Ask the expert: Monitoring quality indicators
HCPro's Weekly Update on the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®*, April 1, 2008
This week, a reader asks who should monitor nurse-sensitive quality indicators. Read the response from our advisor Dorothy Anne Garman, RN, MSN, nursing consultant in Newport, RI.
Q: Who should monitor nurse-sensitive quality indicators?
A: It is essential for nursing leadership to ensure there is development of ongoing monitoring indicators and priority improvement indicators useful for their purposes.
In many organizations this is the responsibility of the nursing quality council. Usually it is this council that determines the performance improvement priorities for the nursing division and identifies divisional and unit-specific indicators to be measured. It is also at this level that data related to unit-specific nurse-sensitive indicator quality data is reviewed and analyzed. A responsibility of this committee is to make certain that the data and recommendations for improvement are reported upward to the organization's performance improvement council and downward to the quality council at the unit level.
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