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Initiation of a HIV screening protocol and pathway in the emergency department: A quality improvement initiative
(11/9/2017)
There is currently a nationwide campaign to address human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention and treatment. The emergency department (ED) is a significant venue in the HIV prevention and treatment campaign. The quality ...
Introducing a pediatric respiratory assessment tool in a pediatric ED
(2017-12-05)
Purpose: The pediatric asthma patient presenting to the Emergency Room requires prompt and reliable assessment leading to timely treatment. Our current Emergency Severity Index (ESI) triage scoring system is not specific ...
Accelerating care using a standardized protocol for psychiatric emergency patients
(2017-12-05)
Session D presented Friday, September 15, 2017
Purpose: Behavioral health (BH) complaints are a component in one out of every eight emergency department visits. With the closing of many inpatient psychiatric beds, ...
Providing nasal naloxone spray to high risk emergency department patients
(2017-12-05)
Poster presentation, Session E presented Friday, September 15, 2017
Purpose: To address knowledge gaps and negative attitudes towards patients with substance use disorders (SUDs) and to collect information to inform a ...
Emergency department throughput: Immediate bedding to reduce throughput times
(2017-12-05)
Purpose: The purpose of this project was to decrease front-end throughput times at Houston Methodist St. John Emergency Department (ED) by direct bedding patients until all beds are full.
Design: This was a quality ...
Using the EBP sepsis bundle to decrease ED mortality
(2017-12-04)
Purpose: Sepsis is the leading cause of death in non-coronary intensive care units and the tenth leading cause of death in the United States overall. One in one-hundred eighty five Americans were expected to be ...
Advancing disaster nursing: Disseminating a critical initiative
(2017-12-04)
Session I presented Saturday, September 16, 2017
Purpose: The Society for the Advancement of Disaster Nursing” (SADN) was formed in 2016 to advance solutions to the complex issues surrounding disaster nursing ...