Informatics and Nursing sensitive quality indicators
Capella university
Nurs 4040 Managing Health Info and Tech.
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Informatics and Nursing sensitive quality indicators
Introduction
Hello and Good Morning. I am Michele Shevlin, and I'm honored to have you join our
team here at Southern Ocean University Hospital. I want to start by congratulating you on
joining our team and being a part of our great organization. Southern Ocean prides itself on
patient safety and satisfaction. Selecting a national health center is a significant decision, and I
hope you love it here as much as we do. I am here to help you navigate the system. By the time
this program ends, I hope you will have a solid understanding of our organization and what has
to be done on your part to fulfill the institution's goals and your personal goals.
Here at Southern Ocean, we use Nursing Sensitive Quality Indicators – also known as
the NDNQI, in our healthcare system. According to Madaris & Potter (2023), The degree to
which your company adheres to established nursing standards has an effect on the experiences of
patients and staff. The National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI), originally
introduced by the American Nurses Association (ANA) in 1998, is currently a Press Ganey
, solution. It is the only in-depth platform of its kind that gathers and analyzes nursing data,
allowing nursing units to evaluate its impact on patient outcomes and clinical quality. It is also
the oldest and largest of its kind.
More than 2,000 hospitals use the NDNQI, the largest database for unit-level
performance. Using the NDNQI, which comprises 95% of Magnet-recognized institutions,
assess how they stack up against comparable hospitals at the state, regional, and national levels.
The only national database that provides quarterly and annual reporting on structure, process,
and quality indicators helpful for evaluating practice at the nursing unit level is this one, which is
exclusively accessible to nurses.(Hebb et al., 2023) The administrative documentation and the