Abstract
Nursing is the largest healthcare profession in the United States (U.S.). As principal frontline caregivers in the U.S. healthcare system, nurses have tremendous influence over a patient's healthcare experience. A growing body of evidence states that the nursing workforce has a direct impact on healthcare quality. A standardized approach to measuring nursing's contribution to patient care and safety using nursing-sensitive quality indicators assists in examining the extent to which nurses and nursing affect the quality and safety of health care. This article focuses on nursing-sensitive quality indicators and discusses healthcare quality indicators and nursing-sensitive indicators used in the U.S. A summary of the work of the American Nephrology Nurses' Association Task Force on Nephrology Nursing-Sensitive Quality Indicators (NNSQI) and an NNSQI exemplar are provided.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 317-325 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Nephrology nursing journal : journal of the American Nephrology Nurses' Association |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| State | Published - Jul 1 2017 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Medicine
Keywords
- legislation
- patient care
- patient safety
- policy
- quality improvement