January 2026 University Catalog

NURS-FPX4020 Improving Quality of Care and Patient Safety

In this course, students build and demonstrate the skills necessary to contribute to the quality improvement of health care and patient safety. Students analyze elements of successful quality improvements as well as factors that lead to patient safety risks. In addition, students identify organizational interventions to promote patient safety and facilitate quality improvement processes to achieve desired patient, systems, and population outcomes. For BSN, FlexPath option students only. Students who are in a nursing program cannot take a NURS-FPX course as an elective.

Program Points

3

Prerequisite

Students who have received credit for NURS-FPX4000 may not take NURS-FPX4020.