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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 ...
2017 Pathway Award® winner: UHCC employs Pathway to Excellence® standards and technology to facilitate safe, face-to-face hand-offs
(Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc., 2018-06)
The American Nurses Credentialing Center partners with sponsor Cerner to annually confer the $25,000 Pathway Award® to a Pathway to Excellence®-designated organization that demonstrates innovation and technology to enhance ...
Improving patient safety with the Stanley and Brown Suicide Safety Template
Background: The effect of safety planning for patients discharged from the emergency department (ED) with suicidal risk is not yet determined but using safety plans to mitigate suicidal behavior is regarded as best ...
Effective emergency department hand-off report for nurses
The purpose of the project is to promote evidence-based practice by developing an effective process during patient transfer to improve the quality of hand-off report from the emergency department (ED) nurse and the ...
The effect of an acuity tool on job satisfaction for medical-surgical nurses on a medical-observation unit
Background and Review of Literature: Job satisfaction and nursing stress are important aspects for an organization to investigate to reduce the amount of turnover and improve patient outcomes. Acuity tools can be used to ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 standardized 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...