Select a single nursing-sensitive quality indicator that you see as important to a selected type of health care system. Choose from the following list:

Staffing measures.

• Nursing hours per patient day.

RN education?/certification.

• Skill mix.

Nurse turnover.

• Nursing care hours in emergency departments, perioperative units, and perinatal units.
• Skill mix in emergency departments, perioperative units, and perinatal units?.
• 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 – short form.
• Practice environment scale.
• Conduct independent research on the most current information about the selected nursing-sensitive quality indicator.
• Interview a professional colleague or contact who is familiar with quality monitoring and how technology can help to collect and report quality indicator data. You do not need to submit the transcript of your conversation, but do integrate what you learned from the interview into the audio tutorial. Consider these questions for your interview:
• What is your experience with collecting data and entering it into a database?

What challenges have you experienced?

• How does your organization share with the nursing staff and other members of the health care system the quality improvement monitoring results?
• What role do bedside nurses and other frontline staff have in entering the data? For example, do staff members enter the information into an electronic medical record for extraction? Or do they enter it into another system? How effective is this process
• Instructions
• For this assessment, imagine you are a member of a Quality Improvement Council at any type of health care system, whether acute, ambulatory, home health, managed care, et cetera. Your Council has identified that newly hired nurses would benefit from comprehensive training on the importance of nursing-sensitive quality indicators. The Council would like the training to address how this information is collected and disseminated across the organization. It would also like the training to describe the role nurses have in accurate reporting and high-quality results.
• Introduction: Nursing-Sensitive Quality Indicator

What is the National Database of Nursing-Sensitive Quality Indicators?

• What are nursing-sensitive quality indicators?
• Which particular quality indicator did you select to address in your tutorial?
• Why is this quality indicator important to monitor?
• Be sure to address the impact of this indicator on the quality of care and patient safety.

Why do new nurses need to be familiar with this particular quality indicator when providing patient care?

Collection and Distribution of Quality Indicator Data

According to your interview and other resources, how does your organization collect data on this quality indicator?

How does the organization disseminate aggregate data?

What role do nurses play in supporting accurate reporting and high-quality results?