Question

Identify patient care issues that can affect quality of care. Identify gaps between current patient outcomes and desired patient outcomes. Identify the relationship between Nurse Sensitive Indicators and patient outcomes.

Answer 1

The medication errors, improper communication as well as the lack of patient educations are some crucial patient issues which affect the quality of the care. These can affect the patient outcomes and hence it is advised to healthcare professional to be trained and work on such issues to overcome it.

Gap in outcomes in the healthcare systems are the difference between the planned/expected/desired patient outcomes as well as the current patient outcomes. Such gap outcomes due to the lack of proper implementation of the planned therapy, medication errors as well as intersubject variability. To fill such gaps it is advised to have proper patient history and time to time observation for the desired results at each and every step of therapy involving all the healthcare professionals focusing the desired patient outcomes.

Nurse Sensitive Indicators denote the process, structure as well as the outcomes of the nursing practice. It also reflects the quality of the care in nursing and affects the patient outcomes.