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This chapter provides community nurses with a practical, step-by-step approach to assessing and improving the quality of care they give to clients. The chapter begins with a brief overview of current thinking on quality improvement techniques, followed by a detailed description of the setting up of a quality improvement team, the standard-setting and audit process, the undertaking of action to improve quality and finally the reauditing process. Examples will be given which relate specifically to community nursing.
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McKenna, H. (1997). A Practical Approach to Monitoring Quality in Community Nursing Practice. In: Mason, C. (eds) Achieving Quality in Community Health Care Nursing. Community Health Care Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13904-0_6
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