Skilled for improvement?

"Part of the reason why quality improvement is so hard to achieve may be that those involved in leading QI programmes need to deploy three different but interrelated types of improvement skills: technical, soft and learning skills."

Skilled for improvement?
The Health Foundation
March 2014

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Caring for people with liver disease: a competence framework for nursing

"Delivery of high quality care that produces better outcomes for patients needs a high quality workforce: skilled and competent practitioners who are fit to deliver care in the future health and social care system."

Caring for people with liver disease: a competence framework for nursing
Royal College of Nursing
February 2013

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Patient safety competency assessment

"This review aims to identify the available assessment tools for different patient safety domains and evaluate them according to Miller’s four competency levels."


Assessing the patient safety competencies of healthcare professionals: a systematic review
A Okuyama, K Martowirono, B Bijnen
BMJ Quality and Safety, 2011, 20(11):991-1000

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