Inside best practice: Nurse-sensitive indicators
HCPro's Weekly Update on the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®*, February 1, 2010
Organizations should be very clear about the quality improvement (QI) issues bedside nurses need to be concerned with, which are nurse-sensitive indicators. Nurses cannot affect system changes that involve multiple disciplines, but they can affect nurse-sensitive indicators.
Nurse managers’ roles are to follow the institutional and departmental QI/PI program. Data should be collected by experts at the departmental or institutional level. Some examples of data that can be collected are:
- Quarterly skin pressure ulcer data by experts trained in skin evaluation
- Fall data collected at the unit level by departmental experts who have access to incident reports
- Pain data by pain resource nurses at the department level trained to audit pain reports
- Infection surveillance by infection control specialists
Source: This excerpt is from the January issue of HCPro’s Advisor to the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®. Don’t have a subscription? Take a look at the benefits of becoming a member of HCPro’s Resource Center for the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®.
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