Nursing Book on How to Give the Best Health Care: Nursing Guide on Hospital Core Measures

by Jonathan Small, Sharron Weinberg and Associates (Editor)

This is a nursing guide that identifies nursing core measures/quality measures in an urgent care and hospital setting. What are the key interventions to meet core measures? What is important to document to meet quality measures? What do nurses need to do to meet health care quality measures? What are the new requirements health care requirements under Obama care? How can registered nurses give the best healthcare? What are the nursing fundamentals to meet hospital core measures?

This book answers all of the above questions. The book is written for registered nurses and medical professionals that work in an urgent care, acute care, or hospital environment. Nurses will get tips on what you need to document when giving best practice urgent care. Government healthcare requirements under Obama Care, Affordable Care Act, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are discussed.

Nursing core measures for the following health care topics are discussed: Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI), Children's Asthma Care (CAC), Emergency Department (ED), Hospital-Based Inpatient Psychiatric Services (HBIPS), Heart Failure (HF), Pneumococcal Immunization (IMM-1), Influenza Immunization (IMM-2), Perinatal Care (PC), Pneumonia (PN), Stroke (STK), Substance Abuse (SUB), Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP), Tobacco Use (TOB), and Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis (VTE).

206 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 1, 2014