Quality Nursing Assignment

Quality Nursing Assignment

Nurses use Quality Indicators (QIs) for several purposes. QIs highlight potential quality concerns, identify areas that need further study and investigation, and track changes over time. Current Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) QIs include Prevention Quality Indicators, Inpatient Quality Indicators, Patient Safety Indicators, and Pediatric Quality Indicators (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, n.d.).

http://www.qualityindicators.ahrq.gov/

Identify and describe one QI. Think about the ways in which following and measuring this crucial health data improve effectiveness and efficiency in your nursing practice.

In subsequent weeks, you will continue working in this substantive area.

• Choose a QI related to a nursing topic of interest to you. Include any points that relate your selected topic to the journey ahead in your nursing career.
• Find two articles to support your scholarly opinion in your paper.
• Draft a 2- to 3-page paper to describe your selected QI in general, and then describe how this QI has the potential to improve the quality, safety, and outcomes of your patients and their families.
• Describe the current data available and leadership’s goal for improvement.
• Draft a solution using 2 sources from professional and scholarly literature to support your proposal APA styleImportant information for writing discussion questions and participation

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  Plagiarism is highly prohibited. Please ensure you are citing your sources correctly using APA 7th edition. All assignments including discussion posts should be formatted in APA with the appropriate spacing, font, margin, and indents. Any papers not well formatted would be returned back to you, hence, I advise you review APA formatting style. I have attached a sample paper in APA format and will also post sample discussion responses in subsequent announcements.

  Your initial discussion post should be a minimum of 200 words and response posts should be a minimum of 150 words. Be advised that I grade based on quality and not necessarily the number of words you post. A minimum of TWO references should be used for your initial post. For your response post, you do not need references as personal experiences would count as response posts. If you however cite anything from the literature for your response post, it is required that you cite your reference. You should include a minimum of THREE references for papers in this course. Please note that references should be no more than 5 years old except recommended as a resource for the class. Furthermore, for each discussion board question, you need ONE initial substantive response and TWO substantive responses to either your classmates or your instructor for a total of THREE responses. There are TWO discussion questions each week, hence, you need a total minimum of SIX discussion posts for each week. I usually post a discussion question each week. You could also respond to these as it would count towards your required SIX discussion posts for the week.

  I understand this is a lot of information to cover in 5 weeks, however, the Bible says in Philippians 4:13 that we can do all things through Christ that strengthens us. Even in times like this, we are encouraged by God’s word that we have that ability in us to succeed with His strength. I pray that each and every one of you receives strength for this course and life generally as we navigate through this pandemic that is shaking our world today. Relax and enjoy the course!

  Hi Class,

  Please read through the following information on writing a Discussion question response and participation posts.

  Contact me if you have any questions.

  Important information on Writing a Discussion Question

  • Your response needs to be a minimum of 150 words (not including your list of references)
  • There needs to be at least TWO references with ONE being a peer reviewed professional journal article.
  • Include in-text citations in your response
  • Do not include quotes—instead summarize and paraphrase the information
  • Follow APA-7th edition
  • Points will be deducted if the above is not followed

  Participation –replies to your classmates or instructor

  • A minimum of 6 responses per week, on at least 3 days of the week.
  • Each response needs at least ONE reference with citations—best if it is a peer reviewed journal article
  • Each response needs to be at least 75 words in length (does not include your list of references)
  • Responses need to be substantive by bringing information to the discussion or further enhance the discussion. Responses of “I agree” or “great post” does not count for the word count.
  • Follow APA 7th edition
  • Points will be deducted if the above is not followed
  • Remember to use and follow APA-7th edition for all weekly assignments, discussion questions, and participation points.
  • Here are some helpful links
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The AHRQ QIs were developed from an extensive, iterative process that included interviews from a broad spectrum of organizations that represented QI users and potential users, literature reviews that identified possible quality measures, evaluation of the candidate measures as well as evaluation of several risk-adjustment methods for use with the potential measures, empirical analysis, and validation. The process can be roughly divided into two phases: the first identifies candidate measures or indicators, and the second analyzes the potentially viable measures or indicators.

During development of the QIs, the UCSF-Stanford EPC used the Institute of Medicine’s definition of care quality to guide the development process: “the degree to which health services for individuals and populations increase the likelihood of desired health outcomes and are consistent with current professional knowledge.”6 Based on this definition, six key questions were developed to direct the selection of measures for further evaluation. They were:

Which indicators currently in use or described in the literature could be defined using hospital discharge data?
What are the quality relationships reported in the literature that could be used to define new indicators using hospital discharge data?

What evidence exists for indicators not well represented in the current set of indicators—pediatric conditions, chronic disease, new technologies, and ambulatory care sensitive conditions?
Which indicators have literature-based evidence to support face validity, precision of measurement, minimum bias, and construct validity of the indicator?
What risk-adjustment method should be suggested for use with the recommended indicators, given the limits of administrative data and other practical concerns?
Which indicators perform well on empirical tests of precision of measurement, minimum bias, and construct validity?
Identifying Candidate Indicators
In the first phase of development, the UCSF-Stanford EPC conducted interviews with individuals affiliated with hospital associations, business coalitions, State data groups, Federal agencies, and academia about topics related to quality measurement. The interviews provided background information on measure use, suggested new indicators for potential development, and provided the names of additional individuals within the field who could be contacted for an interview. The interviews also suggested new risk-adjustment methods and assisted in framing the evaluation of potential indicators. With this information and relevant literature, the team developed a framework in which to evaluate the performance of the candidate measure. Table 2 provides an overview of the criteria used to evaluate the potential measures as well as a brief description of each.