Tqm In Nursing Education

The educational institutions of today are concerned with quality. With the emergence of competition among universities, the identification of the academic institutions that have a high level of quality has become a crucial issue. For this reason, the researcher declared that today, quality is the single most important issue in education. (1) The nursing education is very important due to close ties with people health and should lean toward quality improvement. Therefore, the quality of nursing program should be evaluated continuously by the local, national, and international evaluation systems. Nursing education had faced with some challenges, including the competency of graduated nurses and quality of nursing education. The main challenges

Application of TQM in universities is faced with many obstacles as insufficient incentives for teaching staff, academic incompetency of faculty members and lack of university facilities.(11) Other obstacles to TQM success include lack of consistent managers' and employees' commitment to and involvement in TQM implementation, poor leadership and management, lack of a quality-oriented culture, insufficient training, and inadequate resources.(12) In addition, higher education institutions face many pressures and challenges resulting from rapid expansion in student enrolments, shortage of funding, declining quality of graduates, and increasing competition between various public and private colleges and universities.(13) The realization of the importance of total quality management , quality assurance systems and accreditation will contribute to achieving the goals of universities as well as identifying strengths to promote and addressing the short

So, performance in terms of administrative processes, academy specialization, program facilities, equipment, supplies, techniques and technologies generally fails to meet the necessary accreditation standards. Likewise, the nursing program’s outputs will not meet the required level in terms of qualification and skills, leading to a performance gap in many fields as a result of not applying all principles of TQM and AAS. To date, and despite the fact that many Saudi universities and colleges began to adopt TQM principles and AAS in the last fifteen years or so, few researches have been conducted to study the influences of TQM and AAS application in nursing program. Therefore, this study aims to study the influences on Total Quality Management and Academic Accreditation Standards Application in Nursing Program in Saudi