NURS 3100 Week 4 Assignment: Prevention Quality Indicators
NURS 3100 Week 4 Assignment: Prevention Quality Indicators (Walden)
Sample Brief: This week for my discussion post I have chosen to write about quality indicators. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) states these indicators are used to measure health care quality concerns, identify areas that need further study and investigate, and track changes over time (AHRQ, 2016). There are four indicators that the mentions: prevention quality, inpatient quality, patient safety, and pediatric quality. I have chosen to speak about the patient safety indicators. These indicators are used to identify areas where there is the potential for error or where there has already been an error. Once identified, these areas can be further investigated, and changes can be made to prevent future errors from occurring (AHRQ, 2016). At the facility where I work,
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Prevention Quality Indicators
NURS 3100 Section 01, Issues and Trends
Prevention Quality Indicators
The core of any government is to give its citizens’ quality and affordable health care. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) developed some quality indicators that help assess the quality of Health care services given in the country (AHRQ, 2011). Prevention …
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Nursing can be a struggle at times, especially when not working with a good team of people. The team that us nurses must learn to lead, collaborate, and understand, is made up of the doctors, other nurses, nurses aids/er techs, physician assistants, LVNs, medical assistants, and …
NURS 3100 Week 5 Discussion (Walden)
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One of the biggest issues in the hospital is the readmission and death rates after leaving thehospital within 30 days of being discharged for pneumonia, copd, stroke, heart failure. I looked on the Medicare database for my hospital, Kaiser Foundation Hospital in Fontana. Per this database, the readmissions rates were no different than the national average, as well as the death rates.
NURS 3100 Week 6 Reflection Paper (Walden)
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I can’t believe this class is already over and how much we have learned! Looking back on when I first started, I had hoped to learn and understand statistics and how to apply it to my everyday life. I remember reading the first chapters and how different polls are taken and the margin of error, and how that affects the polls. I found this to be especially interesting ..
