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Increasing Patient Safety using Positive Patient Identification and Bedside Specimen Scanning
(2017-01-19)
A hospital located in the Northeastern United States, has an opportunity to improve the number of specimens that are mislabeled. Mislabeled specimens increase costs, create patient inconvenience and can lead to unnecessary ...
Capturing the Effectiveness of the Registered Nurse in Ambulatory Care
(2016-02-25)
A quantum shift has occurred in the expectations for the provision of care when moving from the inpatient hospital setting to the outpatient ambulatory care setting. As health care systems merge with physician practice ...
Executive Leadership Rounding on Staff and Its Effect on Patient Satisfaction and Patient Outcomes
(2017-04-17)
It has been recognized in healthcare organizations across the country that there is a significant relation between organizational quality, improved patient outcomes, and the financial success of an organization. Through ...
Use Of Standarized Processes To Achieve Optimal Pre-Surgical Skin Asepsis
(2017-04-21)
Surgical site infections are a significant threat to patient safety, they increase patient mortality and morbidity, and increase health care expenditures. A pre-surgical protocol that implements two applications of 2% Chlorhexidine gluconate using prepackaged cloths is an evidence-based practice that kills and then prohibits the growth of potentially dangerous skin flora. The purpose of this project was to evaluate the effectiveness of 2% Chlorhexidine gluconate cloths when administered twice pre-surgically to reduce the incidence of surgical site infections and to improve pre-surgical documentation. The Iowa framework for quality improvement was used with results demonstrating that, while documentation remained an area for improvement, there was a significant decrease in surgical site infections over the comparison group.
Keywords: Surgical site infection, 2% Chlorhexidine gluconate cloths, Pre-surgical skin asepsis, Patient Safety, Teamwork, EMR Documentation...
Verification Methods of Nasogastric and Orogastric Tubes: Improved Patient Outcomes through Nurse Adherence to Practice Guidelines
(2017-01-09)
Although there are various methods that are used to confirm the placement of nasogastric (NG) and orogastric (OG) tubes prior to the administration of any substance, there is none that is used universally and with certainty ...
Interventions To Reduce Medication Errors
(2017-09-22)
Medication errors are the most commonly identified errors occurring in every healthcare setting costing billions of dollars per year. They have the potential to cause death to a patient or increase hospital length of stay. ...
Impact of Daily Electrocardiographic Electrode Changes upon Technical Related Cardiac Monitor Alarm Events
(2017-09-21)
Alarm fatigue occurs when excessive alarms cause nurses to disregard alarms posing a significant patient safety threat. This quality improvement project utilized the plan-do-check-act approach to examine the impact of daily ...
The Effectiveness of Newborn Safety Information and Acknowledgement in Preventing Inpatient Newborn Falls
(2017-09-19)
Newborn falls can occur in the immediate postpartum period. The purpose of this capstone project was to evaluate the effectiveness of the Newborn Safety Information and Acknowledgement tool in impacting inpatient newborn ...
Implementing Whiteboard use to eliminate unintended retained foreign objects
Poster presentation was on Thursday, May 2, 2019The aim of this project was to implement whiteboard use at the ambulatory surgical center to increase the accuracy of the manual surgical count process and eliminate the ...
The implementation of a designated alert team to improve patient safety and nursing staff perceptions of patient safety
Poster presentationSession E presented Tuesday, October 1, 10:00-11:00 amPurpose: This performance improvement project was designed to improve patient safety and nursing staff perception of patient safety by implementing ...