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State and federal inspection reports of New Jersey's ASCs are now available online, giving patients an opportunity to make more informed choices abo...

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Archive > January, 2006 Vol. VII, No. 1

Staffing

Learning to Love CQI

Ann Geier, RN, MS, CNOR, CASC

Ann Geier, RN, MS, CNOR, CASC CQI, TQM, and PI can come across as self-improvement alphabet soup. But continuous quality improvement, like its cousin acronyms total quality management and performance improvement, is more than just the term of the day. For us, it means the improved quality of care we provide to our patients. Who can be against that?

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