Core Competency:
- Quality Improvement – Standard 63: Use systems of quality assurance and quality improvement to enhance client/patient care
AT Milestones:
- Practice Based Learning and Improvement:
- PBLI-1: Evidence-Based Practice: Locates, appraises, and assimilates evidence from scientific studies related to the patients’ health problems.
- PBLI-2: Quality Improvement: Improves systems in which the athletic trainer provides care.
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PBLI-3: Quality Improvement: Learns and improves via performance audit.
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PBLI-4: Quality Improvement: Monitors practice with a goal for improvement.
- System-Based Performance:
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SBP-1: Patient Safety: Recognizes system error and advocates for system improvement.
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SBP-2: Patient Safety: Emphasizes patient safety.
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SBP-3: Cost-Effectiveness: Identifies forces that impact the cost of health care, and advocates for, and practices cost-effective care.
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SBP-5: Advocates for individuals and community health.
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This course is eligible for Category D CEUs
Purpose:
In accordance with Standard 63 of the 2020 CAATE standards, the athletic trainer should be prepared to use systems of quality assurance and quality improvement to enhance client/patient care. This requires the athletic trainer to acknowledge the relevance of quality improvement to their professional practice and understand how to properly implement the behaviors necessary for ongoing quality improvement while simultaneously critically evaluating their own practice. A successful completion of this course along with accompanying exercises will demonstrate proficient knowledge in the area of quality improvement.
Key Learning Objectives:
- Define quality improvement and its components.
- Explain the systems present within their own clinical practice.
- Identify areas of improvements within their own clinical practice.
- Apply the Model for Improvement in their own clinical practice.
- Appraise and modify their own clinical practice to improve system performance.
