Quality Assurance Plan

APRNs with prescriptive authority must have in place a written quality assurance plan by which patient care is evaluated and quality is maintained by the APRN.

Plan must:

• Be specific to practice area
• Be signed, dated and reviewed annually by APRN and collaborating physician/physicians
• Include written plan for corrective action, if indicated and follow-up
• Include evidence of compliance to be available to the ASBN upon request

Examples of Quality Assurance measures

(not an inclusive list – you may have other measures)

• Retrospective chart review
• Concurrent with case management
• Review of practice where patient problems are suspected or have been identified
• Audit of specific types of medical problems/conditions
• Reflective practice – includes a self-assessment and peer feed-back from a peer who has a similar role/practice – peer must ID 3 things the APRN does well and 3 things that could enhance the APRN’s practice
• Patient interview (consumer satisfaction)