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# Care management

Running a unit, the PDCA cycle, quality indicators, Colombia's quality system, patient assignment and leadership.

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## Safe practice

- [**Assigning patients and setting priorities across several patients** With several patients, the nurse decides who to see first using airway, breathing and…](https://durgical.com/en/nursing/assigning-patients-and-setting-priorities-across-several-patients/)
- [**Managing supplies, equipment and technology on a nursing unit** Good resource management means the right supplies and working equipment are ready when needed…](https://durgical.com/en/nursing/managing-supplies-equipment-and-technology-on-a-nursing-unit/)
- [**Pharmacovigilance and technovigilance: what nurses report** Nurses report suspected problems with medicines (pharmacovigilance) and with medical devices…](https://durgical.com/en/nursing/pharmacovigilance-and-technovigilance-what-nurses-report/)
- [**The PDCA (PHVA) cycle in nursing services** PDCA (Plan, Do, Check, Act) is a repeating cycle for testing a small change, measuring its…](https://durgical.com/en/nursing/the-pdca-cycle-in-nursing-services/)

## Law

- [**Colombia's mandatory health-care quality system: habilitación, auditoría and acreditación** The SOGCS is Colombia's set of rules that makes providers meet minimum standards, audit their…](https://durgical.com/en/nursing/colombia-s-mandatory-health-care-quality-system-habilitacion-auditoria-and-acred/)

## Fundamental

- [**Managing nursing care: planning, organising, directing and controlling a unit** Care management is how a nurse plans, organises, leads and checks the work of a unit so that…](https://durgical.com/en/nursing/managing-nursing-care-planning-organising-directing-and-controlling-a-unit/)
- [**Nursing leadership styles and conflict management** Leadership is how a nurse guides and motivates a team; conflict management is choosing the right…](https://durgical.com/en/nursing/nursing-leadership-styles-and-conflict-management/)
- [**Quality of nursing care: indicators and how they are measured** A quality indicator is a number, built the same way every time, that shows how often something…](https://durgical.com/en/nursing/quality-of-nursing-care-indicators-and-how-they-are-measured/)

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Educational content for students; it does not replace your institution's protocols, supervised clinical training or a prescriber's order. Dose-calculation examples use made-up numbers: they are educational, not a clinical order.

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