Conabedian Quality Assessment Framework activity

As you begin to prepare this assessment you are encouraged to complete the Conabedian Quality Assessment Framework activity. Quality health care delivery requires systematic action. Completion of this will help you succeed with the assessment as you consider how the triad of structure (such as the hospital, clinic, provider qualifications/organizational characteristics) and process (such as the delivery/coordination/education/protocols/practice style or standard of care) may be modified to achieve quality outcomes.
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:
• Select a single nursing-sensitive quality indicator that you see as important to a selected type of health care system. Choose from the following list:
o Staffing measures.
 Nursing hours per patient day.
 RN education/certification.
 Skill mix.
 Nurse turnover.
 Nursing care hours in emergency departments, perioperative units, and perinatal units.
 Skill mix in emergency departments, perioperative units, and perinatal units.
o Quality measures.
 Patient falls.
 Patient falls with injury.
 Pressure ulcer prevalence.
 Health care-associated infections.
 Catheter-associated urinary tract infection.
 Central line catheter associated blood stream infection.
 Ventilator-associated pneumonia.
 Ventilator- associated events.
 Psychiatric physical/sexual assault rate.
 Restraint prevalence.
 Pediatric peripheral intravenous infiltration rate.
 Pediatric pain assessment, intervention, reassessment (air) cycle.
 Falls in ambulatory settings.
 Pressure ulcer incidence rates from electronic health records.
 Hospital readmission rates.
 RN satisfaction survey options.
 Job satisfaction scales.
 Job satisfaction scales – short form.
 Practice environment scale.
• Conduct independent research on the most current information about the selected nursing-sensitive quality indicator.