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Purposeful Nurse Hourly Rounding: Plan To Decrease Patient Falls During A Pandemic, Robbie Masangkay
Purposeful Nurse Hourly Rounding: Plan To Decrease Patient Falls During A Pandemic, Robbie Masangkay
Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Projects
Problem: Patient falls remain a critical and persistent safety problem in healthcare today. The prolonged impact of the COVID-19 pandemic raises leadership concerns regarding the safe care of high-risk COVID patients and mitigating the increased stress and potential risks of infection to clinical staff.
Context: This Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) scholarly project details implementation of an evidence-based purposeful nurse hourly rounding (PNHR) pilot project designed to decrease the incidence of patient falls on a designated COVID-19 unit.
Measure: A modified PNHR rounding tool was implemented to guide focused elements for key nurse/patient interactions.
Interventions: …
Creating A Thriving Informatics Culture, Nicholas Webb
Creating A Thriving Informatics Culture, Nicholas Webb
Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Projects
Nurses thrive best when they are empowered to make decisions that can positively impact healthcare delivery. Knowledge and application of nursing informatics principles can influence clinical, quality, operational, and financial outcomes in ways that were not available in previous professional nursing generations.
If nursing informatics is the solution, what is the problem? A survey regarding use and attitudes about nursing informatics was taken of chief nurse executives (CNEs) at an integrated, not for profit healthcare system in the Northern California region, where the author oversees the electronic health record (EHR). The results were surprising. Half said they did not know …