Reflects the structure, process and outcomes of nursing care
What are nursing sensitive indicators?
100
Each unit completes this quarterly
What is the NSI action plan?
100
These are performed on all the units and help to inform staff of patient care issues on the unit
What are huddles?
100
Use of data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and use improvement methods to design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of health care systems
What is quality improvement?
100
Nurse sensitive indicator unit dashboards results can be found here
What is the nursing intranet and posted on nursing units?
200
They improve if there is a greater quantity or quality of nursing care
What are nurse sensitive outcomes?
200
Choice of action plan for each unit is based on this
What is quarterly unit data that is above the mean?
200
We always attempt alternatives before resorting to this
What are restraints?
200
Process of comparing one's processes and performance metrics to industry bests
What is benchmarking
200
New unit data dashboards are posted
What is Monthly?
300
They are community acquired, hospital acquired or unit acquired
What are pressure ulcers?
300
Potential contributing factors on the action plan
What are staff related, equipment related and patient related?
300
Review the need for continued use of this daily
What are central venous catheters/ Foley catheters
300
Reports from this organization assist in quality improvement efforts
What is the NDNQI?
300
Nurse sensitive indicator dashboards provide this
What is feedback about unit performance over time?
400
Five nursing sensitive indicators for acute care
What is pressure ulcers, restraints, Clabsi, Cauti and falls
400
These are best practices used to improve outcomes
What are action items?
400
Patients on protocol do not require an MD order to discontinue
What is a Foley catheter?
400
A snapshot of how many pateints have a pressure ulcer at a point in time
What is a point prevalence study?
400
Nursing sensitive indicator dashboard identifies this
What is opportunities for improvement?
500
the RN may enter a D/C order per protocol- no new order is required
What is the Foley protocol?
500
Use of the nurse sensitive indicator action plan
What will improve patient outcomes?
500
On admission all patients should be assessed for this
What is a pressure ulcer/ the braden score/ Falls/ MRSA?
500
Data is reported as a rate not a raw number
What is a rate is better for comparison?
500
Jefferson compares itself to like units in which NDNQI group