Why follow-up?
Why to follow-up nursing-sensitive quality of care?
All nursing professionals are responsible for the quality of nursing care. Clinical nursing personnel comply with evidence-based practice, produce quality data e.g. via structured nursing documentation and follow up the outcomes of care which they have contributed to.
Nursing leaders use information about quality of nursing care in decision-making (regarding, for example, resource allocation and confirmation of adequate competence). In Finland, however, we do not have an official register to follow-up and benchmark nursing-sensitive quality of care, such as the National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators in the US.
What is the purpose of the Consortium?
The objectives to follow-up and benchmark nursing-sensitive quality of care are:
To support nursing leadership
To generate benchmarked data of nursing-sensitive quality indicators for decision-making and follow-up.
To support nursing staff
To foster nursing staff’s knowledge of outcomes of one’s work; thus, to foster quality assurance in clinical nursing care.
To support nursing profession
To enable benchmarking in nursing and sharing best nursing practices.
To identify potential quality gaps for development, research and education purposes.
To ensure quality and safety for the patients and clients
To make the patient (client) care outcomes visible and comparable.
To ensure safe, effective and best possible care for the patients and clients.
