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The contribution of nursing
to professional nursing practice is the American Nurses Association (ANA) Board
of Directors instituted the Nursing’s Safety & Quality Initiative in 1994 (ANA, 1999). According to
the study from Quigley (2003), “a coordinated and comprehensive system for
patient safety has not existed”. So, this have drawn the attention of many
organizations to the need for the development and support of an integrated and
comprehensive system that identifies and manages medical errors and rewards health
care systems for positive outcomes. Nursing’s Safety & Quality Initiative
gave direction to the study of the impact of these changes on safety and
quality of patient care as well as nursing. National Database of
Nursing-Sensitive Quality Indicators (NDNQI) created where this is the
indicators that capture care or its outcomes most affected by nursing. The
purpose of the NDNQI was to promote and facilitate the standardization of
information submitted by hospitals across the United States on nursing quality
and patient outcomes. Regarding to the study about the importance of patient
safety there has been a convergence of thought among professional, private, and
governmental health care decision makers that agree that patient safety will be
a top priority agenda item for health care providers now and in the future. All
groups have validated the demand for improvement in patient safety. So, when the patient safety become the
priority in nursing practice it has the potential to decrease the risk of
malpractice.
In Malaysia, nursing contribution is in the
nursing knowledge and skill required to sustain the quality of care. In the
past, the nurses in Malaysia only have certificate in nursing. But then, when
they realize the importance of knowledge in nursing, nursing education improved
to degree, where they learn theory and not only skill in nursing. This is to
improve their quality of care and can practice based on evidence-based
practice.
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