War on Wounds in the Adult Intensive Care Units
War on Wounds in the Adult Intensive Care Units Janet Nowland MS, RN, CWOCN1 Jocelyn Wickey BSN, RN2 1Team Leader, Wound Care Team Janet.Nowland@sjmc.org 2Project Specialist St. John Medical Center…
Utilizing a Resource Nurse Model to Improve Nosocomial Pressure Ulcer Rates
Utilizing a Resource Nurse Model to Improve Nosocomial Pressure Ulcer Rates Gale Danek PhD, RN, NE-BC1 Betty Jax MSN, ARNP, RN-BC2 Peggy Guin PhD, ARNP, CNRN, CNS-BC3 1Administrative Director, Nursing…
Using NDNQI Reports for Quality Improvement
Using NDNQI Reports for Quality Improvement Effective quality improvement (QI) involves a series of steps or phases. Once a problem is identified, the QI team examines potential causes, then selects…
Introduction
Introduction NDNQI® invited 11 hospitals to share their stories of successful nursing quality improvement in this chapter. Hospitals were selected by two methods. First, regression analysis was used to rank…
Evaluating and Improving Nursing Quality
Evaluating and Improving Nursing Quality Nurses have always been instrumental in improving patient safety and the quality of health care. As the nursing profession was born, Florence Nightingale used data…
