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Code Gray Response Team, Charlie A. Brizzee

IPS/BAS 495 Undergraduate Capstone Projects

This video presentation addresses the declining feeling of safety by frontline clinical staff due to the recent escalation of combative patients and workplace violence in the healthcare setting, identified through Emotional intelligence and the approach created to address it. This project was crafted as an innovative and creative approach to addressing the issue in the clinical setting without adding additional staff or additional expense to the organization. Additionally, the approach had to be innovative and creative as the author does not own the current process, and knowing to receive stakeholder acceptance, the ownership had to remain with the current stakeholder. …

Developing Organizational Support And Leadership Structures For Advanced Practice Nurses In The Hospital Setting, Andrea L. Childress

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

Background: Hospitals are increasing utilization of advanced practice nurses (APNs). APNs do not fit within the traditional nursing or medicine department structures. They are often hired by organizations without full evaluation and assessment of management issues and structures to support them.

Problem: APNs are employed to work throughout an acute care hospital. They report to medical leadership but have no voting rights or representation on medical committees. They lack connection to nursing staff and existing structures which impairs their ability to exhibit leadership and advance nursing practice.

Purpose: This project seeks to answer: What organizational support and leadership structures are …

Redesign Of A Medical Crash Cart, Jozey Mitcham, Brittany Ireland, Tyler Towner, Scott Winston

College of Engineering Poster Presentations

For the 2011/2012 school year at Boise State University, the health science department has requested that a Mechanical Engineering senior design project be focused around the redesign of a medical crash cart. A crash cart, more commonly known as a code cart, is a set of trays, drawers, and shelves on wheels used in hospital emergency rooms for the transportation and dispensing of emergency supplies and equipment for use in cardiac emergencies. The current crash cart design is top heavy, unstable, inefficient, unorganized, and unsafe. In an attempt to increase functionality, efficiency, and safety, a new design is being developed …