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    In my opinion‚ the trending themes in this course has been quality‚ advocacy. and education. All three of these components are instrumental in providing exceptional patient care and many reputable organizations support and promote these beliefs. NDNQI and TJC have remained in the forefront of the nursing profession’s process improvement initiative‚ providing nurse specific goals and resources to advance standards within the profession. Patient safety is at the forefront of The Joint Commission

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    National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI) established by the American Nurses Association (ANA)‚ provides reports on how care‚ specifically provided by nurses‚ affects patient outcomes. Based on these reports‚ the ANA has developed a national set of nursing sensitive indicators that measure the process of care‚ the structure of care‚ and patient- focused outcomes in a health care setting. NDNQI ’s aim is to help nurses plan and implement patient safety and quality improvements through

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    Western Governor’s University RTT Task 1 Nursing-sensitive indicators can be an important tool in identifying patient care issues that could potentially arise during a hospital stay. By analyzing the data on specific nursing-sensitive indicators‚ the quality of patient care can be optimized and patient satisfaction can be improved. The American Nurses Association (ANA) and the National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI) are two sources of information and guidelines for

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    Organizational Systems and Quality Leadership Task1 The American Nurses Association has played a major role in nursing practice in numerous ways including: defining the scope of practice‚ developing the Code of Ethics for Nurses‚ as well as defining nursing’s impact on patient outcomes by developing Nursing Sensitive Indicators. Nurses are often the first and most often seen face at the bedside‚ providing direct patient care and therefore have the most potential of directly affecting the quality of care and safety

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    Organizational Systems and Quality Leadership RTT- Task 1 Tara McColeman Student ID:000297596 Student Mentor: Kristine Warner 1 Organizational Systems 2 Discussion Nursing Sensitive indicators are guidelines that were implemented during the 1990 ’s when there was a need to restructure and evaluate nursing staffing and identify linkages between nursing to patient ratios and the patient outcomes. (ANA 1995.) I also believe that this redesign was also in response to the major nursing shortage of the 1990

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    Running Head: NURSING-SENSITIVE INDICATORS Nursing-Sensitive Indicators (my name) Western Governors University 1 NURSING-SENSITIVE INDICATORS 2 Nursing-Sensitive Indicators In 1994 the American Nurses Association began work to demonstrate that the profession of nursing has many unique opportunities in which the practice of nursing may impact patient care (ANA‚ 2014a). This paper analyzes Nursing-Sensitive Indicators (NSI) and how they may have impacted patient care in a scenario involving a

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    Nursing-Sensitive Indicators Efforts to define the quality of nursing practice began with Florence Nightingale‚ as she worked to improve hospital conditions and measure patient outcomes. (The Sentinel Watch‚ 2011) Nursing-sensitive indicators are measures used to evaluate the quality of nursing  care patients are receiving and to improve the quality of care given.  Healthcare workers should be identifying the root causes of outcomes‚ regardless of the outcome.  Tracking of these outcomes‚ recognizing

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    Nurse-sensitive indicators are helpful tools in enhancing the quality of nurses‚ which will improve patient outcomes‚ nursing outcomes‚ in addition to performance measurement (Montalvo‚ 2007). According to the National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators TM (NDNQI) (2014)‚ this is a national nursing database‚ which provides reports of processes‚ structure‚ and outcomes quarterly and annually to evaluate nursing care at the unit level (Montalvo‚ 2007). There is a need for a database that can be

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    In the 1800’s an effort to redefine nursing‚ by improving upon patient care‚ Florence Nightingale stands as the patron leader. She went onto grapple with the task of improving upon deplorable hospital conditions; while‚ measuring patient’s outcomes in a statistical method. Over a hundred years later‚ more recent compiled research related to a link between hospital staffing issues and adverse patient outcomes grabs the attention of internal and external healthcare populations. In the 90’s and early

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    interpersonal is the relationship between the other human being. To be able to have effective interpersonal skills‚ it is important to have knowledge and a good practice of verbal and non-verbal communication methods. Both methods are very essential in nursing profession particularly in dealing with or interacting with patients and with their families. Verbal is about the paralinguistic; tone of voice‚ emphasis and manner. In my personal view‚ the kinds of verbal communication differentiate depending on

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