National Quality Forum (NQF) Endorsed Nursing-Sensitive Care Performance Measures

The Implementation Guide for the National Quality Forum (NQF) Endorsed Nursing-Sensitive Care Performance Measures (Guide) provides detailed specifications for the 15 national voluntary consensus standards for nursing-sensitive care endorsed by the NQF in January 2004.  The project to develop this guide was undertaken by The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations through funding provided by  the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), with the guidance of an advisory panel which included the measure developers (for additional information please see the Introduction and Background section in the Guide). The Joint Commission is pleased to make this Guide publicly available for use by interested organizations.
 
NOTE: In January, 2007 the Joint Commission received funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to conduct testing of the NQF Endorsed Nursing-Sensitive Care Performance Measures. This testing, currently underway, may involve updates to the Implementation Guide. However, any specification changes will not be finalized and publicly available until early 2009, after study completion. 

Information is also available on the current National Quality Forum (NQF) Endorsed Nursing-Sensitive Care Performance Measures Project.