Assignment: Quality Nursing (Part 2 of 3)- summarize your classmate’s paper in 1 page

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You learned in Week 4 that nurses use Quality Indicators (QIs) to highlight potential quality concerns, identify areas that need further study and investigation, and track changes over time. You identified and described a current Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) QI using three professional articles that you found in the Walden Library

In week 5, you now have the opportunity to share your paper with a colleague in the classroom (to be assigned by instructor). This allows you to learn about a QI that is of interest to a classmate. You will summarize your classmate’s paper in 1 page. Summarization is an important writing skill that you will utilize over the course of the Walden program and throughout your future professional work

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QUALITY NURSING: PATIENT SAFETYQuality Nursing: Patient SafetyPamela DanielJune 26th2016

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QUALITY NURSING: PATIENT SAFETYThe general term that has been being used to deal with the main concerns inhealthcare and nursing is quality. The term healthcare quality or quality healthcare is anumbrella term under which all the issues in nursing are covered, and patient safety has alsobeen being seen as a similar concern. However, in the recent years, the focus on patient safetyhas increased. Still, the most critical thing in this regard is to recognize the role that thenurses play concerning patient safety and quality. These factors generally have not been atraditional part of nursing education which is mainly because the focus on patient safety usedto be less.During the recent period, the use of Patient safety indicators at an organizational levelhas increased. The role of nurses with regards to patient safety becomes the most importantsince they are the staff, who are in regular interaction with the patients and their families aswell as the health care team. Their role regarding “ensuring patient safety by monitoringpatients for clinical deterioration, detecting errors and near misses, understanding careprocesses and weaknesses inherent in some systems, and performing countless other tasks toensure patients receive high-quality care” is also critical (AHRQ, 2015).One of the Patient Safety Indicators identified by AHRQ (PSI-11) is the postoperativerespiratory failure. Postoperative Respiratory Failure is one of the most common PSIs thathas a ten times higher rate than most other PSIs. It is an important patient safety indicatoraffecting the outcome of care across several patient populations.Several research studieshave highlighted the importance of understanding the impact of these PSIs. In a researchstudy, Smith, Zhao, and Rosen emphasized, “We examined whether veterans with psychoticdisorders were at increased risk of potential inpatient safety events as measured by the AHRQPSIs during non-psychiatric, acute care VHA hospitalizations. We observed that veterans withpsychotic disorders were significantly more likely to experience three PSIs (postoperativerespiratory failure, postoperative wound dehiscence, and decubitus ulcer) than those without

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