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Transforming nursing data into quality care : profiles of quality improvement in U.S. healthcare facilities / Isis Montalvo and Nancy Dunton, editors.
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View onlineHolman Biotech Commons RT85.5 .T73 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- ANA Publication.
- [ANA Publication]
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nursing--United States--Quality control.
- Nursing.
- Hospitals--United States--Quality control.
- Hospitals.
- Nursing Process.
- Quality control.
- United States.
- Quality Indicators, Health Care.
- Health Facilities.
- Quality Assurance, Health Care--standards.
- Medical Subjects:
- Nursing Process.
- United States.
- Quality Indicators, Health Care.
- Health Facilities.
- Quality Assurance, Health Care--standards.
- Physical Description:
- v, 179 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Silver Spring, Md. : Nursesbooks.org, American Nurses Association, 2007.
- Contents:
- Introduction: achieving sustained healthcare improvements through the use of nursing quality indicators
- Physical/sexual assault
- NDNQI assault data on unit dashboards results in improved management of aggressive behavior
- Maintaining staff safety while reducing the use of seclusion and restraints
- Patient falls
- National injury fall rate benchmarks motivate cycles of nursing process improvement
- NDNQI data provide goals for fall prevention action plans
- NDNQI falls data support decision making by nursing leadership councils on equipment and staff education
- Using NDNQI data to monitor the success of a unit-based falls prevention pilot program
- Pressure ulcer prevalence
- Graphing NDNQI trend data on the intranet supports zero tolerance of hospital acquired pressure ulcers
- Sharing NDNQI data with bedside nurses leads to improved skin integrity
- Quality report cards inform staff nurses about pressure ulcer rates and document success of quality improvement initiatives
- NDNQI data-stimulated practice improvements plans to reduce pressure ulcers
- Pain assessment/intervention/reassessment cycle
- Rapid cycle performance teams use NDNQI data in balanced score card to improve pain management in children
- RN satisfaction
- Using results from the NDNQI RN satisfaction survey to improve satisfaction and patient outcomes
- Job enjoyment as an indicator of successful shared governance
- Enhancing professional work environment results in higher RN job satisfaction
- Appendix A. NDNQI indicators
- Appendix B. National quality forum indicators.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781558102491
- 1558102493
- OCLC:
- 78893153
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