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Nursing Audits: Types and Importance

This document outlines nursing audits and rounds as part of core competency 2 for nurses. It describes nursing audits as the evaluation of nursing care through analysis of nursing records to assess quality of care. There are two types of nursing audits: internal audits done by nursing staff to continuously evaluate quality, and external audits done periodically by outside agencies. Nursing rounds are another core nursing activity where decisions are made and tasks allocated to aid daily ward operations, with nurses serving various roles like advocate, chaperone, and organizer.

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Nursing Audits: Types and Importance

This document outlines nursing audits and rounds as part of core competency 2 for nurses. It describes nursing audits as the evaluation of nursing care through analysis of nursing records to assess quality of care. There are two types of nursing audits: internal audits done by nursing staff to continuously evaluate quality, and external audits done periodically by outside agencies. Nursing rounds are another core nursing activity where decisions are made and tasks allocated to aid daily ward operations, with nurses serving various roles like advocate, chaperone, and organizer.

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Core Competency 2:

Participates in Nursing Audits and Rounds

Prepared By: Ate G

Nursing Audit
It is the evaluation of nursing care through analysis of nursing records. An exercise to find out good nursing practice. Uses a record as an aid in evaluating the quality of patient care.

TYPES OF NURSING AUDIT:


1. Internal Auditing
- Consist of abstracting and classifying clinical records and evaluating quality of care for client. - Done continously (Nursing staff)

2. External Auditing
- performs an audit on the financial statements of a hospital (including Tax).

- Periodically done by medical administrator from professional bodies or agencies.

Internal Audit
Retrospective Audit - examines the nursing care as it is reflected in the patient care records for discharged patients. - also known as closed chart audit.

Concurrent Audit - Evaluation is conducted on behalf of patient who are still undergoing care. - Used to assess the past and present care given to a client. - Also known as open chart Audit.

Peer Review - It appraise quality of care or practice performed by others equally qualified nurses. Types: 1. Individual peer review focuses on
the performance of individual nurse.

2. Nursing

focuses on evaluating nursing care through review of records.

audit

Nursing Rounds
An established but sometimes fragmented, core activity of in patient care during which decision are made and tasks allocated that aid the daily running of wards.

Nurses role during rounds:


1. Advocate 2. Chaperone 3. Transitions 4. Informative 5. Organizer

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