Informatics and Nursing Sensitive Quality Indicators

 You delivered a nice audio tutorial to accurately report quality data in a timely fashion. Your tutorial on nursing education was interesting but did not really answer the criteria of the assessment. See my comments below for details.

The NDNQI of registered nurses� education is a very hard indicator to work with for this assessment. I strongly suggest that you take a look at the following topics and select one that is easier to research for this assessment.

· Quality measures.

· Patient falls.

· Patient falls with injury.

· Pressure ulcer prevalence.

· Health care-associated infections.

· Catheter-associated urinary tract infection.

· Central line catheter associated blood stream infection.

· Ventilator-associated pneumonia.

· Ventilator- associated events.

· Psychiatric physical/sexual assault rate.

· Restraint prevalence.

· Pediatric peripheral intravenous infiltration rate.

· Pediatric pain assessment, intervention, reassessment (air) cycle.

· Falls in ambulatory settings.

· Pressure ulcer incidence rates from electronic health records.

· Hospital readmission rates.

· RN satisfaction survey options.

· Job satisfaction scales.

· Job satisfaction scales â�� short form.

· Practice environment scale.

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The choice is, of course, yours but the above indicators are easier to discuss in terms of data collection and how they can be used to establish evidence-based guidelines for practice.

 If you choose to resubmit, please resubmit your speaker notes with your revised audio presentation and HIGHLIGHT the revisions in the speaker notes.

It was a pleasure having you in this course. Please complete the end of course survey when you get it.

 Best,

Prof. Bowers

 

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COMPETENCY 1

Describe nurses' and the interdisciplinary team's role in informatics with a focus on electronic health information and patient care technology to support decision making.

CRITERION

Describe the interdisciplinary team�s role in collecting and reporting quality indicator data to enhance patient safety, patient care outcomes, and organizational performance reports.

Your result: Basic

Distinguished

Describes in a professional manner the interdisciplinary team�s role in collecting and reporting quality indicator data to enhance patient safety, patient care outcomes, and organizational performance reports. Offers valuable insight into the impact of the interdisciplinary team on data collection.

Proficient

Describes the interdisciplinary team�s role in collecting and reporting quality indicator data to enhance patient safety, patient care outcomes, and organizational performance reports.

Basic

Begins to identify but does not describe the interdisciplinary team�s role in collecting and reporting quality indicator data.

Non-Performance

Does not describe the interdisciplinary team�s role in collecting and reporting quality indicator data to enhance patient safety, patient care outcomes, and organizational performance reports.

Faculty Comments:

I see that you identified the interdisciplinary teamâ��s role in collecting and reporting quality indicator data very vaguely. Your description of the collection of data itself is very confusing to your reader. How is data related to nursing education collected in your institution? Who collects it? Perhaps it is Human Resources or nursing administration. This needs to be clarified. 

COMPETENCY 2

Evaluate the impact of patient care technologies on desired outcomes.

CRITERION

Explain how a health care organization uses nursing-sensitive quality indicators to enhance patient safety, patient care outcomes, and organizational performance reports.

Your result: Basic

Distinguished

Provides a comprehensive, professional, and academic explanation for how a health care organization uses nursing-sensitive quality indicators to enhance patient safety, patient care outcomes, and organizational performance reports.

Proficient

Explains how a health care organization uses nursing-sensitive quality indicators to enhance patient safety, patient care outcomes, and organizational performance reports.

Basic

Attempts to explain how a health care organization uses nursing-sensitive quality indicators to enhance patient safety, patient care outcomes, and organizational performance reports.

Non-Performance

Does not explain how a health care organization uses nursing-sensitive quality indicators to enhance patient safety, patient care outcomes, and organizational performance reports.

Faculty Comments:

I did not find a full enough description of how a health care organization uses nursing sensitive quality indicators to enhance patient safety, patient care outcomes, and organizational performance reports. What does the literature say? How is educational level used in your institution to determine nursing roles? For example, do nurses in certain areas need to hold a specific level of education?  How does this level of education in various positions enhance patient safety and outcomes?

COMPETENCY 3

Recommend the use of a technology to enhance quality and safety standards for patients.

CRITERION

Justify how a nursing-sensitive quality indicator establishes evidence-based practice guidelines for nurses to follow when using patient care technologies to enhance patient safety, satisfaction, and outcomes.

Your result: Non-Performance

Distinguished

Provides a comprehensive and scholarly justification for how a nursing-sensitive quality indicator establishes evidence-based practice guidelines for nurses to follow when using patient care technologies to enhance patient safety, satisfaction, and outcomes.

Proficient

Justifies how a nursing-sensitive quality indicator establishes evidence-based practice guidelines for nurses to follow when using patient care technologies to enhance patient safety, satisfaction, and outcomes.

Basic

Describes but does not justify how a nursing-sensitive quality indicator establishes evidence-based practice guidelines for nurses to follow when using patient care technologies to enhance patient safety, satisfaction, and outcomes.

Non-Performance

Does not justify how a nursing-sensitive quality indicator establishes evidence-based practice guidelines for nurses to follow when using patient care technologies to enhance patient safety, satisfaction, and outcomes.

Faculty Comments:

I noticed that you did not justify how a nursing-sensitive quality indicator establishes evidence-based practice guidelines of nurses to follow when using patient care technologies to enhance patient safety, satisfaction, and outcomes. To improve your score, please refer to the assessment so that all of the criteria are addressed. 

COMPETENCY 4

Apply professional, scholarly communication to facilitate use of health information and patient care technologies.

CRITERION

Deliver a professional, effective audio tutorial on a selected quality indicator that engages new nurses and motivates them to accurately report quality data in a timely fashion.

Your result: Proficient

Distinguished

Delivers a polished, professional, and effective audio or video tutorial along with speaker notes on a selected quality indicator that engages new nurses and motivates them to accurately report quality data in a timely fashion. Audio or video presentation is appropriate for the audience. Submission includes a reference list with at least three scholarly references.

Proficient

Delivers a professional and effective audio or video tutorial along with speaker notes on a selected quality indicator that engages new nurses and motivates them to accurately report quality data in a timely fashion. Submission includes a reference list with at least three scholarly references.

Basic

Provides a script or speaker's notes of a tutorial without audio or video on a selected quality indicator, or the tutorial lacks purpose, coherence, or focus or has technical issues that distract from the presentation.

Non-Performance

Does not deliver an audio or a video tutorial with a script or speaker's notes on a selected quality indicator that engages new nurses and motivates them to accurately report quality data in a timely fashion.

Faculty Comments:

Your presentation is appropriate for the audience. I do suggest that you rehearse your presentation several times prior to recording and submitting it to give your presentation a smoother flow.

CRITERION

Follow APA style and formatting guidelines for citations and references.

Your result: Basic

Distinguished

Follows APA style and formatting guidelines for citations and references with flawless precision and accuracy.

Proficient

Follows APA style and formatting guidelines for citations and references. Academic citations and references are largely error-free.

Basic

Partially follows APA style and formatting guidelines for citations and references.

Non-Performance

Does not follow APA style and formatting guidelines for citations and references.

Faculty Comments: