Incident Based Peer Review Paper

Incident Based Peer Review: An Examination of the Process Examining the structure of incident based peer review (IBPR), along with the rules and regulations, better equips a nurses understanding of the duty they are privileged to perform for the safety of patients. While using incident based peer review committees in a positive way, nurses are given the insight of errors in their duties, allowing for improved quality care. Upon reading this paper, the understanding of how the peer review committee was formed, the rules and regulations in which the committee conducts the peer review, as well as the purpose of the committee will be understood. Background The nursing peer review (NPR) guidelines were published in 1988 by the American Nurses Association (ANA) (Branowicki et al., 2011; Haag-Heitman, 2011). According to Spiva, Jarrell, and Baio (2014) “Nursing peer review is an evaluation of professional nursing practice…” (p.586). NPR is a tool used for organizations to evaluate the quality of care given, including, but not limited to, “…complications, adverse outcomes, and incident reports by one’s peers” (Kadar, 2014, p. 596). According to the Texas Board of Nursing (section 303.001) the NPR is a process that looks at the facts while analyzing and studying the events after gathering all …show more content…
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