quality assurance in healthcare systems

Assignment 2: Quality Assurance Implementation Concerns

Your management staff needs a better understanding of factors that would inhibit implementation of a Quality Assurance program at their hospital.

Identify and describe at least 10 factors that could inhibit implementation of a quality assurance (QA) program at the hospital.

Identify the characteristics, defense mechanisms, and behaviors that the hospital may observe when implementing a new QA process.

Provide at least three suggestions of how the hospital can minimize the resistance to change in their organization.

Write a two- to three-page executive summary of your findings to the management staff using APA formatting styles. Submit the summary to the M4: Assignment 2 Dropbox by Wednesday, July 8, 2015.