Nursing Audit
Nursing Audit
Nursing Audit
DEFINITION
-Elison
PURPOSES
• Contributes to research
METHODS OF NURSING AUDIT
1. Retrospective View
Step 1
Standard comprise two elements that defined the contest for care
and how care is delivered
Step 3:
Step 4:
Decide and Implement action. This is the hardest area to address and involves
the input from the whole team. An action plan needs to be developed.
Step 5
Review standards.
It will give valuable and pertinent information for the staff,
improvement in quality of nursing as well as strengths and
weaknesses in nursing service are revealed.
It will lead to better cooperation and communication among the
nurses and health team members as a result of improved quality of
nursing notes.
It will help each professional nurse for her self evaluation.
• Outcomes are the end results of care; the changes in the patients health
status and can be attributed to delivery of health care services.