Website spotlight: Hospitals with outstanding nursing quality share 4 key traits
Nurse Leader Weekly, February 7, 2011
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to Nurse Leader Weekly!
Rebecca Hendren, for HealthLeaders Media, February 1st, 2011
“Think globally, act locally” is a familiar idiom from the green movement, and it’s appropriate to apply when considering quality improvement initiatives at your healthcare organization.
Quality indicator dashboards for organizations are valuable benchmarking tools, but the interesting data analysis happens when you drill down to the unit level. You might discover that one unit has had fewer catheter-associated urinary tract infections than another unit with a similar patient population. Then it becomes a question of replicating success.
The American Nurses Association’s National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI) collects nursing-related performance data from more than 1,700 hospitals at the unit-level. The data allow organizations to compare themselves to other nursing units either in their region or on the other side of the country. They can use the results to set benchmarks on various aspects of nursing care, patient outcomes, patient safety, and nurse satisfaction.
Editor's note: Read the rest of this free article by visiting Hospitals with outstanding nursing quality share 4 key traits found in the Reading Room at www.StrategiesForNurseManagers.com.
*Do you need continuing education (CE) credits? Check out this month’s CE article, Evaluating outcomes demonstrates value of education or visit our archives and view a compilation of CE articles (marked with an asterisk).
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to Nurse Leader Weekly!
Related Products
-
Performance Improvement Basics, 2nd Edition
Whether your goal is to gather buy-in from facility leaders or to brush up on effective data collection and analysis...
-
Simplifying Nursing Documentation
Implement a "two-form" solution that will cut nursing documentation in half while fully complying with Joint Commission...
-
Lean Healthcare in Action: A Practical Guide to Streamlining Processes
Implement Lean principles to create better, more streamlined processes, and save money and time at your facility. Two Lean...
-
Lead! Becoming an Effective Coach and Mentor to Your Nursing Staff
This management resource for nurse leaders is packed with communication strategies and proven methods to help elevate the...
-
Quality Improvement for Nurse Managers:
This book and CD-ROM clearly outline a nurse leader's role in quality improvement and offer simple instructions to improve...
Most Popular
- Articles
-
- Featured blog post: Nurses face felony charges after reporting physician to the Texas Medical Board
- Q/A: Volume requirement for reporting hydration services
- Topic: CMS, OESS post new security compliance review information, checklist
- HIPAA Q&A: Answering service messages
- News and briefs: Oklahoma Osteopathic Association against residency bill change
- What does case-mix index mean to you?
- QA:Coding multiple initial infusions
- Catch up on what's new with injections and infusions
- Capturing all necessary codes for IUD insertion and removal can be challenging
- OB services: Coding inside and outside of the package
- E-mailed
-
- Featured blog post: Nurses face felony charges after reporting physician to the Texas Medical Board
- Q/A: Volume requirement for reporting hydration services
- Are your workforce members texting PHI?
- Avoid the trap of probable diagnoses
- Arkansas woman convicted for HIPAA violation
- Q&A: Coding 'aspiration without pneumonia'
- Q&A tackles coding questions about injections and infusions
- New conflicts of interest create new challenges
- Joint Commission Center announces handoff communication solutions
- Inside best practice: Reduce patient falls with a stoplight
- Searched