title: Leveraging nurse-related dashboard benchmarks to expedite performance improvement and document excellence.
abstract: Using nursing quality benchmarks in operational dashboards and translating those data to drive performance excellence is a strategic imperative. Since access to unit-level, hospital-generated nurse-related benchmarks is an emerging arena, the authors provide an overview of aggregated trends and benchmarks gleaned from the California Nursing Outcome Coalition acute care database for 2 established nurse-related quality indicators-patient falls incidence and hospital-acquired pressure ulcer prevalence. Integrating these acute care benchmarks into clinical dashboards can be invaluable to clinicians, administrators, and policy makers who share a common commitment to expediting evidence-based improvement in patient care safety, outcomes, and excellence.
authors.affiliation: UCSF - Stanford Center for Research & Innovation in Patient Care, UCSF School of Nursing, San Francisco, Calif, USA. nancy.donaldson@nursing.ucsf.edu
authors.forename: Nancy
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Donaldson
authors.forename: Diane Storer
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.forename: Carolyn E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Aydin
authors.forename: M Linda Burnes
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Bolton
authors.forename: Dana N
authors.initials: DN
authors.lastname: Rutledge
mesh_terms: D000058:Accidental Falls / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D019985:Benchmarking; D002140:California / Q000453:epidemiology; D006757:Hospital Units / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009738:Nursing Service, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D010865:Pilot Projects; D003668:Pressure Ulcer / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D015995:Prevalence; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care; D018570:Risk Assessment