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

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).