Expert Panel on Quality Health Care

The Expert Panel on Quality Health Care motivates progress among policy leaders and influences at the international, national and state levels to articulate and promote nursing's contributions to defining and measuring elements of quality health care, while also providing new models of high quality, safe and efficacious health care services.

Inaugural Year: 1999

Chair:
Ronda Hughes, PhD, MHS, RN, FAAN
Senior Director, Professional Practice
American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL)

Vice Chair:
Marjorie M. Godfrey, PhD, MS, BSN, FAAN
Research Professor, Department of Nursing, University of New Hampshire
Executive Director of the Institute for Excellence in Health and Social Systems

Board Liaison: Ching-Min Chen

Staff Liaison: Justin Cowling

Previous Chairs: AkkeNeel Talsma (2020-2022), Eileen Lake (2019-2020), Marianne Baernholdt (2018-2019), Diane Boyle (2017-2018), Amy Barton (2016-2017), Kathleen White (2015-2016), Dori Sullivan (2014-2015), Bonnie Jennings (2002-2007), Gerri Lamb (1999), Pamela Mitchell (1999) 

Summary:
The members of the Quality Health Care Expert Panel are experts in quality health care policy, research, measurement, and practice and Academy members interested in these topics. The mission of the panel is to influence national policy and research relevant to achieving quality healthcare for Americans. The Expert Panel has focused on advancing research and performance measures that reflect nursing’s contributions to health care quality and safety outcomes.

Publications:

• Scoping review: Positive and negative impact of technology on clinicians (February 2023)
• Consensus Statement: Consensus statement on leveraging equity in policy to improve recognition and treatment of mental health, substance use disorders, and nurse suicide (February 2023)
• Policy Dialogue: Optimizing the Nursing Workforce: Exploring Innovative Reforms and Policy Implications (Hosted in May 2022)
  Hosted by the Building Health Care System Excellence Expert Panel in collaboration with the Expert Panels on Quality Health Care and Acute and Critical Care, this dialogue focused on current workforce shortages, projected workforce demands, and models of care that optimize nurses’ expertise to enhance care delivery.
• Practice Guidelines: International consensus-based policy recommendations to advance universal palliative care access (October 2021)
• Consensus Statement: Nursing's Roles in Ensuring Universal Palliative Care Access (October 2021)
• Position statement: Improving the care and health of populations through optimal use of clinical nurse specialists (July 2020)
• Policy Brief: Improve nurses’ well-being and joy in work: Implement true interprofessional teams and address electronic health record usability issues (November-December 2019)
• Policy Brief: Call for action:Nurses must play a critical role to enhance health literacy. (January 2018)
• Policy Brief: Action brief: Patient engagement and activation: A health reform imperative and improvement opportunity for nursing. (January 2013)
• Policy Brief: Performance measurement—A strategic imperative and a call to action. (November 2011) 

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