To prepare

For this Assignment, use the Dashboard located in this week’s Resources, to interpret the data and frame a nursing plan based on best practices.

• Review the Week 5 Assignment Rubric.
• Review the Resources that pertain to the NDNQI and use of dashboards
• Choose a Nurse-Sensitive Quality Indicator that needs improvement based on the data presented in the Dashboard. Reflect on how you would develop a nursing plan with suggestions on how to improve performance in the chosen area.
• Develop a nursing plan that outlines suggestions on how to improve performance in the chosen area.
• Provide at least three best practices from evidenced-based literature to support your nursing plan.

Assignment

• Draft a 3- to 4 page paper analyzing areas where there is good performance and areas of opportunity from the sample Dashboard.
• Analyze the data provided in the Dashboard and select an area of performance that needs improvement. Include information on why this area was chosen.
• Develop a nursing plan that includes suggestions on how to improve performance on the selected indicator. Be sure to provide at least three best practices from the evidenced-based literature to support your suggested nursing plan.
• Be sure to include an introduction and conclusion in your paper.