1. Share what you had expected to learn about the topic before beginning the unit. This week I expected to learn about improvement strategies in nursing because that was the title of the module.
2. What you actually learned from the unit. This week I learned about benchmarking and the ways that these strategies can help improve nursing cares on hospital units by comparing to other units or facilities. I also learned about hospital balanced scorecards which help to set goals for healthcare workers to improve their standards of care.
3. Discuss your feelings/experiences from the activities (individual and team)? I enjoyed the discussion this week because I did not know a lot about benchmarking and researching as well as seeing what others on my team said helped me to gain a better understanding of the benchmarking tool. I also liked the case study this week because it was applicable to my current job and made me think about the things that I should change in my nursing care in order to reduce the risk of my patients getting catheter induced UTI's.
4. How you will utilize the information learned in your nursing practice. I will utilize this information by noticing different benchmarks, goals and targets that are in place in my current line of work. Prior to this unit I had not noticed these but after this unit I feel it is really important for me to recognize these so I can implement these into my nursing practice. This could also help my facility because I would be able to point things out that have changed in the standard of care, especially related to urinary catheter insertion and care.
5. You personal feelings about the material covered. Personally, I felt like this unit was beneficial because I am very much a goal oriented person and now knowing about benchmarking I will be able to use this aspect of my personality to better my nursing skills.
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