The National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators®
The National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators® (NDNQI®) delivers evidence to support the importance of nurse sensitive measures in overall patient experience strategy.
Teamwork and collaboration are essential in the CCTM RN role. Teamwork is a structure ensuring each member is aware of each other's roles and competencies, while collaboration ensures there is open communication and shared decision-making amongst each of the members of the team. This section contains structure, process, and outcomes in team development, team roles, communication, impact of team and safety and quality care, and impact of team on systems.
The National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators® (NDNQI®) delivers evidence to support the importance of nurse sensitive measures in overall patient experience strategy.
The CALNOC registry captures and benchmarks unit data, structural measures, process measures, and outcome measures.
Dementia Care MappingTM is designed to empower staff teams to engage in evidence-based critical reflection in order to improve the quality of care for people living with dementia. It provides a direct and ongoing evidence base for practice and practice change. As such, it provides an excellent example of the principles of care mapping, in general; for any condition.
Team Strategies & Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety (TeamSTEPPS) is an evidence-based framework to optimize team performance across the health care delivery system. The communication tools within this framework are excellent guidelines for hand-off communications during care transition.
INTERACT® is a quality improvement program that focuses on the management of acute change in resident condition. It includes clinical and educational tools and strategies for use in every day practice in long-term care facilities.
An assessment tool to measure caregiver strain in individuals caring for chronically-disabled patients.
A functional assessment tool used for care planning with the geriatric patient.
The AONE Nurse Executive Competencies detail the skills knowledge and abilities that guide the practice of nurse leaders in executive practice regardless of their educational level, title or setting.
And overview of health educators and commuity health workers: what they do, where they work, how to become one, etc.
The law provides numerous rights and protections that make health coverage more fair and easy to understand, along with subsidies (through “premium tax credits” and “cost-sharing reductions”) to make it more affordable; including expanding the Medicaid program to cover more people with low incomes.