Empowering Nurses to Engage With Transplant Quality Data and Outcomes.

Area of Science:

• Healthcare Quality Improvement
• Nursing Education
• Organ Transplantation

Background:

• Effective use of patient outcome data and quality improvement metrics is crucial for healthcare teams to guide practice and target interventions.
• Challenges in data utilization include time constraints, difficulty in interpretation, and connecting data to clinical practice.

Purpose of the Study:

• To assess the impact of a multimodal intervention on acute care nurses' ability to interpret organ transplant quality data and outcomes.
• To improve the accuracy of transplant quality data interpretation and staff confidence in understanding these metrics.

Main Methods:

• A survey identified low scores in training and time for data interpretation among nurses caring for organ transplant patients.
• A multimodal intervention was implemented, including an educational session and routine posting of quality data.
• Intervention goals were to achieve 90% accuracy in data interpretation and a 6.0 confidence indicator score.

Main Results:

• The intervention successfully met all goals, with accurate interpretation improving to 90%.
• Average key confidence indicators increased from baseline to 6.54 (out of 7.0).

Conclusions:

• A collaborative, interdisciplinary approach involving stakeholders is vital for successful quality improvement initiatives.
• The implemented method can be replicated for nurses and other frontline staff to enhance data-driven practice.