Assessment 04 –
Informatics and Nursing-Sensitive Quality Indicators
For this assessment, you will prepare an 2 – 4 pages
for new nurses on the importance of nursing-sensitive quality indicators.
Before you complete the detailed instructions in the courseroom, first review the Nursing-Sensitive Quality Indicators below and select the one you’re most interested in. Nursing-Sensitive Quality Indicators reflect the structure, process, and patient outcomes of nursing care.
Nursing-Sensitive Quality Indicators are developed by identifying potential indicators that reflect nursing care and are not represented by current indicators, performing a literature review, and determining the validity of the potential indicator in nursing practice.
After you select one of the Nursing-Sensitive Quality Indicators below, return to the courseroom
to review the detailed instructions and complete your assessment.
• Patient Volume and Flow – Structure.
• Patient Contacts – Structure.
• Nursing Care Hours Per Patient Day – Structure.
• Skill Mix – Structure.
• Hospital-Acquired Pressure Ulcers – Outcome.
Next, imagine you are a member of a Quality Improvement Council at any type of health care system, whether acute, ambulatory, home health, managed care, et cetera. Your Council has identified that newly hired nurses would benefit from comprehensive training on the importance of nursing-sensitive quality indicators. The Council would like the training to address how this information is collected and disseminated across the organization. It would also like the training to describe the role nurses have in accurate reporting and high-quality results.
The Council indicates a recording is preferable to a written fact sheet due to the popularity of audio blogs. In this way, new hires can listen to the tutorial on their own time using their phone or other device.
As a result of this need, you offer to create an audio tutorial orienting new hires to these topics. You know that you will need a script to guide your audio recording. You also plan to incorporate into your script the insights you learned from conducting an interview with an authority on quality monitoring and the use of technology to collect and report quality indicator data.
You determine that you will cover the following topics in your paper :
Introduction: Nursing-Sensitive Quality Indicator
- What is the National Database of Nursing-Sensitive Quality Indicators?
- What are nursing-sensitive quality indicators?
- Which particular quality indicator did you select to address in your tutorial?
- Why is this quality indicator important to monitor?
- Be sure to address the impact of this indicator on the quality of care and patient safety.
- Why do new nurses need to be familiar with this particular quality indicator when providing patient care?
Collection and Distribution of Quality Indicator Data
- According to your interview and other resources, how does your organization collect data on this quality indicator?
- How does the organization disseminate aggregate data?
- What role do nurses play in supporting accurate reporting and high-quality results?
- As an example, consider the importance of accurately entering data regarding nursing interventions.
