Improving Healthcare Performance through Data Collection and Reporting
Everyone knows that the healthcare environment is complex and is rapidly changing due to employees leaving the industry, new regulations and requirements and increasing demand for higher quality care. What is your organization doing to ensure optimal performance? As performance directly influences how a healthcare organization operates, has your organization identified and developed performance measures essential for positive patient outcomes? Measures for quality of care?

This 90 minute audio conference is designed to help you identify top strategies on how to gather data and report information to obtain organizational excellence. It has become critical for administrators to measure, improve and report performance.

Attend this interactive audio conference and learn:

• National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators Data Model
• Data Collection Process
• Research Methods
• Basic Statistics
• Using Performance Reports
• Uses for Performance Measure Reports

Presenter:
Nancy Dunton, PhD, Director, National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators at the School of Nursing, University of Kansas Medical Center

In Association With:



The University of Kansas Medical Center

About the Speaker

Dr. Dunton's research interests focus on systems research, especially the effects of nurse staffing on patient outcomes in acute and long term care settings. She is currently funded by the American Nurses Association as Principal Investigator on the National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI). Dr. Dunton also is a Co-principal investigator on a Study of the Survey Process for Kansas Nursing Homes funded by the Kansas Department of Aging. Past research has focused on the outcomes of welfare reform, outcome indicators of children’s well being, use of Census data and administrative data systems, and various survey research projects.
She is a Dissertation Co-chair, Dissertation committee member.