Clinical quality indicators: infection prophylaxis for total knee arthroplasty.

Clinical quality indicators have a strong influence on reducing the overall financial impact, improving the outcomes, and minimizing the adverse events among patients undergoing elective total knee arthroplasty. In today's era of healthcare reform and increasing healthcare costs, it is important for orthopaedic nurses to be aware of the vital role clinical quality indicators play in the perioperative and postoperative settings.

Informatics. Detecting risks in elderly patients taking NSAIDs.

Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are strongly associated with gastrointestinal bleeding among the elderly population. NPs may find the utilization of healthcare informatics beneficial when addressing adverse events such as this. The innovative healthcare information technology products available today assist with increasing the quality, safety, and efficiency of healthcare delivery.