Prepare an 8–10 minute audio training tutorial (video is optional)
for new nurses on the importance of nursing-sensitive quality indicators.
Before you complete the detailed instructions in the courseroom, first review the Nursing-
Sensitive Quality Indicators below and select the one you’re most interested in. Nursing-
Sensitive Quality Indicators reflect the structure, process, and patient outcomes of nursing care.
Nursing-Sensitive Quality Indicators are developed by identifying potential indicators that reflect
nursing care and are not represented by current indicators, performing a literature review, and
determining the validity of the potential indicator in nursing practice.
After you select one of the Nursing-Sensitive Quality Indicators below, return to the courseroom
to review the detailed instructions and complete your assessment.
• Patient Falls With Injury – Process and Outcome.
• Pressure Ulcer Rate – Process and Outcome.
• Pediatric Pain Assessment, Intervention, and Reassessment – Process and
Outcome.
• Restraint Prevalence – Process and Outcome.
• RN Education/Specialty Certification – Structure.

Preparation:
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:
• Review the nursing-sensitive quality indicators presented in the Assessment 04 Supplement: Informatics and Nursing Sensitive quality Indicators [PDF] Download Assessment 04 Supplement: Informatics and Nursing Sensitive quality Indicators [PDF]resource and select one nursing-sensitive quality indicator to use as the focus for this assessment.
• 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:
o What is your experience with collecting data and entering it into a database?
o What challenges have you experienced?
o How does your organization share with the nursing staff and other members of the health care system the quality improvement monitoring results?
o 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?