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Hello, my name is Alex, today I welcome you all to my presentation about nursing-sensitive quality indicators and how technology can help us collect data and report. The session is organized based on an interview with the director of the quality control department. The topic of the conversation was the prevalence of pressure ulcers and the collection and reporting of data. This presentation is based on the same topic. Before I discuss pressure ulcers and how their prevalence is a quality indicator for nursing practice, I would like you to understand the purpose of establishing quality indicators and their importance.
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Date
Hello, my name is Alex, today I welcome you all to my presentation about nursing-sensitive quality indicators and how technology can help us collect data and report. The session is organized based on an interview with the director of the quality control department. The topic of the conversation was the prevalence of pressure ulcers and the collection and reporting of data. This presentation is based on the same topic. Before I discuss pressure ulcers and how their prevalence is a quality indicator for nursing practice, I would like you to understand the purpose of establishing quality indicators and their importance.
The American Nursing Association developed the National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI) in 1998, to collect data on specific quality indicators to evaluate and monitor nursing care. These indicators are subdivided into three categories, a) structural indicators, b) process indicators and c) outcomes indicators. This database provides quarterly and yearly reports on various indicators which are helpful for healthcare organizations to improve their nursing practices and care (Barchielli et al., 2022).
The goal of NDNQI is to bring together interprofessional teams to work to achieve positive outcomes for patients by improving the quality of care. These measures also indicate the importance of nurses and nursing practices for patients’ well-being and positive healthcare results. Thus, they are highly important for you people as new nurses to understand your role in patients’ lives and this will help you improve your practices in clinical settings.
Quality Indicator – Prevalence of Pressure Ulcers in Adult Patients
As mentioned earlier, out of several quality indicators, today’s discussion is about pressure ulcers and how incidences of pressure ulcers are related to poor nursing care. Furthermore, we will discuss the importance of improving nursing care for the prevention of these ulcers. Pressure ulcers are confined skin and tissue injuries that are usually caused by friction or pressure that occurs between an object and the surface of the skin. Globally, the progression and deaths related to pressure ulcers have increased by 60% in elderly patients.
A report developed in an ulcer summit revealed that around 60,000 people die due to complicated pressure ulcers. Moreover, approximately 700,000 patients develop pressure ulcers and most of them occur due to inadequate care (Tesfa Mengist et al., 2022). Some of the causative factors for pressure injuries are older age, bladder incontinence, a bedridden state, lack of proper nutrition and water intake, neurological deficiency, pressure on the skin due to medical devices, and multiple secondary diagnoses. As frontline care staff, nurses are primarily responsible healthcare providers with the major responsibility to prevent pressure ulcers by enhancing their knowledge and practices.
Caring for patients’ pressure areas is an imperative element of nursing practices. The nurses must maintain patients’ skin integrity and prevent complications. This is done by early recognition of high-risk patients and providing special attention to them for which nurses must be knowledgeable and have an insight into their poor practices (Ebi et al., 2019). These positive outcomes are better achieved when multidisciplinary teams work together.
Interdisciplinary Teams’ Role in Collecting and Reporting Data
Healthcare facilities function with the help of interdisciplinary teams; thus, data collection and establishing an organizational report on quality indicators also require a team of individuals from various professions. Nurses play an important role in this regard. The process of data collection for pressure ulcers (PU) and the knowledge of nurses related to PU include nurses, nurse instructors, the quality control department, the IT department, and administrators if the incidences are high and require hospital management to be involved.
To collect effective data two things are required; a) a pressure ulcer reporting system and b) a questionnaire for nurses. Some of the hospitals in the US have this in-built software called Medicare Patient Safety Monitoring System (MPSMS), which is developed for various patient safety indicators (Smith et al., 2018). The purpose of this software is to report every new hospital-acquired incidence of PU or any old pressure ulcers which get comp
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