Nursing sensitive-outcomes refers to any results that come due to the effects caused by nurses while undertaking the day to day activities in ensuring that patient safety. It is the duty of clinicians ensures that they adhere to the code of ethics, although some circumstance results in undesired outcome. In addition, the said outcomes are due to the introduction of the Centers for Medicare Service and Medicaid (CMS). There are several sensitive-outcomes including; failure to rescue, Central Venous Line infections, and pressure ulcers (Wilson et al. 2013).
Failure to rescue; In the United States of America, most of the patients die in the hospital due to failure of nurses to save them. The rationale is that a bigger percentage of the patients visit the hospital that is already crowded, and each one needs attention from the nurses. Since the introduction of CMS, health care centers have experienced an influx of patients because of the medical coverage that allows treatment at the hospital. While the patient number increases, it means the nurses to patient’s ratio decreases, and this makes the clinicians spend a little time treating the clients hence others die as they wait for their turn.
Central venous line: CVC is the modern way of that nurses use to treat patients by administering drugs/medicine or for total parental treatment, but it comes with its effects. CVL infection poses challenges for both the nurses and the patients at the hospital because a bigger percentage of deaths at ICU results from this. CMS does not cover all the expenses, and this can lead to the infections that can take away the life of patients and also make the sick to lose hope on the health care providers. Third, are the pressure ulcers among patients who contribute to a number of deaths. The CMS added to this disease because the patients expect expectations is that the hospital bill will be cleared by the Medicaid only to realize that it was not paid in full (Carlson, 2012). Thus, causes them mental or psychological stress that lead causes ulcers.
Reference
Wilson, S., Bremner, A. P., Hauck, Y., & Finn, J. (2013). Evaluation of paediatric nursing- sensitive outcomes in an Australian population using linked administrative hospital data. BMC Health Services Research, 13(1), 1-14. doi:10.1186/1472-6963-13-396
Carlson, J. (2012). Caught in the middle. Under tough scrutiny from the CMS over which patients should be admitted for care, hospitals are frustrated--and patients are fighting back. Modern Healthcare, 42(20), 6.
