Nursing Sensitive Indicators and Pain Management Essay
I’m working on a nursing discussion question and need support to help me learn.
1) View https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot_-5vZV6lI (video, 3 min 43 sec).
2) While there are many, many different indicators of quality in our workplaces, for this assignment we will look at ones that are nurse sensitive. Review the list of nurse-sensitive quality indicators from the NDNQI found in the attached ANA article (pdf).
3) For the NURSING HOURS PER PATIENT DAY for RN’s/LPN’s/UAP/s:
a. How is this indicator measured and evaluated?
b. How is it tracked and how often?
c. What is the nurse’s role (floor and management)?
Write at the least one very well developed paragraph to explain the answers to the questions listed above.
4) Now keeping the six aims of the Institute of Medicine in mind: patient-centered care, patient safety, timeliness or responsive care, efficient care, effective care, and equitable care also found at http://pedsccm.org/FILE-CABINET/pccm/slonim-IOM_quality.pdf and attached (and using the terminology appropriately), go through each aim while explaining how nursing (floor and/or management) could go about employing evidence-based practices that will lead to better evaluation outcomes for that particular indicator. List specific interventions/best practices and how your findings could be applied by the nurse. This is where your references come in handy. You may present this in paragraph form, a chart, or bullets.
