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Implementation Of Daily Nhppd Calculator In The Acute Care Setting, Spencer Y. Cho
Implementation Of Daily Nhppd Calculator In The Acute Care Setting, Spencer Y. Cho
Student Scholarly Projects
Practice Problem: In the United States, it is estimated that hospitalized patients experience an adverse event that require a rapid response and/or code blue event in 3% to 18% of hospitalizations.
PICOT: In the adult medical-surgical inpatient (P), does the implementation of a daily NHPPD calculator (DNC) (I) compared to an annual staffing methodology for calculating NHPPD (C) reduce rapid response calls, code blue episodes, and unplanned admission to critical care (O) over 8 weeks (T).
Evidence: Seven studies provided evidence that implementation of staffing methodology, nursing surveillance, and nurse staffing that supports meeting targeted nursing hours per patient …
Implementation Of The National Early Warning Score Tool In The Acute Care Setting, Amanda Reyes
Implementation Of The National Early Warning Score Tool In The Acute Care Setting, Amanda Reyes
Student Scholarly Projects
Practice Problem: The organization arbitrarily called a rapid response or code blue call based on abnormal vital signs or intuition and needed a new process to identify early recognition of patient deterioration.
PICOT: For adult inpatients in an acute care setting in a large healthcare system (P), will implementation of the National Early Warning Score (NEWS) across the organization (I) compared to data from the last fiscal year where NEWS was not used (C) decrease code blue calls (O) within 8-weeks (T)?
Evidence: Eleven high quality studies met the inclusion criteria and found that the NEWS is a validated …