Question

How can COPD management bundles in Health care IMPROVE nurse-sensitive quality indicators base answer on relevent 2013 to current, reliable sources please.

Answer 1

COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) is the third leading cause of death in world.Care bundles are believed to improve the quality of care for these patients.

It includes care at admission ,discharge and bundle of care in pneumonia.It ensures reliability in delivery of the health care.It reduces the wastages. It enables the clinical team to provide specific and needed care.

• The nurse could rule out the appropriate need of the patient and provide care.
• It provdes a standardised care and avoid variaton in treatment.
• It improves the pain management
• it improves patient satisfaction on nursing care and overall care
• It improves the involvement of all staff like RN, Unlicenced staff,LPN

Nursing sensitive indicators are elements of patient care directly affects the quality of nursing care

There are three types of indicators which can improve health care on COPD patients

• Structure indicators: it includes the skills ,supply,education and certification of the nursing staff
• Process indicators:it includes patient assessment and nursing intervention
• Outcome indicators: these are nursing sensitive as it involves the quality of nursing care directly

It has an responsibility to measure, evaluate and improve the quality of nursing service