook

Author: Esther Chang

Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Published: 2019-07-31

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 0729587312

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Transitions in Nursing is a clear and contemporary resource that assists students as they transition to practising, registered nurses. Written by renowned editors, Esther Chang and John Daly, the fifth edition places a strong focus on competencies, clinical reasoning, critical thinking, reflective practice and professional frameworks, offering fresh insights and suggestions to support senior nursing students and recent graduates when faced with key issues during the transition to practice. Offering a range of strategies and a practical approach, Transitions in Nursing is a valuable resource that challenges and motivates students, educators and administrators throughout key stages of the transition to professional nursing practice. Emphasis on self-care and stress management help you to reflect on the psychosocial aspects of the overall transition experience Increased focus on conflict resolution provides you with clear strategies and skills when dealing with the world of work Stronger insights into primary healthcare help strengthen your understanding within the Australian and New Zealand nursing context Updated research and literature provide contemporary insights into key issues including organisational culture, communication with patients and families, learning to work in teams and professional development strategies Additional resources on Evolve eBook on VitalSource Instructor and Student Resources Two additional case studies and reflective questions on each chapter Chapter 8 reinforces concepts of self-care and stress management to reflect and enhance psychosocial aspects of the overall transition experience Chapter 14 has an increased focus on conflict resolution NEW chapter Understanding Primary Healthcare provides a comprehensive ANZ overview of primary healthcare nursing NEW evolve resources An eBook included in all print purchases

Transitions in Nursing - E-Book
Transitions in Nursing - E-Book

Author: Esther Chang

Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Published: 2024-01-31

Total Pages: 462

ISBN-13: 072959808X

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Now in its sixth edition, Transitions in Nursing continues to challenge, motivate and assist students as they transition to the workforce in different health environments. The text provides practical, real-life support for nurses preparing for professional practice, ensuring they have a comprehensive understanding of what they will encounter and how best to manage the transition period. It covers common issues faced by graduate nurses, important skills for dealing with the world of work, and the organisational environments in which nurses work. This edition features new contributors, new content, and the latest evidence-based research, statistics, standards and procedures, making it a must-have addition for all senior nursing students and recent graduates. Fully updated, evidence-based, comprehensive content from experts in the field Practical strategies and suggestions for removing stress, strain and culture shock A focus on self-care Case studies, reflective questions and exercises throughout to help apply learning to the real-life workplace Student and Instructor resources on Evolve: Case studies + reflective questions New chapter on infection prevention and control in the current climate New chapter on bullying and strategies to deal with it New content on cultural safety

The Executive Guide to Implementing Quality Systems
The Executive Guide to Implementing Quality Systems

Author: Peter Mears

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 1995-08-01

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 9781884015533

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Presenting an unusual and unique system for Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI), this new book is geared for executives who want or need to support quality improvement in their organizations. It is the contributions made by CEO's and upper management that moves the quality process forward, and because of this structure, The Executive Guide to Implementing Quality focuses on the concepts, thinking, and systems necessary for management to operationalize the CQI philosophy. Because quality is not a management problem but rather a problem that involves and requires all people working together at all levels to participate and cooperate, management must engage the organization in the processes that will improve the quality of their goods or services. It is, however, management's job to lead, organize, structure, motivate, and involve the organization in those strategies and systems that will ensure quality improvement. This book explains how to do that. Readers are given a series of exercises and explanations that will help them master the skills and understanding required to identify the management systems they need to support their quality improvement. After reading about a concept, they are asked to contribute to exercises designed to inspire creative and innovative thinking and the exploration of multi-functional options. And because it is the job of management to initiate the quality movement, this book shows how to change defensive thoughts like "that won't work for me" into "what is there that will work here." In addition to showing management how to take the lead in installing CQI in their organization, it also shows how to install the concepts through leadership teams, how to bring out the best in people, how to get top performance from employees and become a world-class organization, and how to reinforce the behaviors necessary to achieve the visions and goals of the organization. This workbook is an easy-and-quick-to-use guide that shows how to identify the support systems that generate desirable outcomes and reinforces them through positive actions.

