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Lean Healthcare from the institutional, professional, and patient perspectives
Lean is a management philosophy derived from the Toyota System, widely applied in the industry and adapted to the health area in order to reduce costs and optimize resources by reviewing processes to generate value for the ...
Operating room traffic and surgical site infections: A quality improvement project
The gap in practice was the excessive movement through the sub-sterile doors of the operating room. The Association of Perioperative Registered Nurses Guidelines for perioperative practice (2018) was used to guide the ...
Simulation to Improve the Clinical Nursing Instructor's Teaching of Ethics to Students in the Clinical Setting
(2016-08-11)
Ethics knowledge and skill is crucial to the discipline of nursing and is considered foundational knowledge for nursing practice (American Nurses Association [ANA], 2001). Nurses who assume roles in clinical teaching may ...
Reducing pokes in pediatrics through nurse-driven interventions
Poster presentationSession I presented Wednesday, October 2, 10:00-11:00 amPurpose: Nurses start 700-900 peripheral intravenous catheters (PIVs) every month in the ED. The challenges of dehydration, critical illness and/or ...
Effective onboarding of new graduate nurses using a preceptor/orientation nurse model
Poster presentationSession J presented Wednesday, October 2, 11:30 am-12:30 pmPurpose: Onboarding of new graduate nurses in a fast paced emergency department environment can be stressful in the critical thinking skills and ...
Simulation improves trauma care across the continuum
Poster presentationSession D presented Monday, September 30, 2:30-3:30 pmPurpose: To optimize care of traumatically injured patients, emergency department (ED) and intensive care unit (ICU) nurses must work cohesively as ...
Impact of protocol driven provider order sets on patient mortality and bundle compliance
Poster presentationSession D presented Monday, September 30, 2:30-3:30 pmPurpose: With an increasing number of patients being diagnosed with sepsis, there was a need for increased awareness, improved educational strategies, ...
Improving pediatric influenza vaccination through a quality improvement initiative in the ED
Poster presentationSession F presented Tuesday, October 1, 11:30 am-12:30 pmPurpose: Influenza affects over ten million children in the United States annually and results in significant morbidity, socioeconomic burden on ...
Development of an urgent access algorithm for children with sepsis
Poster presentationSession G presented Tuesday, October 1, 1:00-2:00 pmPurpose: Our institutional sepsis leadership team sought to improve key drivers to influence outcomes in pediatric sepsis. We prioritized the key drivers ...
Increasing the HPV Vaccination Rate in a Family Practice: A quality improvement project
(2017-05-19)
The purpose of this DNP project was to identify barriers in a family practice setting to recommending the HPV vaccine and to use this information to develop a practice protocol to enhance the delivery of the vaccine series. ...