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Reducing Alarm Burden By Promoting Judicious Ordering Of Continuous Pulse Oximetry, Kathleen Berg, David Johnson, Ginny Nyberg, Andrew Ausmus, Christine Claeys, Emily Wilkinson, Nicholas Clark
Reducing Alarm Burden By Promoting Judicious Ordering Of Continuous Pulse Oximetry, Kathleen Berg, David Johnson, Ginny Nyberg, Andrew Ausmus, Christine Claeys, Emily Wilkinson, Nicholas Clark
Presentations
Background: Overutilization of continuous pulse oximetry (CPO) contributes to overdiagnosis and prolonged supplemental oxygen utilization. It may also negatively impact patient sleep, mobility, length of stay (LOS), and cost. Response times to actionable alarms increase with the number of non-actionable alarms. Our baseline data revealed an average of 29.6 pulse oximetry monitor alarms sounded for each admitted patient each day of their hospitalization. Most notably, 38.7% of pulse oximetry alarms were for ≥88% which is generally considered non-actionable.
Objective: We aimed to decrease both total pulse oximetry alarms per patient day and alarms for ≥88% per patient day by 20%, …
Assessing The Effects Of Social Determinants On Serious Safety Events, Lisa L. Schroeder, Jessi Van Roekel, John Cowden
Assessing The Effects Of Social Determinants On Serious Safety Events, Lisa L. Schroeder, Jessi Van Roekel, John Cowden
Posters
Background: We have long known that various social determinants of health (SDH) such as race, gender, socioeconomic status and others can affect health outcomes, such as readmission rates and mortality. To our knowledge, the impact of SDH on safety events has not been studied.
Objective: We sought to understand the role that social determinants may play in contributing to safety events at our institution and to incorporate this information into the creation of corrective action items following the serious safety event.
Design/Methods: The Clinical Safety team partnered with the Office of Equity and Diversity to develop a standard question regarding …
Nursing: Global Impact Increases Healthcare Effectiveness, Madison Slacktish
Nursing: Global Impact Increases Healthcare Effectiveness, Madison Slacktish
Student Research Poster Presentations 2021
The discipline of nursing has a major impact on the world globally. Research has found when nurses collaborate across boarders, then patient outcomes tend to increase. Disease does not stop because there is a boarder from one country to the next. Therefore, worldly collaboration has positive influences on how nurse's practice and ways to change protocols to increase better patient outcomes.
Community Health Interventions To Reduce The Burden Of Radon-Related Lung Cancer, Benjamin Weaver
Community Health Interventions To Reduce The Burden Of Radon-Related Lung Cancer, Benjamin Weaver
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
Exposure to radon is the second leading cause of lung cancer in the United States. One in seven homes in Vermont has elevated levels of radon, but most patients are unaware of radon as a risk factor for lung cancer or that radon testing and mitigation services are available to them. To promote increased testing and mitigation of radon we screened patients presenting to a Family Medicine practice in Vermont about whether they had had these services done in their home. We also developed a patient education resource for providers to give to patients who had more questions about radon …