Select and Introduce a condition or disease [Consider Using Hospital Acquired Condition or Value Based Conditions].

  1. This assignment is designed to illustrate the importance of nurse-sensitive indicators in relationship to patient outcomes.
    Assignment Outline [Use a Level Heading for Each]:

    1. Select and Introduce a condition or disease [Consider Using Hospital Acquired Condition or Value Based Conditions].
    2. Identify the nurse-sensitive indicators that relate to your selection, and indicate if they are structural, process, or outcome in nature.
    3. Create a plan of care showing how you would employ-incorporate the indicators to guide your plan, goals, and or actions to predictably improve the care outcome(s). Use the Following:
    4. a. Use the Total Quality Management Method [Can use your own facility’s format] to organize your plan of care.b. May use the nursing process to organize your plan [however compare/contrast to the TQM method of your choice].
    • Summary and Conclusions Section: Explain how mandated quality of care practices impact your plan of care, and discuss what you have learned.