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Nurse Sensitive Indicators

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The nurse sensitive indicator is measured by The National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI). Pressure ulcer prevalence is one of the nurse-sensitive indicators measured. It’s branched into community acquired, hospital acquired and unit acquired. Through unit base pilot testing, the data is able to be collected and measured. This organization has a skin committee who goes to each patient in the hospital with a pressure ulcer and assesses the condition that’s reported back to the committee for further analysis. They also have developed a new position in the hospital that consist turn team members. These individuals are staffed throughout the hospital 24 hours a day and turn each patient that’s on the turn team list every two hours.

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