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Use Of Personalized Patient Heart Diagrams At The Bedside To Improve Quality Of Care, Melissa D. Elliott
Use Of Personalized Patient Heart Diagrams At The Bedside To Improve Quality Of Care, Melissa D. Elliott
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Title: Use of personalized patient heart diagrams at the bedside to improve quality of care
Background/Introduction: With congenital heart disease no two hearts are exactly the same. Even with the same lesion, the anatomy of the heart can be completely different. In response to a bedside nursing idea following a cardiac arrest, advanced practice nurses (APN) initiated a program to provide personalized cardiac anatomy diagrams at the bedside of every patient on the cardiology service.
Methods: When a cardiac patient is admitted to cardiology floor, the nurse will check the patients chart for an anatomy picture, then will place …