Standard of Professional Performance
Standards of Practice
Social Policy Statement
Code of Ethics
NDNQI
100
The registered Nurse attainsknowledge and competence that reflect current nursing practice
What is Education?
100
The Registered Nurse collects comprehensive data pertinent to the healthcare consumer's health and/or the situation
What is Assessment
100
the collective professional activities of nurses that are characterized by the interrelations of human responses, theory application, nursing actions, and outcomes.
What is Nursing Practice
100
An attempt by a member or a former member of an organization to issue a warning to the public about a serious wrongdoing or danger created or concealed by an organization.
What is Whistleblowing?
100
Used by 2,000 hospitals nationwide, it is the largest provider of unit-level performance data to hospitals.
What is NDNQI?
200
The registered nurse integrates evidence and research findings into practice
What is Evidence-based Practice?
200
the registered nurse employs strategies to promote health and a safe environment
What is Health teaching and Health promotion
200
A critical thinking model comprising the integration of singular, concurrent actions of these six components: assessment, diagnosis, identification of outcomes, planning, implementation, and evaluation.
What is Nursing Process?
200
compassion; taking positive action to help others; desire to do good; core principle of our patient advocacy.
What is Beneficence?
200
Fall/Injury Fall Rates Hospital-/Unit-Acquired Pressure Ulcer Rates Nursing Hours per Patient Day Nursing Skill Mix Physical Restraint Prevalence Peripheral IV Infiltration Rate RN Education/Certification Pain Assessment/Intervention/Reassessment Cycles Completed Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia Rate Central Line–Associated Bloodstream Infection Rate Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection Rate Nurse Turnover Rate
What are Quality Measures reported at the unit level?
300
the registered nurse works with the healthcare consumer, family, and others in the conduct of nursing practice
What is Collaboration?
300
The registered nurse analyzes the assessment data to determine the issues
What is diagnosis?
300
A set of interrelated concepts, definitions, or propositions used to systematically describe, explain, predict, or control human responses or phenomena of interest to nurses
What is Nursing Theory?
300
This principle requires loyalty, fairness, truthfulness, advocacy, and dedication to our patients. It involves an agreement to keep our promises.
What is Fidelity?
300
Tool used to help your hospital identify needs of the RN staff, improve their work environment and enhance retention and recruitment
What is the NDNQI RN survey?
400
the registered nurse contributes to the improvement of practice
What is Quality of practice
400
Utilization of, coordination of care and HealthTeaching and Health Promotion
What is Implementation?
400
An expected and measureable level of nursing performance that integrates knowledge, skills, abilities, and judgment that is based on established scientific knowledge and expectations for nursing practice.
What is Competency?
400
Derived from the work of John Rawls, this principle refers to an equal and fair distribution of resources, based on analysis of benefits and burdens of decision.
What is Justice?
400
For more than 25 years, our mission has been to support your pursuit of high-quality, efficient care. As the complexity of health care escalates, the need to capture the voice of each patient and interpret these insights into actionable improvement plans is greater than ever. Also the new owner of NDNQI.
What is Press-Ganey?
500
the registered nurse provides services that are safe, effective, and finacnially responsible.
What is Resource Utilization?
500
the registered nurse prescribes strategies and alternatives to attain expected outcomes, while reviewing collected data and outcome identification.
What is Planning?
500
Tha capacity of a nurse to determine his/her own action through independent choice, including demonstration of competence, within the full scope of nursing practice.
What is Autonomy?
500
Healthcare professionals make decisions about diagnosis, therapy, and prognosis for the patient. Based upon the health care professional’s belief about what is in the best interest of the patient, he/she chooses to reveal or withhold patient information in these three important arenas. This principle is heavily laden as an application of power over the patient.
What is Paternalism?
500
Free e-learning for all to view on the NDNQI website, and you can earn 1.5CE hours.
What is Pressure Ulcer Training?