Nursing-Sensitive Indicators
a) Discuss how an understanding of nursing-sensitive indicators could assist the nurses in this case in identifying issues that may interfere with patient care.
Nursing-sensitive indicators are critical determinants that the nursing profession utilizes to describe the efficiency that nursing interventions bring as well as positive patient outcomes. The case of Mr. J is truly saddening as the evidence describing the entire case indicates that the nurses that attended to the patient had only a smattering of restraint-prevalence indicators. The situation that facilitated the patient to earn the restraint are obscure, a factor that raises a plethora of nagging questions on the professionalism of the hospital. No validation, …show more content…
J under restraints infringed his rights as a patient since his skin developed sunburns as seen by his daughter when she visited him. Proper management and placement were clearly not adhered to as an important procedure when putting the patient under restraint. Moreover, the daughter noticed some red blemish on her father’s skin, and when she reported it to the nursing assistant, it was met with dismissal. The nursing assistant would not have dismissed the daughter if she had acquired proper training in the utilization of restraint on patients. The red mark was an indication of the development of pressure ulcers in its first stage, a situation that the nursing assistant would avert if they had a comprehensive understanding of patient outcomes (Lyder & Ayello, 2008). An understanding of patient outcomes would have prompted the nursing assistant to apprise the nurse of the situation, and necessary measures would have been taken to salvage the patient from the …show more content…
The hospital provided the patient with non-kosher food, which was a pathetic violation of the patient’s traditions since he was Jewish. The only meals that ought to have been given were kosher meat. The violation was far-reaching as it formed the foundation of the poor patient care that the hospital provides. In effect, Mr. J and his daughter must have noted the intentional negligence of the hospital and ended up harboring deep dissatisfaction. These violations are contributory in eroding the great reputation that health care systems possess. The patient subsequently aired a string of complaints after discharge, which affects the overall image of the health care sector. Such negligence can be avoided when nurses understand nursing-sensitive indicators and the holistic package of patient outcomes.
b) Analyze how hospital data on specific nursing-sensitive indicators (such as incidence of pressure ulcers and prevalence of restraints) could advance quality patient care throughout the
a) Discuss how an understanding of nursing-sensitive indicators could assist the nurses in this case in identifying issues that may interfere with patient care.
Nursing-sensitive indicators are critical determinants that the nursing profession utilizes to describe the efficiency that nursing interventions bring as well as positive patient outcomes. The case of Mr. J is truly saddening as the evidence describing the entire case indicates that the nurses that attended to the patient had only a smattering of restraint-prevalence indicators. The situation that facilitated the patient to earn the restraint are obscure, a factor that raises a plethora of nagging questions on the professionalism of the hospital. No validation, …show more content…
J under restraints infringed his rights as a patient since his skin developed sunburns as seen by his daughter when she visited him. Proper management and placement were clearly not adhered to as an important procedure when putting the patient under restraint. Moreover, the daughter noticed some red blemish on her father’s skin, and when she reported it to the nursing assistant, it was met with dismissal. The nursing assistant would not have dismissed the daughter if she had acquired proper training in the utilization of restraint on patients. The red mark was an indication of the development of pressure ulcers in its first stage, a situation that the nursing assistant would avert if they had a comprehensive understanding of patient outcomes (Lyder & Ayello, 2008). An understanding of patient outcomes would have prompted the nursing assistant to apprise the nurse of the situation, and necessary measures would have been taken to salvage the patient from the …show more content…
The hospital provided the patient with non-kosher food, which was a pathetic violation of the patient’s traditions since he was Jewish. The only meals that ought to have been given were kosher meat. The violation was far-reaching as it formed the foundation of the poor patient care that the hospital provides. In effect, Mr. J and his daughter must have noted the intentional negligence of the hospital and ended up harboring deep dissatisfaction. These violations are contributory in eroding the great reputation that health care systems possess. The patient subsequently aired a string of complaints after discharge, which affects the overall image of the health care sector. Such negligence can be avoided when nurses understand nursing-sensitive indicators and the holistic package of patient outcomes.
b) Analyze how hospital data on specific nursing-sensitive indicators (such as incidence of pressure ulcers and prevalence of restraints) could advance quality patient care throughout the