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Making The Management Of Acute Otitis Media A Snap, Cassandra Newell, Donna Wyly, Tanis Stewart, Alaina N. Burns, Brian R. Lee, Rana El Feghaly

Posters

AIM:

To improve Watchful Waiting or Safety Net Antibiotic Prescription (WW/SNAP) in children >6 months old diagnosed with acute otitis media by Advanced Practice Nurses in the Emergency Department by May 2020.

Decreasing Length Of Stay In Pediatric Urgent Care With Electronic Discharge Instructions, Jennifer Wooster, Aimy Patel, Brian R. Lee, Amanda Nedved

Posters

Time spent waiting in the urgent care clinic is dissatisfying for patient and staff. This "wasted time" accounted for more than 52% of the urgent care visit at our urgent care.

The aim of our project is to decrease length of stay by 10 minutes by April 30, 2019 for all patients discharged from Blue Valley Urgent Care by offering patients a paperless depart process. To be eligible for discharge without paper families must be enrolled in the online patient portal.

Electronic discharge instructions significantly decrease length of stay and is associated with improved patient experience scores. Patients who received …

Acquiring Blood Pressures On High Risk Sepsis Patients In The Ed, Mckenna Scharlau, Jacob Schneider

Nurse Presentations

Describes a project to improve use of the Sepsis Tool in the Emergency Department and to improve documentation of blood pressure measurements in high risk sepsis patients under three years of age.

Sepsis: Triage Triggers, Outcomes Quicker, Rylee Ainge, Mackenzie Flaws, Natalie Heim, Emily Herndon, Hayley Norris, Amy Scott

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