nurs-fpx4040-assessment-04 Informatics and Nursing-Sensitive Quality Indicators
Prepare an 8–10 minute audio training tutorial (video is optional) for new nurses on the
importance of nursing-sensitive quality indicators.
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Introduction
Professional Context
The American Nursing Association (ANA) established the National
Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI®) in 1998 to track and
report on quality indicators heavily influenced by nursing action.
NDNQI® was established as a standardized approach to evaluating
nursing performance in relation to patient outcomes. It provides a
database and quality measurement program to track clinical performance
and to compare nursing quality measures against other hospital data at
the national, regional, and state levels. Nursing-sensitive quality
indicators help establish evidence-based practice guidelines in the
inpatient and outpatient settings to enhance quality care outcomes and
initiate quality improvement educational programs, outreach, and
protocol development.
The quality indicators the NDNQI® monitors are organized into three
categories: structure, process, and outcome. Theorist Avedis
Donabedian first identified these categories. Donabedian’s theory of
quality health care focused on the links between quality outcomes and
the structures and processes of care (Grove et al., 2018).
Nurses must be knowledgeable about the indicators their workplaces
monitor. Some nurses deliver direct patient care that leads to a
monitored outcome. Other nurses may be involved in data collection and
analysis. In addition, monitoring organizations, including managed care
entities, exist to gather data from individual organizations to analyze
overall industry quality. All of these roles are important to advance quality
and safety outcomes
Preparation
As you begin to prepare this assessment you are encouraged to
complete the Donabedian Quality Assessment Framework activity.
Quality health care delivery requires systematic action. Completion of
this will help you succeed with the assessment as you consider how the
triad of structure (such as the hospital, clinic, provider
qualifications/organizational characteristics) and process (such as the
delivery/coordination/education/protocols/practice style or standard of
care) may be modified to achieve quality outcomes.
This assessment requires you to prepare an 8–10 minute audio training
tutorial (with optional video) for new nurses on the importance of nursingsensitive quality indicators. To successfully prepare for your assessment,
you will need to complete the following preparatory activities:
Review the nursing-sensitive quality indicators presented in the
Assessment 04 Supplement: Informatics and Nursing Sensitive
quality Indicators [PDF]
(https://courseroom.capella.edu/courses/13389/files/2151846?wrap=1)
(https://courseroom.capella.edu/courses/13389/files/2151846/download
?download_frd=1) resource and select one nursing-sensitive quality
indicator to use as the focus for this assessment.
Conduct independent research on the most current information about
the selected nursing-sensitive quality indicator.
Interview a professional colleague or contact who is familiar with
quality monitoring and how technology can help to collect and report
quality indicator data. You do not need to submit the transcript of your
conversation, but do integrate what you learned from the interview
into the audio tutorial. Consider these questions for your interview:
What is your experience with collecting data and entering it into a
database?
What challenges have you experienced?
How does your organization share with the nursing staff and other
members of the health care system the quality improvement
monitoring results?
What role do bedside nurses and other frontline staff have in
entering the data? For example, do staff members enter the
information into an electronic medical record for extraction? Or do
they enter it into another system? How effective is this process?
Watch the Informatics and Nursing-Sensitive Quality Indicators
Video Exemplar
(http://media.capella.edu/CourseMedia/nurs4040element17621/wrapper.
asp) .
Recording Your Presentation
To prepare to record the audio for your presentation, complete the
following:
Set up and test your microphone or headset using the installation
instructions provided by the manufacturer. You only need to use the
headset if your audio is not clear and high quality when captured by
the microphone
Instructions
For this assessment, first review the nursing-sensitive quality indicators
presented in the Assessment 04 Supplement: Informatics and
Nursing Sensitive quality Indicators [PDF]
(https://courseroom.capella.edu/courses/13389/files/2151846?wrap=1)
(https://courseroom.capella.edu/courses/13389/files/2151846/download?
download_frd=1) resource and select one nursing-sensitive quality
indicator to use as the focus for this assessment.
Next, imagine you are a member of a Quality Improvement Council at
any type of health care system, whether acute, ambulatory, home health,
managed care, et cetera. Your Council has identified that newly hired
nurses would benefit from comprehensive training on the importance of
nursing-sensitive quality indicators. The Council would like the training to
address how this information is collected and disseminated across the
organization. It would also like the training to describe the role nurses
have in accurate reporting and high-quality results.
The Council indicates a recording is preferable to a written fact sheet due
to the popularity of audio blogs. In this way, new hires can listen to the
tutorial on their own time using their phone or other device.
As a result of this need, you offer to create an audio tutorial orienting new
hires to these topics. You know that you will need a script to guide your
audio recording. You also plan to incorporate into your script the insights
you learned from conducting an interview with an authority on quality
monitoring and the use of technology to collect and report quality
indicator data.
You determine that you will cover the following topics in your audio
tutorial script:
Introduction: Nursing-Sensitive Quality Indicator
What is the National Database of Nursing-Sensitive Quality
Indicators?
What are nursing-sensitive quality indicators?
Which particular quality indicator did you select to address in your
tutorial?
Why is this quality indicator important to monitor?
Be sure to address the impact of this indicator on the quality of
care and patient safety.
Why do new nurses need to be familiar with this particular quality
indicator when providing patient care?
Collection and Distribution of Quality Indicator Data
A di t i t i d th h d
Additional Requirements
Audio communication: Deliver a professional, effective audio
tutorial on a selected quality indicator that engages new nurses and
motivates them to accurately report quality data in a timely fashion.
Length: 8–10 minute audio recording. Use Kaltura to upload your
recording to the courseroom, or provide a working link your instructor
can access.
Script: A separate document with the script or speaker’s notes is
required. Important: Submissions that do not include the script or
speaker’s notes will be returned as a non-performance.
References: Cite a minimum of three scholarly and/or authoritative
sources.
APA: Submit, along with the recording, a separate reference page
Competencies Measured
Scoring Guide
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evaluated.
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