Select a single nursing-sensitive quality indicator that you see as important to a selected type of health care
system.
Conduct independent research on the most current information about the selected nursing-sensitive quality
indicator.
Interview a professional colleague or contact who is familiar with quality monitoring and how technology can
help to collect and report quality indicator data. You do not need to submit the transcript of your conversation,
but do integrate what you learned from the interview into the assignment. Consider these questions for your
interview:
What is your experience with collecting data and entering it into a database?
What challenges have you experienced?
How does your organization share with the nursing staff and other members of the health care system the
quality improvement monitoring results?
What role do bedside nurses and other frontline staff have in entering the data? For example, do staff
members enter the information into an electronic medical record for extraction? Or do they enter it into another
system? How effective is this process?
For this assessment, imagine you are a member of a Quality Improvement Council at any type of health care
system. 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.
Introduction: Nursing-Sensitive Quality Indicator
What is the NDNQI®?
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 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.
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