A Primer on Understanding Pediatric Health Care Quality Measurement.

Advanced practice registered nurses implement evidence-based care guidelines and assess the quality of care delivered to pediatric and adolescent populations to ensure that the highest standards of care are provided to the patients and their families. Standardized health care quality measures allow for assessment of clinical competence, monitoring of equitable health care distribution, improvement of provider/institutional accountability, development of standards for accreditation and certification, informing of quality improvement efforts, and creation of criteria for provider incentive payments. The purpose of this article is to explain why health care quality measures are established, what agencies oversee the development of meaningful pediatric quality measures, and how these measures inform and improve the care provided by pediatric-focused advanced practice registered nurses.

The Use of Social Media in Interprofessional Education: Systematic Review.

Background: The implementation of interprofessional education (IPE) activities into health care education is a challenge for many training programs owing to time and location constraints of both faculty and learners. The integration of social media into these IPE activities may provide a solution to these problems.

Objective: This review of the published literature aims to identify health care IPE activities using social media.

Health policy engagement among graduate nursing students in the United States.

Aim: The aim was to understand how health policy education is currently being delivered in the United States' graduate nursing programs.

Methods: This exploratory cross-sectional design used an anonymous online survey to target graduate nursing students attending American Association of College of Nursing (AACN) member institutions.

Results: Over 75% of the sample (n = 140) reported taking a dedicated health policy course and 71.

Implementation of childhood obesity identification and prevention strategies in primary care: A quality improvement project.

The high incidence and prevalence of childhood obesity, coupled with significant morbidity and financial burden, clearly suggest the need for identification and implementation of effective pediatric obesity prevention strategies in primary care. A solution to this problem includes evidence based clinical guidelines that provide concise, culturally appropriate information on the identification and prevention of childhood obesity in primary care settings. The objective of this quality improvement project was to implement childhood obesity identification and prevention guidelines from evidence-based recommendations into practice.