TITLE:
Establishing Standardized Nursing Quality Sensitive Indicators
AUTHORS:
Shumukh Mohammed Khulayf Alshammari, Hisham Abid Aldabbagh, Gharam Hulayyil Al Anazi, Abdullah Mohammed Bukhari, Majdi Al Sayed Mahmoud, Waleed Seif Eldin Mohamed Mostafa
KEYWORDS:
Standardized, Nursing, Quality, Sensitive, Indicators
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Nursing,
Vol.13 No.8,
August
28,
2023
ABSTRACT: This is a pilot research project was prepared to assess the impact of implementing essential standardized nursing quality sensitive indicators in monitoring, evaluating, and controlling the nursing services and activities which implemented in daily nursing care works with the patients in a health institute, aiming for emphasizing the concept of “nursing quality sensitive indicators” which is valuable to elaborate nursing care performance, and for continuous upgrading of daily nursing care, which hopefully will result in more beneficial outcomes, and lesser negative or undesirable outcomes in all aspects of nursing care, and consequently the health care process, particularly regarding patient safety, patient satisfaction and nursing performance improvement. This pilot research project for the essential standardized nursing quality sensitive indicators was applied in intensive care unit (ICU) department in Qurayyat general hospital, and resulted in excellent improvement of all outcomes correlated with the essential standardized nursing quality sensitive indicators. These essential standardized nursing quality sensitive indicators are hopefully be accepted and accredited by the higher health authorities as standardized nursing quality sensitive indicators in health institutes.