A nurse manager is preparing to talk to her staff about quality improvement at a staff meeting. Which statement below is a correct statement to share with her staff about quality improvement?

A. Barcoding, smart pumps and medication reconciliation have not yet proven helpful in reducing medical errors.
B. Outcome audits are used to measure how care was delivered to patients.
C. Examples of nurse sensitive indicators that can be monitored include fall rates, incidence of urinary tract infections, and hospital acquired pressure ulcers.
D. A root cause analysis is mainly conducted to determine who was at fault for a serious injury to a patient.

The correct option is B) Out come audits are used to measure how care was delivered to patients.  

Explanation:

Generally speaking, Audit is a tool for Quality Control.

It is a systematic and official examination of a record, process or account to evaluate performance.

In health care organization, an audit provides managers with a way of applying control process to determine the quality of service rendered.

Nursing audit is the process of analyzing data about the nursing process of patient outcomes to evaluate the effectiveness of nursing interventions.

Audit types commonly used in nursing quality control include process audit, outcome audit, and structure audit.

Lets consider what an Outcome Audit is:

Outcome audits is performed to see what results if any occurred as result of specific nursing intervention for patients.

Example of outcomes traditionally used to measure quality of hospital care include morbidity,  mortality and length of stay in the hospital by the patient attended to by the nurse.  

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