Running head: SAT 1 – SAT TASK 1: NURSING – QUALITY INDICATORS 1
Organizational Systems and Quality Leadership C489 – Task 1
Name
Date
Western Governors University
, A: Understanding of Nursing Quality Indicators
SAT 1 – SAT TASK 1: NURSING – QUALITY INDICATORS 2
Nursing Quality Indicators are evidence based practices (EBPs) that when implemented
improve patient care and outcomes. Nurses have access to many EBPs, however implementation
and proliferation throughout an institution could be stymied if leadership or nurses don’t see EBPs
as necessary or important in a patient’s care. When leadership and nursing staff receive proper EBP
training and expanded understanding regarding the importance of EBP implementation, then follow
up evaluation can occur to ensure EBPs are occurring consistently in practice throughout the
healthcare system to improve patient outcomes.
B. Advancing Quality Nursing Care
Hospital data is available to compare existing EBP and Nursing Quality Indicators to
determine where my hospital stands and to advance the quality of care in my healthcare system.
Multiple studies have been conducted relative to pressure ulcers, restraints and patient
satisfaction EBPs. The patient in question was restrained in bed on his back and as a result
has the beginning of a pressure ulcer as indicated by the reddening and depression on his
spinal area (Western Governors University, 2019). The simple act of restraint immobilizes a
patient and can lead to pressure ulcers. In the instance of this patient scenario, the nursing staff
and hospital leadership should have had access to at least three EBPs with significance for this
patient in question; specifically pressure ulcers, restraint use and patient satisfaction. In fact, a
study discussed six areas where nurses had completed the most continuing education
regarding EBP. Those six areas included pressure ulcers and restraints, thus this hospital
nursing staff should have had sufficient EBP knowledge with which to operate regarding this
patient. The remaining four areas in the study were urinary incontinence (UI), malnutrition, falls,
and pain (Eglseer, Hödl, & Lohrmann, 2019).
Organizational Systems and Quality Leadership C489 – Task 1
Name
Date
Western Governors University
, A: Understanding of Nursing Quality Indicators
SAT 1 – SAT TASK 1: NURSING – QUALITY INDICATORS 2
Nursing Quality Indicators are evidence based practices (EBPs) that when implemented
improve patient care and outcomes. Nurses have access to many EBPs, however implementation
and proliferation throughout an institution could be stymied if leadership or nurses don’t see EBPs
as necessary or important in a patient’s care. When leadership and nursing staff receive proper EBP
training and expanded understanding regarding the importance of EBP implementation, then follow
up evaluation can occur to ensure EBPs are occurring consistently in practice throughout the
healthcare system to improve patient outcomes.
B. Advancing Quality Nursing Care
Hospital data is available to compare existing EBP and Nursing Quality Indicators to
determine where my hospital stands and to advance the quality of care in my healthcare system.
Multiple studies have been conducted relative to pressure ulcers, restraints and patient
satisfaction EBPs. The patient in question was restrained in bed on his back and as a result
has the beginning of a pressure ulcer as indicated by the reddening and depression on his
spinal area (Western Governors University, 2019). The simple act of restraint immobilizes a
patient and can lead to pressure ulcers. In the instance of this patient scenario, the nursing staff
and hospital leadership should have had access to at least three EBPs with significance for this
patient in question; specifically pressure ulcers, restraint use and patient satisfaction. In fact, a
study discussed six areas where nurses had completed the most continuing education
regarding EBP. Those six areas included pressure ulcers and restraints, thus this hospital
nursing staff should have had sufficient EBP knowledge with which to operate regarding this
patient. The remaining four areas in the study were urinary incontinence (UI), malnutrition, falls,
and pain (Eglseer, Hödl, & Lohrmann, 2019).
