interpret the data and frame a nursing plan based on best practices

For this Assignment, use the Dashboard located in this week’s Resources, to interpret the data and frame a nursing plan based on best practices.

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• Review the Week 4 Resources that pertain to the NDNQI and use of dashboards
• Choose a Nurse-Sensitive Quality Indicator that needs improvement based on the data presented in the Dashboard.
• Develop a nursing plan that outlines suggestions on how to improve performance in the chosen area.
• Provide at least three best practices from evidenced-based literature to support your nursing plan.

I chose pressure ulcer rate.

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List of Indicators

• Nursing Hours per Patient Day – Structure
  • Registered Nurses (RN) Hours per Patient Day
  • Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurses (LPN/LVN) Hours per Patient Day
  • Unlicensed Assistive (UAP) Hours per Patient Day

• Nursing Turnover Rate – Structure
• Nosocomial Infections – Outcome

• Patient Falls – Process and Outcome

• Patient Falls with Injury – Process and Outcome
  • Injury Level
• Pressure Ulcer Rate – Process and Outcome
  • Community-acquired
  • Hospital-acquired
  • Unit-acquired
• Pediatric Pain Assessment, Intervention, Reassessment (AIR) Cycle – Process
• Pediatric Peripheral Intravenous Infiltration – Outcome
• Psychiatric Physical/Sexual Assault – Outcome
• RN Education/Certification – Structure
• RN Survey – Process and Outcome
  • Job Satisfaction Scales
  • Practice Environment Scale (PES)
• Restraints – Outcome
• Staff Mix – Structure
  • RN
  • LPN/LVNs
  • UAP
  • Percent Agency Staff

Reflect on how you would develop a nursing plan with suggestions on how to improve performance in the chosen area.

Assignment

• Draft a 3- to 4 page paper analyzing areas where there is good performance and areas of opportunity from the sample Dashboard.
• Analyze the data provided in the Dashboard and select an area of performance that needs improvement.
• Include information on why this area was chosen.
• Develop a nursing plan that includes suggestions on how to improve performance on the selected indicator. Be sure to provide at least three best practices from the evidenced-based literature to support your suggested nursing plan.

Sample Dashboard is attached

Link for NDNQI information

http://ojin.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/ANAMarketplace/ANAPeriodicals/OJIN/TableofContents/Volume122007/No3Sept07/NursingQualityIndicators.html