Nursing Audit and Quality Assurance Questions and Answers

Answer: C

It falls under Outcome criteria.

In Donabedian's model of quality of care, structure refers to the setting and resources (staff, buildings, equipment), process to what is actually done in giving care, and outcome to the effect of care on the patient's health. An improvement in the patient's health is an end result, so it is an outcome.

Structural and process criteria assess the inputs and activities, not the result. Planning is not one of the three categories.

Answer: A

The process is Quality assurance.

The definition in the question is the standard nursing definition of quality assurance: an ongoing, systematic process designed to evaluate and promote excellence in the health care provided to clients, by setting standards, measuring care against them and acting on the gaps.

Quality improvement is a related approach focused on changing processes, a quality index is a single measure, and assessment is one step of the nursing process. None of them is the term this definition names.