INFORMATICS AND NURSING SENSITIVE QUALITY INDICATORS
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The paper explores data handling in nursing. Data plays an important role in nursing as it forms the bases of the practice. Over the years, data collection, reporting, and storage have been of significance to healthcare providers leading to huge investments in data management. Effective care provis...
Informatics and Nursing Sensitive Quality Indicators
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Data plays an important role in nursing as it forms the bases of the practice. Over the
years, data collection, reporting, and storage have been of significance to healthcare providers
leading to huge investments in data management. Effective care provision depends on how well-
documented a patient’s case is and the availability of such data to the care providers. One of the
challenges that nurses face daily is the issue of Patient Falls resulting in various injuries while
under care. The write-up presents statistics-based data on patients’ falls with injuries in US
healthcare systems and how data regarding the issue is collected, analyzed, and stored. More so,
a comprehensive interview with Mr. John Smith the head of data at Heritage Healthcare Facility
is presented exploring the importance of data systems in nursing facilities.
Patient Falls with Injury
Patient Falls resulting in injuries are one of the most important nursing quality indicators
in patient care. Every time such an accident occurs, questions are asked and answers sought in a
bid to explain the causes of the falls and the mitigation factors to prevent future occurrences.
According to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) report of 2019, each year
between 700,000 and 1,000,000 individuals fall in US hospitals (LeLaurin & Shorr, 2019). This
results in all manner of injuries including fractures, internal bleeding, and lacerations resulting in
the need for increased healthcare utilization (LeLaurin & Shorr, 2019). The report further
indicates that almost a third of all falls are preventable through the implementation of various
interventions.
The fall prevention approach regards managing patients’ fall predisposing factors as well
as optimization of the hospice’s physical design as well as the surroundings (LeLaurin & Shorr,
2019). The toolkit aims at overcoming the issues associated with the development,
implementation, and sustenance of a fall prevention approach. Nurses must be conversant with
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