BASICS: Be Always Sure Inputs Create Success
BASICS: Be Always Sure Inputs Create Success

Author: Paul Cunningham

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-11-29

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 1000224880

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The BASICS Handbook is designed to show personnel at all levels within a manufacturing operations environment that, with easy to understand continuous improvement tools, they can make a difference to operational performance where safety, quality, cost, delivery, and people are paramount to business success. The tools and techniques throughout, based upon examples from the author’s experience, demonstrate that no matter what industry, they can bring the desired added value. This book will help any manufacturing shop floor add value in terms of quality/cost and delivery performance. It will also show how using tools and techniques from the “coal face” out will improve process performance by using simple data collection and measurement – not only on outputs, but just as importantly on “critical to quality inputs” such as process parameters and their processing windows – to deliver the desired output KPIs. The power and confidence that this gives to local experts and processing teams enable them to make informed decisions, preventing drifts and non-conforming product: prevention being better than cure. The result of these changes is a tangible cultural impact on the shop floor, raising the level at which operating teams work and improving morale. BASICS will enable staff at all levels to understand their performance measures and produce sustainable results. The book contains practical tools, methods, and techniques that have been tried and tested by the author over a successful 30-year career as a contractor transforming variable processing and inconsistent KPI results.

Value by Design
Value by Design

Author: Eugene C. Nelson

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-02-23

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 0470901357

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Value by Design is a practical guide for real-world improvement in clinical microsystems. Clinical microsystem theory, as implemented by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and health care organizations nationally and internationally, is the foundation of high-performing front line health care teams who achieve exceptional quality and value. These authors combine theory and principles to create a strategic framework and field-tested tools to assess and improve systems of care. Their approach links patients, families, health care professionals and strategic organizational goals at all levels of the organization: micro, meso and macrosystem levels to achieve the ultimate quality and value a health care system is capable of offering.

ISO 9000 Quality Systems Handbook - updated for the ISO 9001:2008 standard
ISO 9000 Quality Systems Handbook - updated for the ISO 9001:2008 standard

Author: David Hoyle

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-10-26

Total Pages: 816

ISBN-13: 1136438254

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Whether you are establishing a quality management system for the first time or improving your existing system, this best-selling guide to effective quality management using the ISO 9000 family of standards as a framework for business process management (BPM) and improvement is an essential addition to your quality bookshelf. For newcomers to the field and those needing a refresh on the fundamental principles, quality expert David Hoyle covers the crucial background including the importance and implications of quality system management, enabling those seeking ISO 9001 certification to take a holistic approach that will bring about true business improvement and sustained success. Packed with insights into how the standard has been used, misused and misunderstood, ISO 9000 Quality Systems Handbook will help you to build an effective management system, help you decide if ISO 9001 certification is right for your company and gently guide you through the terminology, requirements and implementation of practices to enhance performance. With chapter headings matched to the structure of the standard and clause numbers included for ease of reference, each chapter now also begins with a preview to help you decide which to study and which to skip. The book also includes essential concepts and principles, important issues to be understood before embarking upon implementation, different approaches that can be taken to achieving, sustaining and improving quality, and guidance on system assessment, certification and continuing development. Clear tables, summary checklists and diagrams make light work of challenging concepts and downloadable template report forms, available from the book's companion website, take the pain out of compiling the necessary documentation. Don't waste time trying to achieve certification without this tried and trusted guide to improving your business—let David Hoyle lead you towards a better quality management system and see the difference it can make to your processes and profits!

ISO 9000 Quality Systems Handbook
ISO 9000 Quality Systems Handbook

Author: David Hoyle

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 816

ISBN-13: 1856176843

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THE definitive reference source for understanding and implementing ISO 9000 and the principles of contemporary quality management.