Question

•Describe the importance of making data-driven decisions. •Explain a decision your current or former nurse leader made and how this decision impacted the healthcare organization. •As a nurse leader, you have received information about an executive administrative decision from the board of trustees that you believe is likely to be unpopular. Formulate a plan to share this decision with the nursing staff.

Answer 1

• Data driven decisions are important in health care system to save time and energy
• It is a systematic process of collecting, analyzing and synthesizing data which promotes judgement of a particular approach towards patients and its outcomes
• It promotes Nursing research and follow Evidence Based Practice
• It helps health care team to determine, whether, the needs of patients are met or not
• It helps Nursing Leaders to promote Infection control practice
• It evaluates nursing practices
• It helps to determine the best approach towards the patients
• It provides resources at appropriate time
• Nursing Services can be evaluated by patient survey satisfaction
• Data driven decision helps to determine the appropriate Nurse patient ratio, and therefore shortage of staffs will be decreased
• It helps to identify causes that affects the delivery of care
• Data decision making helps team leaders to evaluate nurses individually. Appropriate training can be provided for nurses , if they lack skills by evaluating bench marks, patient complaints, patients satisfaction survey.
• An example is patients confidentiality. A patient diagnosis should be confidential between a patient and health care team. The main confidential aspects such as results of investigations to diagnosis should available in data and can be process only the nurses who are looking after the patient
• Another example is infection control. By the help of data, our nursing manager decided to stop increasing family and relative visits to the patient that causes infection, but provided with particular time only
• To reach an unpopular decision to nurses, Call a meeting with all nurses and nursing managers, have a discussion with all, check the limits, dtermine the skills of each nurses, formulate a particular team with a team leader, provide training if necessary, if any nurse finds difficult, meet her individually. Take appropriate action. Follow democratic leadership. Avoid autocratic approach.