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Rehabilitation and Therapy

University of St Augustine for Health Sciences

Student Scholarly Projects

2022

Early mobilization

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Nurse-Led Intervention: Implementing Early Mobilization Of Patients In The Intensive Care Unit, Lou A. Hill Jul 2022

Nurse-Led Intervention: Implementing Early Mobilization Of Patients In The Intensive Care Unit, Lou A. Hill

Student Scholarly Projects

Practice Problem: Immobility of patients in the hospital intensive care unit can cause longer stays in the intensive care unit and the hospital. Evidence-based early mobilization of patients helps to reduce length of stay (LOS) and avoid many detrimental sequelae, leading to short and long-term debilitation.

PICOT: The PICOT question that guided this project was: In the adult medical and surgical intensive care units (P), how does implementation of a nurse-driven protocol for early mobility (I), affect the LOS in the intensive care units and the LOS in the hospital (O), as opposed to not using a protocol for early …

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