Summary Task 1 C489.docx C489 Organizational Systems and Quality Leadership Task 1 Western Governors University Understanding of Nursing Quality Indicators In the year 1998, The American Nurses Association created the National Database of Nursing Quality

Task 1 C C489 Organizational Systems and Quality Leadership Task 1 Western Governors University Understanding of Nursing Quality Indicators In the year 1998, The American Nurses Association created the National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (Cherry & Jacob, 2008). This helped to push safety and the quality initiative. The main purpose of this database is to €œprovide comparative data to health care organizations to support QI activities and to develop national data to better understand the link between nurse staffing and patient outcomes (Cherry & Jacob, 2008.) The Nursing Quality Indicators include structure, process and outcome (Cherry & Jacob, 2008). In the scenario provided, the first National Quality Indicator that would guide the nurse in this situation would be process. The process of safely restraining a patient is violated in this scenario. The patient does not appe