Nursing Alliance for Quality Care

The Nursing Alliance for Quality Care (NAQC) is a bold partnership among the nation’s leading nursing organizations to: Advance the highest quality, safety, and value of consumer-centered health care for all individuals— patients, their families, and their communities.

Purpose

To achieve this aim, NAQC will work to ensure that:

• Patients receive the right care at the right time by the right professional.
• Nurses actively advocate and are accountable for consumer-centered, high quality health care.
• Policymakers recognize the contributions of nurses in advancing consumer-centered, high quality health care.

NAQC Goals

Consumer-Centered Health Care - Establish nursing relevant consumer-centered health care quality and safety goals to achieve care that is safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable.

Performance Measurement and Public Reporting -Strengthen the visibility of nursing in transparency and accountability activities.

Advocacy -Serve as a resource to partners and stimulate policy reform that reflects evidence-based nursing practice and advance consumer-centered, high quality health care.

Leadership - Build nursing’s capacity to serve in leadership roles that advance consumer-centered, high quality health care.