Organizational Systems and Quality Leadership Task 1 Western Governors University nizational Systems and Quality Leadership Task 1

A. Understanding of Nursing Quality Indicators As professional, it is the nurses duty to provide safe and effective care to patients in all situations. Nursing Quality Indicators have been established to act as guidelines, or benchmarks, to evaluate that care against a standard and to show that what is being done is not actually doing harm. In certain situations, these indicators can also be used to determine monetary reimbursement for Medicare or insurance, such as with CAUTIs, for example. In the given situation with Mr. J there are several examples where quality standards fail to be reached. Because of his dementia Mr. J has been restrained...