NURS FPX 4040 Assessment 4 Attempt 1 Informatics and Nursing Sensitive Quality Indicators The Selected Quality Indicator and its Importance
The quality indicator that will be particularly focused on in this tutorial is falls in ambulatory settings. You all must be aware of the ambulatory setting, it is also known as outpatient care. This department is extremely essential in our organization as better implications and quality care in ambulatory care help in reducing costs and impacting the length of patients’ stay at the hospital. In the current circumstances, the enhanced skillsets and professionalism of the registered nurses are the key parameters to providing quality care to the patients. Nurses in ambulatory care have lots of responsibilities in terms of care coordination, patient-centered treatment, recording of the patient’s data, lab tests and medication, management, and coordination with patients’ families. Performing all these tasks simultaneously is often nerve-wracking for the nurses as the ambulatory setting is more multifarious and attention-requiring than the other departments of our healthcare facility. The increasing number of patients and responsibilities impact the nurses’ performance and can negatively result in an enhanced fall rate. In order to prevent the increasing fall rate and improve the quality index of nurses, advanced informatics systems and nursing-sensitive quality indicators are required. The use of advanced and modern technology for gathering the quality indicator data that can be used to assess nursing performance is the main element to restructure all the monotonous tasks and improve the healthcare system.
For all the dedicated staff listening to this audio tutorial, I appreciate your hard work and professionalism in ambulatory care. With this quality indicator, our hospital can improve the healthcare outcomes for our patients and deliver effective and efficient treatment to ensure the speedy recovery of the patient. It is very essential for all of us to understand the linkage between the outcomes, processes, and structures we have designed to improve the patient-centered outcomes and safety of the patients. The ambulatory care environment is rather uncontrollable as compared to the critical hospital setting as the patient visit for a little while and is not under our constant supervision. Therefore, it is extremely important for the registered nurses to provide quality treatment and care plans to follow so that frequent readmissions and transformation into any other chronic disease can be avoided. Furthermore, recording the patients’ data and history is a must to be available in the hospital records to keep a track of patients’ health and this can only be done by the use of modern electronic health record systems.
Why do Nurses Need to be Conscious of this Quality Indicator?
Nurses must be well aware of this quality indicator to improve patient-centered care and work in a more organized manner. They can frequently check the outcomes on a daily basis, care processes provided in ambulatory care, and infrastructure that has been planned to ensure better patient care practices. You are required to continuously analyze and improve your performance according to the nursing-sensitive quality indicator. The best way to improve and prevent the risks is to track the daily performance. The most important aspect of improvement is maintaining the ambulatory care record. The data and information of the patients must be kept in the hospital record system by implementing electronic health record systems. So, that nurses can provide the right treatment to the patients at the right time (Bell, et al, 2020). Nurses’ awareness regarding this indicator and maintenance of health records can directly impact the measures taken by the nurses while providing patient care in the ambulatory setting and avoid the risk of liabilities.