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Using Teamstepps® To Improve Interprofessional Collaboration In The Outpatient Psychiatric Care Setting, Amy Michele Wadsworth
Using Teamstepps® To Improve Interprofessional Collaboration In The Outpatient Psychiatric Care Setting, Amy Michele Wadsworth
Doctoral Dissertations and Projects
The AACN has identified in their QSEN competencies that collaborative teamwork and patient-centered care are two qualities that skilled nurses must exhibit to provide high-quality care. The IOM has made a call to action that healthcare professionals must exhibit patient-centered care in interdisciplinary team settings to achieve high-quality care. At a community resource program in the mid-Atlantic region, a recent qualitative job satisfaction survey revealed that employees identified issues with interprofessional collaboration and a lack of teamwork at the facility. Using the Iowa Model, this EBP project involves the use of a cohort study with a pretest-posttest design, where the …
Intensive Care To Intermediate Care Bridge Program, Natasha Bartlett, Sally Langerak, Lindsey Lucas, Jonathan Archibald, Tayla Robbins, Miranda Thompson, Patrice Tetu, Calla Hastings, Megan Garland, Suneela Nayak, Stephen Tyzik, Ruth Hanselman, Amy Sparks
Intensive Care To Intermediate Care Bridge Program, Natasha Bartlett, Sally Langerak, Lindsey Lucas, Jonathan Archibald, Tayla Robbins, Miranda Thompson, Patrice Tetu, Calla Hastings, Megan Garland, Suneela Nayak, Stephen Tyzik, Ruth Hanselman, Amy Sparks
Operations Transformation
To deliver the highest quality of care across the continuum, a large academic tertiary medical center envisioned a project that would provide an internal source of cross trained nurses for their medical intensive care unit (SCU2) and their medical intermediate care unit (R4/IMC/AVU). The hope for this program was to improve communication and collaboration between nurses and enhance the care that they provide to patients and their families.
A highly qualified team of nurses was established to create a performance improvement project. The overall goal of this endeavor was to build a more collaborative relationship between the units and ultimately …
Clarifying Model For Continuity Of Care: A Concept Analysis, Sarah J. Bahr, Marianne E. Weiss
Clarifying Model For Continuity Of Care: A Concept Analysis, Sarah J. Bahr, Marianne E. Weiss
College of Nursing Faculty Research and Publications
Aim
The aim is to clarify the use of the term continuity in the specific context of acute care hospitalization and discharge.
Background
The meaning of “continuity” is often co‐mingled with other concepts, specifically coordination and communication. To increase usefulness for contemporary concerns with the hospitalization‐postdischarge continuum, continuity of care is examined from the specific context of acute hospitalization and discharge.
Design
Concept analysis.
Data Sources
Medline via Ovid, Cochrane Library, Cinahl, and Google Scholar. Search years encompassed 2001–2016.
Review Methods
Rodgers evolutionary concept analysis method.
Results
A total of 50 papers were included in this concept analysis. Synthesis of …