Question

Describe your design for a process to collect and present data to your unit on at least one nurse sensitive indicator. Include how you intend to use the obtained data in driving and sustaining performance improvement.

Answer 1

Design is a tool used to collect data. In this case I am using observational method to collect the data on the nurse sensitive indicator -nursing care hours given to the nurse for each patient. From the data collected by observational method it is found that the number of incidence of pressure ulcers, medicinal error are increasing due to shortage of time to devote on increased number of patients.

Due the staff shortage ,the nurse : patient ration is increased from 1:2 to 1:3- 1:4 and this is causing overburden on the nurses .They are unable to provide appropriate nursing care and time to each patient

The data hence ,proves that if the nurse patient ratio is decreased then the nurses are able to provide patient centred quality care to their patients and it will improve the performance and decrease the chances of pressure ulcers and medicine errors