Assessing nursing quality and patient safety
Nurse Leader Insider, July 16, 2015
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to Nurse Leader Insider!
Interest in using a variety of nursing engagement surveys as a reportable quality indicator is growing.
This article, written by Cheryl Clark, appears in the June 2015 issues of HealthLeaders magazine.
Do your hospital's nurses feel empowered? Are nurses' relationships with physicians strong enough that nurses can call out errors or ask questions without fear? Do they think their hospital hires enough nurses with appropriate skills and provides enough resources to provide safe and timely care? Are nurses involved in making policy?
Read the rest of the post on our blog here.
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to Nurse Leader Insider!
Related Products
-
Strategies for Nurse Managers
Strategies for Nurse Managers is a 12-page monthly how-to newsletter that was created exclusively to help you save time...
-
Nurse Leader Insider
Our informative free e-mail newsletter for nursing professionals delivers helpful tips and advice each week!
-
Nursing Orientation Program Builder:
This binder and CD-ROM walk you through each step of a well-run orientation program so you can incorporate field-tested...
-
HealthLeaders Media Nursing Leaders
HealthLeaders Media Nursing Leaders offers concise updates on nursing leadership headlines of the week from top news...
-
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
-
- CMS seeks comment on quality measures
- Don't forget the three checks in medication administration
- Note similarities and differences between HCPCS, CPT® codes
- What does case-mix index mean to you?
- Q&A: Primary, principal, and secondary diagnoses
- Practice the six rights of medication administration
- Complications from immobility by body system
- OB services: Coding inside and outside of the package
- Prevent dehydration with nursing interventions
- Understanding and coding for critical care services
- E-mailed
-
- Five ways to safeguard your patients' valuables
- Six ways to critique evidence-based practice articles
- Security checkpoint: Will metal detectors really make a big difference
- Q&As about PECOS and Physicians
- Q&A: Sequencing a diagnosis when the phrase 'versus' is used
- Number of nurse practitioners increases by nearly 100,000 in seven years
- Note from the instructor: Billing Outpatient Laboratory Services - TOB 131 vs. TOB 141
- Know the JCAHO's ongoing records review requirements
- Coding, billing, and documentation tips for teaching physicians, interns, residents, and students
- Clear up confusion surrounding observation services
- Searched
