Case Study #6 You Are Helping the Nursing Department to Write

Case study #6 You are helping the Nursing Department to write indicators, to determine appropriate formulas ratios and to determine data collection time frames. One important aspect of care is documentation of education of patients. More specifically, the nursing department would like assess its documentation of education on colostomy care for patients with new colostomies. Referring to Case Study #6, which of the following ratios would you recommend?

A) number of records with documentation of colostomy-care teaching total number of patients on surgery unit
B) number of records with documentation of teaching total number of discharges
C) number of records with documentation of colostomy-care teaching total number of patients with new colostomy
D) number of records reviewed with documentation of colostomy-care teaching total number of records reviewed