Office of Nursing

Quality Assurance/Quality Improvement

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Progress 2006 - 2007

In 2006, Dr. Janice Carson was appointed as Deputy Director and Liaison to the Districts. Dr. Carson mapped out an integration project in response to the district requests for better integration of state initiatives, including Quality Assurance, Technical assistance and site visits. A survey of state office public health branches and offices (Environmental Health, Laboratory, Emergency Preparedness, Family Health Branch, Prevention Branch, and Chronic Disease Branch) showed that all state offices and programs are committed to collaborating on the goal of taking quality to a higher level. All disciplines and all program areas actively participated in the internal assessment process for developing plans for a new and integrated approach to quality. The combined success of each state office program’s commitment to quality and the enthusiastic support by local public health for taking quality to a higher level are strong indicators for success in achieving this goal.

In 2007, Meshell McCloud, RN, APRN, WHNP-BC, PNNP, was appointed Assistant Chief Nurse and assigned as manager of the QA/QI Initiative. Since Ms. McCloud assumed her duties, the plans to finish the revision of the QA/QI Manual resumed. The new Record Retention Schedule was approved by the Division of Archives and History and distributed to the districts and state offices. The new CD-ROM on clinical record documentation was distributed to all health districts. On September 24, 2007, a VICS training was provided to Districts to review the new clinical record documentation standards.

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