Table 1 Overview of the step by step process of quality circles
Methods | |
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Step 1: Preparation Objectives: establishing a participatory planning group, specifying desired programme goals, making sure clinical instructors are competent to operate the quality circle (QC) process | - 1-day training programme for clinical instructors on how to operate the QC process using modules - Hold discussion sessions to brainstorm QC application for patient safety - Arrange post-test to evaluate clinical instructor knowledge after training |
Step 2: Implementation Objectives: generating programme ideas, identifying problems of patient safety implementation by nursing students, stating outcomes of programme | - Identify problems faced by clinical instructors on nursing students - Make priorities from a selected problem - Arrange problem analysis using the Fishbone method - Determine and generate alternative solutions - Prepare a plan of action as a selection strategy to be used in 4 weeks |
Step 3: Planning for intervention evaluation Objectives: specifying evaluation design | - Capturing the intervention effects was measured by questionnaire |