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Motivated2move: Icu Liberation And Early Progressive Mobility In Ventilated Patients, Leslie S. Bigler
Motivated2move: Icu Liberation And Early Progressive Mobility In Ventilated Patients, Leslie S. Bigler
Master's Projects and Capstones
The Motivated2Move: ICU Liberation and Early Progressive Mobility in Ventilated Patients project was implemented in a 24-bed intensive care unit (ICU) in a 241-bed general care, stroke certified not-for-profit community hospital in northern California. The primary purpose of this project was to educate the nurses on the structure and implementation of the Society of Critical Care Medicine’s evidence-based ICU Liberation (ABCDEF) Bundle (Society of Critical Care Medicine, n.d.). A secondary purpose of this project was to coordinate an early progressive exercise and mobility protocol for all ventilated patients. The primary goal of the project is 100% compliance with the ICU …
Implemented Nurse Education To Improve The Effective Use Of The Sapphire Pca Pump: Achievement Of Quality Pain Control, Fanta Keita Zable
Implemented Nurse Education To Improve The Effective Use Of The Sapphire Pca Pump: Achievement Of Quality Pain Control, Fanta Keita Zable
Master's Projects and Capstones
The Sapphire ™ Infusion System Patient-Controlled-Analgesia (PCA) pump is a device that is used to administer high pain medication to manage a patient’s pain level after an invasive procedure such as surgery. In order to achieve this goal, nurses must be able to use the sapphire equipment efficiently to prevent medication overdose and underdose, as well as to preserve safety for both the patients and the nurses themselves. In addition, nurses must be able to document accurately on EPIC. The purpose of this project, led by the team of Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) students from the University of San Francisco, …
Reducing Alarm Fatigue In Critical Care, Janice A. Winfrey
Reducing Alarm Fatigue In Critical Care, Janice A. Winfrey
Master's Projects and Capstones
Reducing Alarm Fatigue in Critical Care
Abstract
This improvement project took place on the Critical Care Unit (CCU) of a non-profit hospital in Northern California. The unit houses 54 beds, employs over 210 employees, and houses the facility’s central cardiac monitoring station which utilizes unit staff. The objective was to improve patient safety through reducing the risk of alarm fatigue by decreasing the total number of clinical alarms on the unit. Specified goals included a 20% reduction in the number of alarms sounding on the unit with a 20% reduction in telemetry utilization. Goals were chosen based on unit assessment …