{"id":9488,"date":"2015-07-08T12:47:50","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T12:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inscol.com\/india\/?p=2787"},"modified":"2022-10-11T05:59:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T05:59:04","slug":"quality-in-nursing-a-simple-question-with-difficult-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inscol.com\/india\/blog\/quality-in-nursing-a-simple-question-with-difficult-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"Quality in Nursing : A Simple Question with Difficult Answer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some of the simplest questions have the most difficult answers. ‘What is quality?’<\/strong> ranks with the most difficult of them. Quality in other professions may be linked to tangible physical properties; however, in patient care quality is intangible. As said by Kitchenham, “Quality is hard to define, impossible to measure, easy to recognize.”<\/i> According to Peter F. Drucker, “Quality in a product or service is not what the provider puts in. It is what the customer gets out.”<\/i> As the largest group of healthcare professionals, nurses contribute in positive and negative ways to the healthcare quality problem. Nurses have intimate knowledge of patient needs and the continuous interactions nurses maintain with the patients and their families uniquely position them to positively influence their hospital experiences and resultant outcomes. The fact is the nurses play a central role in ensuring the quality of hospital care. While few reports were found in the professional literature regarding poor nursing quality; perceptions in decline of quality and understanding of quality among hospital nurses and patients have risen in recent years.<\/p>\n

Nurses now understand the reasons behind the unsatisfactory quality care of patients. Coupled with the shortage of nurses, the view persists that professional nurses are less involved in direct care of patients but rather seen occupied with administering medications or supervising. Trained nurse peer reviewers used a quality rating scale based on the nursing process to evaluate the overall quality of nursing care. Findings revealed that systematic variation in nursing care were linked to hospital type and geography. With the current approach of assigning some clinical responsibilities to unlicensed assistive personal, the nursing shortage and higher acuity in hospitals, one would suspect that these problems persist and may be even worse. Some of the nursing sensitive indicators of quality care given by American Nurses Association include:<\/p>\n