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1NR506 QUALITY HEALTHCARE: MEASURING NP
PERFORMANCE, 100% CORRECT
Quality Healthcare: Measuring NP Performance
Bailee Hinds
Chamberlain University: Family Nurse Practitioner
Track NR506NP: Healthcare Policy and Leadership
Melanie Hankins
Laws May 2020
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Quality Healthcare: Measuring NP Performance
Productivity plays a big part in the success of practicing APNs. Productivity
serves as a measurement for practices in regulating reimbursement and
determining salaries for Nurse Practitioners. However, nursing productivity is
measured for many reasons. Measuring productivity can aid in determining
quality of care, decreasing healthcare costs for patients and healthcare
organizations, and overall increase patient satisfaction in regards to care received
(Balderrama & Smith, 2018). The Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information
Set (HEDIS) is a performance improvement tool used that is frequently used
within healthcare. For the purpose of this paper, the performance measure of
controlling high blood pressure, as listed within HEDIS, will be discussed. Roughly
80 million adults in the United States, those 20 years of age and older, have
hypertension (Schub & Marcel, 2018). When comprehending this number, it is
clear that Nurse Practitioners everywhere can expect to be involved in the
treatment of this condition. In the following literature, patient interventions
concerning controlling hypertension and the measurement of resulting outcomes
will be discussed as well as how those interventions result in improved patient
outcomes, cost savings and improved patient ratings.
Patient Interventions
Intervention One: Weight Monitoring
While there are many risk factors for the development of hypertension, obesity is
one of the most prominent. There is a direct correlation between increasing body mass
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