The Quality Council monitors the appropriateness and effectiveness of the care provided by the nursing staff, while assessing and ensuring compliance with established standards of care and practice.

Quality Council activities include:

• Annually evaluating, revising, and approving the Nursing Quality Improvement Plan for nursing care 
• Integrating the nursing quality improvement process with the hospital plan to detect trends and patterns of performance that affect more than one department or service 
• Monitoring and ensuring compliance with established standards of the Practice, Quality, Leadership, and Professional Development Councils 
• Ensuring compliance with reporting schedule for Performance Improvement 
• Endorsing and monitoring unit specific performance improvement activities 
• Collaborating with other disciplines to monitor and evaluate compliance to standards and making recommendations for continuous quality improvement 
• Monitoring and ensuring compliance with established state, federal and regulatory standards 
• Evaluating outcomes of any work redesign initiatives 
• Representing the nursing perspective in ethical/legal issues within WFUBMC