Access to Existing Databases on Patient Safety, Quality of Care, and Clinical Practice.

Post a description of one existing source of data you found with variables related to a patient quality and safety problem in your practice. Locate the data posted for your agency/facility. If you are unable to find this information for your agency, locate a national database that can be accessed by health professionals, e.g., Medicare Hospital Compare. (Data are also available for home health and nursing homes.) Include the citation and the link to use for web access. Identify three variables found in the database that are important in better understanding a patient safety problem. Explain how you would interpret the results and how they might help improve nursing practice and patient outcomes. Explain how data is used in your own agency, including nursing involvement in the process.Access to Existing Databases on Patient Safety, Quality of Care, and Clinical Practice.

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Access to Existing Databases on Patient Safety, Quality of Care, and Clinical Practice

Include the citation and the link to use for web access.

Medicare (2020). Good Samaritan Hospital: Overall rating details. https://www.medicare.gov/care-compare/details/hospital/050471?id=309a85f8-fa12-4803-b9dd-6efc6edaa97d&city=Los%20Angeles&state=CA&measure=hospital-overall-rating

Identify three variables found in the database that are important in better understanding a patient safety problem.

Three variables can be identified in the Medicare (2020) for better understanding the patient safety problem. The first variable is mortality. The facility’s performance is above the national average. Mortality is associated with implementation of patient safety improvement initiatives to include analysis of adverse events and medical errors that can be targeted to improve medical practices. Access to Existing Databases on Patient Safety, Quality of Care, and Clinical Practice.The second variable is readmissions. The facility’s performance is above the national average. Unnecessary readmissions are an indication that patients are receiving substandard care that does not meet their care needs so that they are discharged home with existing care needs that worsen so that they must be readmitted to get care. The third variable is safety of care. The facility’s performance is below the national average. Actions by medical personnel can expose patients to avoidable harms, such as long periods between nurse rounds so that patients end up developing pressure ulcers or letting the patients to visit the washroAccess to Existing Databases on Patient Safety, Quality of Care, and Clinical Practice.oms unassisted so that they experience falls (Fawcett, 2016).

Explain how you would interpret the results and how they might help improve nursing practice and patient outcomes.

The facility’s performance is above the national average for mortality and readmissions but below average for safety of care. This is an indication that while the facility is performing well for the two variables, it has poor performance for the third variable. This creates a need to implement strategies to improve performance in safety of care. If the facility reports high fall rates, then there is a need to implement interventions to reduce the fall rates, such as drying floors, providing patients with nonslip footwear, and assisting the patients to the washrooms (Bauer, 2017).Access to Existing Databases on Patient Safety, Quality of Care, and Clinical Practice.

Explain how data is used in your own agency, including nursing involvement in the process.

The facility makes use of data to improve its performance. Avoiding patient harm is an intrinsic responsibility of nurse personnel. Data management helps to address this concerns through three capabilities. Firstly, full integration capabilities that enables improvements across the care continuum. Secondly, proactive capabilities that makes use of predictive analytics to identify the interventions that would prevent and reduce harm to patients. It makes the information from risk triggers actionable by suggesting interventions and making them accessible to nurses. Thirdly, reactive capabilities that presents reactive triggers to address potential harms once they present through notifying nursing personnel in case the risks present (Wicker & Browning, 2020). Access to Existing Databases on Patient Safety, Quality of Care, and Clinical Practice.