A nurse is educating students on the history of quality improvement. The teaching has been effective when one of the students states that the historically, quality improvement focused on
a. "controlling process by inspection so that errors were prevented.".
b. "quality improvement did not begin until recently.".
c. "proactive approaches to lessen errors.".
d. "error prevention strategies.".
A
Teaching is effective when the student states that historically, quality improvement focused on controlling process by inspection so that errors were prevented. Later, the emphasis changed from inspection to proactive approaches to error prevention.
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