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The discipline of improvement : something old, something new?
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posted on 2008-03-03, 10:24 authored by Charlotte L. Clarke, Jan Reed, David Wainwright, Siobhan McClelland, Veronica Swallow, Jane Harden, Graham Walton, Anna WalshIn response to calls to improve the efficacy of health care services, there is an
increasing focus on the processes of achieving a continuous improvement of services
and practices. One specific response is that of the NHS Modernization Agency and
National Health Service University in relation to the Discipline of Improvement in
Health and Social Care. This paper draws on a study that explored the underpinning
knowledge base of the Discipline of Improvement and focuses on describing the
framework that was developed. The two-dimensional framework is composed of
five primary categories, which cross-link to 11 competencies. The study concludes
that the Discipline of Improvement draws together a group of ideas that together
cohere to form a distinctive model to aid the improvement of health care. While
some of these ideas are well-established, the way in which the Discipline of
Improvement makes connections between them offers something new to our
understanding of change in the complex world of health care provision, and to
nursing management.
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CLARKE, C.L. ... et al, 2004. The discipline of improvement : something old, something new? Journal of nursing management, 12, pp. 85–96Publisher
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This article is Restricted Access. It was published in the journal, Journal of nursing education [© Blackwell Publishing Ltd] and is available at: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0966-0429ISSN
0966-0429Language
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