Nurse-Sensitive Indicators

This document discusses the significance of nurse sensitive indicators in relation to patient outcomes. It explores clinical quality indicators, patient satisfaction, and nursing satisfaction. It also provides a plan of care that includes structure, process, and outcome indicators. References are included.

Nurse-Sensitive Indicators

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Significance of nurse sensitive indicators in relation to patient outcomes..................................3
Create a plan of care....................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

Significance of nurse sensitive indicators in relation to patient outcomes
Nursing sensitive indicators (NSIs) can be measured and its indicator which reflects the
structure, processes and results of nursing care. There are three major indicators such as clinical
quality, patient satisfaction and nurse satisfaction etc, essential to measure reflect and impact of
nursing care on the patient outcomes.
There is an example to understand role of nursing sensitive indicators in patient outcomes such
as a patient who suffers from autoimmune disease in that state nurses practices their nursing
sensitive indicator to treat patient and leads best result in the health (MacPhee, Dahinten &
Havaei, 2017)
Clinical quality nursing sensitive indicators
It is primary indicator where nurses initially detect disease in the patient by conducting
several tests like Blood test, Urinalysis test, Autoantibody tests and Comprehensive metabolic
panel. The result of overall tests is enlisted by nurse as reference to compare with upcoming
resources. In addition, nurse provides different care services to patient like formulary compliance
and patient compliance on time. The primary role of nurse sensitive indicators is to communicate
with patient effectively to lead then in comfortable zone instead of panic.
Patient satisfaction
It is second nursing sensitive indicator where nurse keeps their test on doctor instruction
and provides information to patient about their disease which helps the patient to keep care of
their health effectively. Nurses also helps supports patient to manage pain while doing physical
exercise and others. Autoimmune disease patient needs nurse care every day because they get
different type pains i.e. muscular pain, heart pain, headache and autoimmune allergy which
occurs due to drug interaction. Where nurse provides quality care services to patient on time that
maintains wellbeing of patient and leads effective outcomes in the patient health.
Nursing satisfaction
It is third indicator of nurse sensitive indicators which is quite different from medical
nursing staff because they offer care services to get value-based result in the patient health and
believes in quality instead quality of test. While medical nursing staff has mean to give quantity

of test which provides to patient and they have goal to offer medication services instead of care.
Autoimmune disease patient gets good outcomes in their health which leads satisfaction in
nursing staff because they promote for reward based on the quality of care (Parr, J. M. 2018)
Create a plan of care
There are three steps which are emerged in nursing care plan such as structure, process
and outcomes.
Structure indicators:
It encompasses supply of nursing staff, skill level of nursing staff and education and
certification level of nursing staff etc. because when they are highly skilled and contains value-
based knowledge then can understand need of patient and can offer appropriate services. So, it is
need for develop the plan (Mushta, Rush & Andersen, 2018, January).
Process indicators
It is another indicator which is required for the care plan because it includes number of
techniques which are used by nursing staff for patient assessment and nursing interventions.
Nursing staff job satisfaction is also considered in the care plan.
Outcome indicators
Patient outcomes reflects nursing sensitive indicators because it is dependent on the
quantity or quality of nursing care. it includes patient satisfaction, patient ulcers etc. type practice
which measure outcomes of patient. So, this step is also included in the care plan to measure
outcomes of health by care services.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
MacPhee, M., Dahinten, V. S., & Havaei, F. (2017). The impact of heavy perceived nurse
workloads on patient and nurse outcomes. Administrative Sciences. 7(1). 7.
Mushta, J., L. Rush, K., & Andersen, E. (2018, January). Failure to rescue as a nurse‐sensitive
indicator. In Nursing forum (Vol. 53, No. 1, pp. 84-92).
Parr, J. M. (2018). The Relationship Between Engagement and Charge Nurse Manager
Leadership, the Leadership Relationship, Practice Environment and Patient
Outcomes (Doctoral dissertation, Auckland University of Technology).