Geriatric Nursing Paper: A Quality Improvement Approach to Develop an Educational Initiative for an Age-Friendly Health System
The Geriatric Nursing journal has published a paper, "A Quality Improvement Approach to Develop an Educational Initiative for an Age-Friendly Health System."
In the paper, researchers describe a quality improvement approach to develop and pilot test educational materials with an aim to educate MinuteClinic providers in the provision of age-friendly care using the Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative 4Ms Framework: What Matters, Medication, Mentation and Mobility. The team used surveys, focus groups and site visits to develop educational prototypes with Plan-Do-Study-Act iterative cycles to improve the education.
The information gained from the staff aided in the development and the iterative improvement of the materials. This paper highlights the benefits of using a quality improvement approach in development of clinician education in provision of age-friendly care.
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Learn more about JAHF's co-funding of this work through a grant to Case Western Reserve University.
