title: Managing quality and compliance.
abstract: Critical care nurses assume vital roles in maintaining patient care quality. There are distinct facets to the process including standard setting, regulatory compliance, and completion of reports associated with these endeavors. Typically, multiple niche software applications are required and user interfaces are varied and complex. Although there are distinct quality indicators that must be tracked as well as a list of serious or sentinel events that must be documented and reported, nurses may not know the precise steps to ensure that information is properly documented and actually reaches the proper authorities for further investigation and follow-up actions. Technology advances have permitted the evolution of a singular software platform, capable of monitoring quality indicators and managing all facets of reporting associated with regulatory compliance.
authors.affiliation: Extraview Corporation, Scotts Valley, California (Mr Koppel).
authors.forename: Alice
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: McNeil
authors.forename: Carl
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Koppel
mesh_terms: D064648:Critical Care Nursing; D033161:Government Regulation; D019983:Guideline Adherence; D006801:Humans; D019221:Mandatory Reporting; D061214:Patient Safety; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D012984:Software / Q000191:economics; D014481:United States