Assessment 4
Informatics and Nursing-Sensitive Quality Indicators

Instructions

Prepare an 8–10 minute audio training tutorial (video is optional) for new
nurses on the importance of nursing-sensitive quality indicators.

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Introduction

The focus of Assessment 4 is on how informatics support
monitoring of nursing-sensitive quality indicator data. You will
develop an 8–10 minute audio (or video) training module to orient
new nurses in a workplace to a single nursing-sensitive quality
indicator critical to the organization. Your recording will address
how data are collected and disseminated across the organization
along with the nurses’ role in supporting accurate reporting and
high quality results.

Preparation

As you begin to prepare this assessment you are encouraged to
complete the Conabedian Quality Assessment Framework
activity. Quality health care delivery requires systematic action.
Completion of this will help you succeed with the assessment as
you consider how the triad of structure (such as the hospital,

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you consider how the triad of structure (such as the hospital,
clinic, provider qualifications/organizational characteristics) and
process (such as the
delivery/coordination/education/protocols/practice style or
standard of care) may be modified to achieve quality outcomes.

This assessment requires you to prepare an 8–10 minute audio
training tutorial (with optional video) for new nurses on the
importance of nursing-sensitive quality indicators. To successfully
prepare for your assessment, you will need to complete the
following preparatory activities:

Select a single nursing-sensitive quality indicator that you see
as important to a selected type of health care system. Choose
from the following list:

Staffing measures.
Nursing hours per patient day.
RN education/certification.
Skill mix.
Nurse turnover.
Nursing care hours in emergency departments,
perioperative units, and perinatal units.
Skill mix in emergency departments,
perioperative units, and perinatal units.

Quality measures.
Patient falls.
Patient falls with injury.
Pressure ulcer prevalence.
Health care-associated infections.

Catheter-associated urinary tract infection.
Central line catheter associated blood stream
infection.
Ventilator-associated pneumonia.
Ventilator- associated events.

Psychiatric physical/sexual assault rate.
Restraint prevalence.
Pediatric peripheral intravenous infiltration rate.

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Pediatric peripheral intravenous infiltration rate.
Pediatric pain assessment, intervention, reassessment
(air) cycle.
Falls in ambulatory settings.
Pressure ulcer incidence rates from electronic health
records.
Hospital readmission rates.
RN satisfaction survey options.

Job satisfaction scales.
Job satisfaction scales – short form.
Practice environment scale.

Conduct independent research on the most current
information about the selected nursing-sensitive quality
indicator.
Interview a professional colleague or contact who is familiar
with quality monitoring and how technology can help to collect
and report quality indicator data. You do not need to submit
the transcript of your conversation, but do integrate what you
learned from the interview into the audio tutorial. Consider
these questions for your interview:

What is your experience with collecting data and entering
it into a database?
What challenges have you experienced?
How does your organization share with the nursing staff
and other members of the health care system the quality
improvement monitoring results?
What role do bedside nurses and other frontline staff have
in entering the data? For example, do staff members enter
the information into an electronic medical record for
extraction? Or do they enter it into another system? How
effective is this process?

Watch the Informatics and Nursing-Sensitive Quality
Indicators Video Exemplar
(http://media.capella.edu/CourseMedia/nurs4040element17621/wr
apper.asp) .

Recording Your Presentation

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Recording Your Presentation

To prepare to record the audio for your presentation, complete
the following:

Set up and test your microphone or headset using the
installation instructions provided by the manufacturer. You
only need to use the headset if your audio is not clear and
high quality when captured by the microphone.
Practice using the equipment to ensure the audio quality is
sufficient.
Review Using Kaltura for Kaltura to record your
presentation.
View Creating a Presentation: A Guide to Writing and
Speaking (http://media.capella.edu/coursemedia/nurs-
fpx4050element17324/wrapper.asp) . This video addresses the
primary areas involved in creating effective audiovisual
presentations. You can return to this resource throughout the
process of creating your presentation to view the tutorial
appropriate for you at each stage.

Notes:

You may use other tools to record your tutorial. You will,
however, need to consult Using Kaltura for instructions
on how to upload your audio-recorded tutorial into the
courseroom, or you must provide a working link your
instructor can easily access.
You may also choose to create a video of your tutorial, but
this is not required.
If you require the use of assistive technology or alternative
communication methods to participate in this activity, please
contact [email protected]
(mailto:[email protected]) to request
accommodations.

Instructions

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Instructions

For this assessment, imagine you are a member of a Quality
Improvement Council at any type of health care system, whether
acute, ambulatory, home health, managed care, et cetera. Your
Council has identified that newly hired nurses would benefit from
comprehensive training on the importance of nursing-sensitive
quality indicators. The Council would like the training to address
how this information is collected and disseminated across the
organization. It would also like the training to describe the role
nurses have in accurate reporting and high-quality results.

The Council indicates a recording is preferable to a written fact
sheet due to the popularity of audio blogs. In this way, new hires
can listen to the tutorial on their own time using their phone or
other device.

As a result of this need, you offer to create an audio tutorial
orienting new hires to these topics. You know that you will need a
script to guide your audio recording. You also plan to incorporate
into your script the insights you learned from conducting an
interview with an authority on quality monitoring and the use of
technology to collect and report quality indicator data.

You determine that you will cover the following topics in your
audio tutorial script:

Introduction: Nursing-Sensitive Quality

Indicator
What is the National Database of Nursing-
Sensitive Quality Indicators?
What are nursing-sensitive quality indicators?
Which particular quality indicator did you select to address in
your tutorial?
Why is this quality indicator important to monitor?

Be sure to address the impact of this indicator on the

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Be sure to address the impact of this indicator on the
quality of care and patient safety.

Why do new nurses need to be familiar with this particular
quality indicator when providing patient care?

Collection and Distribution of Quality

Indicator Data
According to your interview and other resources, how does
your organization collect data on this quality indicator?
How does the organization disseminate aggregate data?
What role do nurses play in supporting accurate reporting and
high-quality results?

As an example, consider the importance of accurately
entering data regarding nursing interventions.

After completing your script, practice delivering your tutorial
several times before recording it.

Additional Requirements

Audio communication: Deliver a professional, effective
audio tutorial on a selected quality indicator that engages new
nurses and motivates them to accurately report quality data in
a timely fashion.
Length: 8–10 minute audio recording. Use Kaltura to upload
your recording to the courseroom, or provide a working link
your instructor can access.
Script: A separate document with the script or speaker’s
notes is required. Important: Submissions that do not include
the script or speaker’s notes will be returned as a non-
performance.
References: Cite a minimum of three scholarly and/or
authoritative sources.
APA: Submit, along with the recording, a separate reference
page that follows APA style and formatting guidelines. For an

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page that follows APA style and formatting guidelines. For an
APA refresher, consult the Evidence and APA page on
Campus.

Context

Competencies Measured

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