The process of clinical audit and quality improvement of nursing clinical services

Performance improvement in organizations requires a good model for the performance evaluation, because of realization goals in the absence of a comprehensive model for assessing and reviewing plans is not possible and organizations cannot regardless of the results of operations, effective management of their programs don’t apply. Among the models that are currently in clinical audit and clinical governance model can be cited. This article aims to identify the impact of the clinical audit and its relationship to quality of care and improve clinical effectiveness in nursing.
Material& This study is a review article based on data collected from regular search internet resources in pubmed and google and SID Sites , library studies and scientific articles have been published between 2000 and 2012 have been used.
The findings suggest that the clinical audit is an cyclical process, which is performed in several steps to improve the quality of services focuses on a different area and in addition to, the clinical audit can be a tool to measure and evaluate the quality of care, can be used as a training tool to develop new ideas about care and learning experiences are also discussed.
Due to this topic, the clinical audit process impressive effect on quality of clinical services, it seems that this process can help to improve the services provided by nurses in clinical environment.