Nursing Audit :: Hospiad

It has already been discussed, that nursing audit is a part of clinical audit. But because of the following nursing audit has been given special importance. With the implementation of CPA professional accountability to an enlightened public can no longer be ignored by nursing staff.

“Quality nursing care” has become essential on day to day functioning. Nursing audit is a way of ensuring quality nursing care. It is a process of examination scrutiny by qualified nursing personnel to identify, examine, or verify the performance of certain specified aspects of nursing care by using established criteria.

Nursing audit assists in:

1. Evaluating Nursing care given, 
2. Achieving deserved and feasible quality of nursing care,
3. Stimulating better nursing records maintenance,
4. Focuses on patient care provided and not on care provider,
5. Contributes to research in nursing.

Over all it helps to assess the extent of nursing care provided to patient in the world. Though the steps of audit are similar to clinical audit, the mode approach is slightly different as described in this presentation.

Nursing Services in (Hospital) :: Hospiad

Nurse is the hub of all activities in the hospital specially management of indoor services. She serves as a fulcrum, balancing on one side management of the word and patient care on the other side.

Nurse is responsible for provisioning services, ward sanitation and physical, emotional and psychological need of the patient. Because of her close proximity to the patient and relatives, her role is very important in qualitative care in the hospital.

Nurse is the in charge of the ward and successful ward management solely depends on her administrative, management and technical skills. Her very presence in the ward , smooth-ens the entire word environment.

This shows the importance of a nurse in patient care services in the hospital. In addition to nursing care nurses are also engaged in teaching, audit and research activities in the hospital.

In nutshell the nurse is the centre of all activities in the hospital. Hardly any service is there which can function without the support of nursing staff. Knowing the importance of a nurse in patient care, in this presentation we will discuss in short the planning, organization and management of nursing care services.