Who controls nursing?

DQ1 Who controls nursing? (Consider nursing practice on all levels in your discussion.).

DQ2 Below are the hyperlinks to the websites where our information (quality/HCAHPS) can be accessed by the public:

The Joint Commission Quality Check:

http://www.qualitycheck.org/consumer/searchQCR.aspx (Links to an external site.)

US News:

http://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals/area (Links to an external site.)

US Department of HHS (Hospital Compare):

http://hospitalcompare.hhs.gov/ (Links to an external site.)

National Patient Safety Goals

jointcommission.org (Links to an external site.)

These topics are hot topics for healthcare and CMS  will deduct reimbursements on quality scores, starting 2013. They are monitoring these scores now to see what percentage they will be deducting. We are finding in the hospitals across the country that nurses may be unclear on these and they have been around for years.

Care Measures (AMI, CHF, PNU, and SCIP).

Patient Safety Goals

Fall Preventions

HCAHPS-(Hospital Consumer Assessment of Health Plans) Patient satisfaction scores

Go to these links and compare your facility to another hospital in your area. As a change agent pick one of the topics and discuss how you can implement change in your department to bring your quality scores up. Post your hospital scores in your presentation.