Prepare an 8–10 minute audio training tutorial (video is optional) for new nurses on the

importance of nursing-sensitive quality indicators.

Expand All

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

Use the scoring guide to understand how your assessment will be

evaluated.

View Scoring Guide

We can handle this paper for you

We Guarantee ZERO Plagiarism ZERO AI

Done by Professional writers from scratch