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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 ...
Code stroke
(2017-12-05)
Purpose: The objective was to decrease ED door to CT and lab turnaround time to results to less than or equal to 45 minutes, improve the percentage of tests resulted in under 45 minutes to 85% or greater and decrease ...
Blood culture contamination in the emergency department
(2017-12-05)
Purpose: Current best practice for collecting blood cultures is to divert the first 1-2ml of blood, so to send the micro-organisms away from the blood culture tubes that will be tested. Residing in the deeper dermis layer ...
Improving ScannED medications
(2017-12-04)
Purpose: Barcode medication verification has been proven to be an effective safety measure to help prevent errors during medication administration. It is necessary to provide safe medication administration to ensure quality ...
Trauma simulations: Beyond the emergency department
Purpose: The Emergency Department interacts with many other hospital departments when caring for a critically injured patient. Successful communication between these departments can improve patient care and throughput. The ...
Implementation of an opioid reduction protocol utilizing alternatives for the treatment of pain in the emergency department of a level 1 trauma center
(2017-12-04)
Purpose: Pain is the number one reason for emergency department visits in the United States. Many ED physicians find it quick and effective to prescribe opioids for patients that present complaining of pain. In many cases, ...
Medication reconciliation completed by pharmacy on admission from the ED
(2017-12-04)
Purpose: Medication reconciliation should be performed at all transitions of care according to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and AHRQ Patient Safety Network. A recent systematic review on errors in medication ...
Discharge lounge and the journey to excellence in patient satisfaction
(2017-12-04)
Purpose: Our Emergency Room (ER) patient satisfaction baseline scores related to discharge instructions for FY 2016 were at 43.31%. Our fiscal year goal, however, was to receive a score of 51% (75th percentile) with ...
Immersive education: evaluating virtual reality in clinical decision-making
(2017-12-05)
Purpose: Experiential learning in virtual reality offers students a way of learning that is active, participatory and unique. Virtual reality (VR) enables active learning within a theoretical framework of ‘situated ...
Quality improvement through improved documentation
(2017-12-05)
Purpose: To optimize practice standards in accordance to regulatory requirements the organizational policy for Emergency Department (ED) documentation was created. The Quality Improvement (QI) project focused on application ...