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Improving Interdepartmental Care Collaboration For Pregnant Patients, Michelle Anne Ott
Improving Interdepartmental Care Collaboration For Pregnant Patients, Michelle Anne Ott
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Communication is vital to improve patient care outcomes, especially with high acuity patients. Pregnant patients differ from other patient populations because their care involves 2 entities: the patient (mother-to-be) and her unborn fetus. There has been a noted gap in communication and care collaboration between the emergency department (ED) and obstetric (OB) teams at the project site, resulting in delays for patients and lack of appropriate maternal/fetal assessment and contributing negatively to patients' experiences. Using transitions theory and the Rosswurm and Larrabee model, a clinical practice guideline (CPG) inclusive of an obstetrically focused algorithm was developed and presented for use …
Screening For Depression During The Early Perinatal Period, Loretta Ann Donnelly-Moreno
Screening For Depression During The Early Perinatal Period, Loretta Ann Donnelly-Moreno
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
The clinical practice guideline (CPG) is the implementation of a depression screening tool to be used in the early perinatal period. The practice change occurred in a rural Obstetrical and Gynecological (OBGYN) practice in the southern United States. The CPG change has been guided by recommendations from both the American Congress of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the American College of Nurse Midwives. Implementation of this CPG change addresses the gap in practice of not doing depression screening during the perinatal period, and only screening during the postpartum period, which was being done at the OBGYN office. Theorist Lewin’s ‘change theory’ …