This section will assist in identifying primary components of self-management in the CCTM role, including assisting patients with identifying barriers in self-management. The CCTM RN will provide comprehensive care recognizing the patient as the source of control in his or her care process. This section contains Structure, Process, and Outcomes in providing support for the self-management of the patient.
Conveying accurate patient information during patient transfer or hand-off is essential to ensuring safe, high-quality care. However, studies have shown that more than two-thirds of adverse patient events are related to communication errors.
The Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) Worksheet is a useful tool for documenting a test of change. The PDSA cycle is shorthand for testing a change by developing a plan to test the change (Plan), carrying out the test (Do), observing and learning from the consequences (Study), and determining what modifications should be made to the test (Act).
Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) are defined as “any report of the status of a patient’s (or person’s) health condition, health behavior, or experience with healthcare that comes directly from the patient, without interpretation of the patient’s response by a clinician or anyone else.” NQF, with funding from the Department of Health and Human Services, brought together a diverse set of stakeholders who could facilitate the groundwork for developing, testing, endorsing, and implementing PRO performance measures.
PAM reliably predicts future ER visits, hospital admissions and readmissions, medication adherence and more.
The National Database of Nursing Quality IndicatorsTM (NDNQI®) is the only national nursing database that provides quarterly and annual reporting of structure, process, and outcome indicators to evaluate nursing care at the unit level.
Fully updated and revised by authors T. Heather Herdman, PhD, RN, FNI, and Shigemi Kamitsuru, PhD, RN, FNI, NANDA International Nursing Diagnoses: Definitions and Classification 2018-2020, Eleventh Edition is the definitive guide to nursing diagnoses, as reviewed and approved by NANDA International (NANDA-I).
As part of the implementation of MIPS, clinician performance is measured through the data clinicians report in four areas - Quality, Improvement Activities, Advancing Care Information, and Cost.
Lean Six Sigma is simply a process for solving a problem. It consists of five phases: Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, & Control. This process is also known as DMAIC, the acronym for thosefive phases. DMAIC is a five-step method for improving existing process problems with unknown causes.
With support from The Commonwealth Fund, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Paul Beeson Faculty Scholars in Aging, Dr. Coleman and colleagues designed a 15-item uni-dimensional measure, the Care Transitions Measure (CTM®), to assess the quality of care transitions.